LÁSZLÓ MOHOLY-NAGY: Artist of the Future

with Daniel and Andreas Hug & Oliver Botar László Moholy-Nagy is often associated above all with photography and the New Vision. Yet his work reaches far beyond this field. He was one of the great multimedia artists of the twentieth century — working with painting, photography, film, typography, stage design, and sculpture. At the centre of Moholy’s practice was a profound interest in education. He did not see art as something separate from life. His work explored how art could mediate between new technology and human experience — and how it might teach us to see, think, and live differently. This episode of bauhaus faces explores Moholy not only as the artist of the New Vision, but as an artist, educator, and thinker whose ideas helped shape modern visual culture. Because Moholy’s work is so vast and varied, this story will be told in two parts. Part 1 focuses on his family background, his path toward becoming an artist, his Bauhaus years, and his later period in Berlin. Part 2 follows him to the Netherlands, England, and finally Chicago, where he became director of the New Bauhaus and helped bring Bauhaus ideas into an international conversation about art, design, technology, and education. The episode features conversations with Moholy’s grandsons, Daniel and Andreas Hug, and with the Canadian art historian Oliver Botar. A bonus episode will accompany both parts, in which all three interview partners discuss selected works by Moholy — tracing his development from a young, self-taught painter to an internationally renowned artist and educator. SHOW NOTES bauhausfaces.com (https://www.bauhausfaces.com) | @bauhausfacespodcast (  / bauhausfacespodcast  ) | YouTube (   • bauhaus faces  ) | Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/1JkdKp4...) | Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast...) Moholy-Nagy Foundation (https://www.moholy-nagy.org) „Dynamic-constructive system of forces“ (Alfred Kemény and László Moholy-Nagy), Manifesto, in: Der Sturm, 1922, No. 12, English translation: https://monoskop.org/images/2/2b/Moho... László & Lucia Moholy-Nagy: „Production Reproduction“, 1923, originally published in: De Stijl, Issue 5, No. 7, July 1922, pp. 98–101, English translation: https://monoskop.org/László_Moholy-Na... László Moholy-Nagy: Ein Lichtspiel: Schwarz Weiß Grau (Light-Play: Black White Grey, 1930 (https://moholy-nagy.org/art-database-...) , https://moholy-nagy.org/art-database-... Sibyl Moholy-Nagy: Moholy-Nagy: Experiment in Totality, 1950 Oliver A. I. Botar: Sensing the Future: Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts, 2014 CHAPTER IMAGES 1 Hugo Erfurth: Portrait of László Moholy-Nagy, ca. 1930, https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/LászlóM... (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/László_...) 2 László and Ákos, Szeged, 1912, Moholy Nagy Foundation, https://www.moholy-nagy.org/biography/ 3 László Moholy-Nagy as an artillery officer cadet Budapest, Hungary, 1915, Moholy Nagy Foundation, https://www.moholy-nagy.org/photo-alb... 4 László Moholy-Nagy: Das große Rad (The Great Wheel), 1920, Van Abbemuseum, Eidhoven, Moholy Nagy Foundation, https://www.moholy-nagy.org/art-datab... 5 Berlin Potsdamer Platz, 1920s, http://www.kubiss.org/hkk-20er-jahre/... 6 László Moholy-Nagy: Metallkonstruktion mit Spirale, 1921, The Museum of Modern Art New York, Moholy Nagy Foundation, https://www.moholy-nagy.org/art-datab... 7 El Lissitzky: Proun (No. 2 from Kestnermappe), 1919–23, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://recherche.smb.museum/detail/1... 8 László Moholy-Nagy: Kinetic Constructive System: Structure with Moving Parts for Play and Conveyance, 1922, Moholy Nagy Foundation, https://www.moholy-nagy.org/art-datab... 9 László Moholy-Nagy: Photograms, 1920s–1940s, Moholy Nagy Foundation, https://moholy-nagy.org/photograms/ 10 László Moholy-Nagy: Konstruktion in Emaille or Telephone Painting, 1922/23, https://moholy-nagy.org/art-database-... 11 László Moholy-Nagy in his atelier Weimar, 1923, Moholy Nagy Foundation, https://www.moholy-nagy.org/biography/ 12 László Moholy-Nagy among his students at the Bauhaus metal workshop, ca. 1924, https://tecnolumen.de/das-bauhaus/ 13 László Moholy-Nagy: 7 a.m. (New Year’s morning), c. 1930, https://thecharnelhouse.org/2014/06/1... 14 Lász...