“Designing is not a profession but an attitude’ László Moholy-Nagy asserted in his 1947 book Vision in Motion, which was published a year after his death, with the cool self-assurance that came from a life dedicated to the integration of technology and the arts.
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Born in Hungary in 1895, Moholy-Nagy moved to Vienna in 1919, then Berlin the following year. In 1923 he began teaching at the Bauhaus, a celebrated German art school that became famous for utilizing design as the bridge between crafts and fine art. The schools influence was so strong it became a style in its own right, influencing Modern design, architecture, and art.
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It was here that Moholy-Nagy perfected his approach, allowing him to work in media as diverse as painting, photography, film, sculpture, advertising, product design, and theater sets with the ultimate goal of putting art to use. Believing that “The experience of space is not a privilege of the gifted few, but a biological function,” Moholy-Nagy set forth to create work that served the people.
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