Sibyl Moholy-Nagy Collection 1909-1970

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Sibyl Moholy-Nagy Collection 1909-1970

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This collection includes correspondence, clippings, articles, typescripts, and photographs documenting architectural styles worldwide taken mostly in the 1960's by the architectural historian and critic Sibyl Moholy-Nagy. The images and articles relate to the history of architecture and were used to support Sibyl Moholy-Nagy's teaching. The material is arranged alphabetically by Moholy-Nagy's original code and subject divisions. Also included is an important group of periodicals and documents pertaining to the Futurist Movement in Italy. Along with the negatives of architectural subjects are 3 small collections of slides of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy's artwork, and a separate group of black and white photographs of his artwork from an exhibition in 1969.

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University of California, Santa Cruz. . University Library Special Collections and Archives

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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 i...

Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946

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László Moholy-Nagy (1894-1946) was a painter, sculptor, photographer, designer, film maker, theorist and teacher who was a major figure in the Bauhaus movement, first in Germany and later instrumental in bringing the Bauhaus philosophy to the United States. His work spanned many genres. He was influenced by the Constructivists, Dadists and the Suprematists. In 1922 he was appointed to Bauhaus school of design in Berlin, staying until 1928. After working in commercial practice in Europe, he mov...