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Franz Roh
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Lucia MoholyBritish Photographer · 1894–1989
All works by this person →Lucia Moholy, née Schulz, studied art history at Prague University and worked in publishing before meeting László Moholy-Nagy in 1920 and becoming interested in photography. They married the following year and began collaborating on writings on photography and art theory. After the couple moved to Weimar, Germany, where Moholy-Nagy had accepted a teaching position at the newly opened Bauhaus schoo
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- 1926
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- British
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 28ffd27c-d884-409e-bb83-385c06eb6240
From the Getty Museum record
Surrounded by architects and artists of enormous ego during her marriage to Bauhaus master László Moholy-Nagy, Lucia Moholy devotedly documented their buildings and works of art. In her portraiture, however, she exerted her own creative instincts. Her close-up portrait of the critic, art historian, and experimental photographer Franz Roh captured him with eyes closed, imbuing him with a modest, introspective, almost vulnerable appearance.
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