Letters, 1924-1938.

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Letters, 1924-1938.

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Collection includes: one postcard to K. H. Haupt, 1924 June 16, briefing him on Moholy-Nagy's recent activities; one letter to Will Grohmann, 1932 Oct.13, discussing a design for a book cover, an article by Grohmann in "Neue Stadt" and Moholy-Nagy's intention to discuss the problem of a new visual design in greater detail. One letter to Georg Schünemann, Director of the State Academy for Music, Berlin, 1933, in which Moholy-Nagy asks to borrow the LP recording of Popocatepetel by Toch for a presentation in London of experimental films and sounds. Includes a carbon of Schünemann's response. Ten letters, 1937-1938, to the Langen-Müller publishing house attempting to obtain plates for earlier Bauhaus publications for planned reprints by the New Bauhaus.

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Bauhaus

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Langen-Muller Verlag.

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Toch, Ernst

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Schünemann, Georg, 1884-1945

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New Bauhaus Chicago, Ill

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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...

Grohmann, Will, 1887-1968

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Haupt, K. H.

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