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Untitled
(1923)
from the Konstruktionen: Kestnermappe 6 (Constructions: Kestner Portfolio 6) 1923
- Medium
- lithograph
- Measurements
- 59.7 × 43.8 cm (image and sheet)
- Place/s of Execution
- Hanover, Germany
- Edition
- edition of 50
- Inscription
- inscribed in pencil l.r.: Moholy = Nagy
- Accession Number
- 2020.737
- Departments
- International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Ursula Jacobs Bequest, 2020
© Public Domain - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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While living in Berlin between 1920 and 1923, Hungarian-born artist László Moholy-Nagy was exposed to avant-garde movements such as Dada, de Stijl and Constructivism, which profoundly shaped his artistic output. This lithograph was created in the same year Moholy-Nagy began teaching at the Bauhaus in Weimar, where he played a pivotal role in transforming the school into a centre for industrial design and production. The work forms part of the Constructions portfolio, an important example of Constructivist printmaking and Moholy-Nagy’s most notable work in the print medium. The composition of floating shapes and intersecting planes relates to Moholy-Nagy’s abstract paintings and his groundbreaking kinetic assemblages of metal and transparent plastic.
