Gropius House

Birthday Card: Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, 1943

Laszlo Moholy- Nagy became a Master in the Bauhaus Weimar and Dessau from 1923-28. He fostered a creative spirit for the modern design movement’s synthesis of art and technology. After the Bauhaus years, Walter Gropius recommended him for the directorship of the New School of Design in Chicago. They kept in close touch with each other over the years. His favorite painting was given to the Gropiuses by his widow, Sybil, after his death. According to Ati years later, “ Ebullient, kinetic Moholy was my father’s ideal in many ways: the ideal creative spirit for the modern design movement’s synthesis of art and technology.”