1. Lucia Moholy was a photographer and publications editor.
19 Facts About Lucia Moholy
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Lucia Moholy's photos documented the architecture and products of the Bauhaus, and introduced their ideas to a post-World War II audience.
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However, Moholy was seldom credited for her work, which was often attributed to her husband Laszlo Moholy-Nagy or to Walter Gropius.
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Lucia Moholy described how groups of twenty arrived for short periods, partied and left.
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Lucia Moholy was in a relationship with a communist Member of Parliament, Theodor Neubauer, who was arrested in her apartment one day while she was out.
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Lucia Moholy abruptly left Berlin, leaving all of her belongings including the bulky glass negatives of her Bauhaus photographs, which ended up in the hands of Walter Gropius.
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Lucia Moholy then went to Switzerland, Austria, Paris, before settling in London in June 1934.
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Lucia Moholy-Nagy provided her with an offer of a position as photography professor in Chicago.
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Lucia Moholy's aesthetic was part of the Neue Sachlichkeit movement, which focused on documentation from a straightforward perspective.
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Lucia Moholy was a skilled photographer through her studies at the Leipzig Academy for Graphic and Book Arts At Bauhaus, she apprenticed in Otto Eckner's photography studio.
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Lucia Moholy's images were widely used for marketing and in the Bauhaus school's sales catalogs, as well as Bauhaus-published books that she edited.
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Lucia Moholy repeatedly reached out to Gropius to reclaim her images and he would continuously protest.
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Lucia Moholy resorted to hiring a lawyer to retrieve her work.
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Lucia Moholy did not get physical possession of her original material until 1957, but even then she only could recover a portion of them, 230 out of the 560 Bauhaus-era negatives she took, while 330 negatives, according to Lucia Moholy's own card catalogue, are still missing.
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Lucia Moholy's 1972 publication, Moholy-Nagy Notes, was an attempt to reclaim credit for her work that was printed without permission.
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Lucia Moholy arrived in London in June 1934 and established her home and studio at 39 Mecklenburgh Square.
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Lucia Moholy was appointed director of the ASLIB Microfilm Service, at the Science Museum, London, as part of the Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux.
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In 1925, Lucia Moholy was included in the landmark exhibition in Stuttgart, Film and Foto.
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The book was reviewed by Beaumont Newhall in 1941, who complained that it did not give enough account of stylistic changes in photography: Newhall wanted to give photography its own history, distinct from the wider histories of art and technology, but Lucia Moholy situated photography within these larger contexts, emphasising the mutual dependence of different media and practices.