Moholy-Nagy, Sibyl, 1903-1971
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Sibyl: architectural historian, critic, educator. Birthdate also cited as 1903. Died 1971. Laszlo: sculptor, designer, painter & photographer; Chicago, Illinois.
Sibyl was born Dorothea Maria Pauline Alice Sybille Pietzsche in Dresden, Germany. An actress in Berlin during her twenties, she used the stage name Sibyl Peech. Eventually she shifted to a career in the scenario office of the Tobis [Moving] Picture Syndicate where she met Moholy-Nagy in 1929. They married in 1932. Came to U.S. 1934. Laszlo taught at Walter Gropius's first Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, 1920's, and was one of the founders of the Institute of Design, Chicago, 1939.
From the description of Sibyl and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy papers, 1918-1971. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220170921
Biographical Chronology
From the guide to the Sibyl Moholy-Nagy Collection, 1909-1970, (University of California, Santa Cruz. University Library. Special Collections and Archives)
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Subjects:
- Architectural criticism
- Architectural historians
- Architecture
- Architecture, Modern
- Art
- City planning
- Painters
- Painting, Modern
- Photographers
- Photography
- Sculptors
- Sculpture, Modern
- Vernacular architecture
- Women architectural critics
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- Illinois--Chicago (as recorded)