Abstraction III
Medium
linocut
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
1971.75.2
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
László Moholy-Nagy · 1895–1946
László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946), born László Weisz in Bácsborsód, Hungary, to a Jewish family, transformed from law student to pioneering modernist after World War I. Orphaned early by his father's departure, he was raised by his mother and guardian uncle Gusztáv Nagy, whose surname inspired his own. After studying law at the University of Budapest, Moholy-Nagy served as an Austro-Hungarian artille...