July 20 is the birthday of Hungarian painter, photographer and Bauhaus school professor LÁZLÓ MOHOLY-NAGY (1895-1946).
“To be a user of machines is to be of the spirit of this century. Machines have replaced the transcendental spiritualism of past eras."
László Moholy-Nagy was a Hungarian modernist artist, photographer, and visionary educator whose restless curiosity helped redefine the possibilities of art in the twentieth century. Born in 1895 and later a central figure at the Bauhaus, he championed a radical fusion of technology and aesthetics, arguing that artists should embrace new materials—light, metal, plastics, and the camera itself—to meet the modern world head‑on. His experiments in photograms, kinetic sculpture, and typographic design shaped the language of avant‑garde visual culture, while his founding of the New Bauhaus in Chicago carried those ideals into American art education. Moholy-Nagy’s work is a testament to the belief that creativity thrives when it engages directly with the tools and rhythms of contemporary life.
