Lucia Moholy
| Lucia Moholy | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Lucia Schulz January 18, 1894 Prague, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | May 17, 1989 (aged 95) Zürich, Switzerland |
| Known for | photographer |
| Movement | Bauhaus |
Lucia Moholy, born Lucia Schulz, (18 January 1894, Prague, Austria-Hungary — 17 May 1989, Zürich, Switzerland) was a photographer. Her photography documented the architecture and products of the Bauhaus and introduced their work to a post-World War II audience. However, Moholy was seldom credited for her work, which was often attributed to László Moholy-Nagy or Walter Gropius.
In the early 1910's Lucia Moholy studied philosophy, philology, and art history, at the University of Prague. In 1915 she shifted her attention to publishing and worked as an editor for several publishing houses in Germany. In 1919 she published radical, Expressionist literature under the pseudonym Ulrich Steffen. She met Hungarian artist László Moholy-Nagy in 1920 in Berlin and married him on her 27th birthday in January 1921.The two would spend five years at the Bauhaus, where Lucia Moholy would explore her affinity with photography.
Her husband became a master at the Bauhaus in 1923 with Lucia Moholy as his primary darkroom technician and an important collaborator. She also became an apprentice in Otto Eckner’s Bauhaus photography studio. Moholy studied at the Leipzig Academy for Graphic and Book Arts (Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig) where she became a skilled photographer. Together the couple lived in Weimar and Dessau and she would produce images and portraits associated with that school. Moholy documented the interior and exterior of the Bauhaus architecture, its facilities, as well as the students and teachers. Her aesthetic was part of the Neue Sachlichkeitm (New Objectivity) which focused on documentation from a straightforward perspective. Moholy’s Bauhaus photographs helped construct the identity of the school and created its image.
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