{"id":31438,"date":"2026-07-14T09:39:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T07:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/?post_type=artist&#038;p=31438"},"modified":"2026-07-17T10:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T08:13:08","slug":"lucia-moholy","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/discover\/artist\/lucia-moholy\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucia Moholy"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern header-text toggle-optional-image show-optional-image' data-pattern='ho\/header-kunstler'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\n\n<div  class='color-bg-highlight color-fg-highlight header-space header-height-read-only padding-bottom-6'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-offset-1 col-md-7'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-3'><div class=\"wp-block-ho-slot \"><div class=\"margin-bottom-3\">\n\t<swup-back>Back<\/swup-back>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-offset-1 col-md-7'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n<h1 class='ho-sd-h2' style=\"white-space: normal;\">Lucia Moholy<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 text-align-center col-md-offset-1 col-md-3'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<div class=\"wp-block-ho-lane-wrapper\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\" data-lane-item-count=\"3\">\n\t\t<div class=\"container-fluid header-biography-list  cf-gutter-1 cf-side-1\">\n\t\t\t<ul class=\"wp-block wp-block-ho-grid row\">\n\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"wp-block-ho-lane-item col col-xs-12\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<p class='ho-sd-metadata'>Photographer, reprographist, editor and author<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-ho-lane-item col col-xs-12\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<p class='ho-sd-metadata'>born on 18 January 1894 in Prague<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-ho-lane-item col col-xs-12\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<p class='ho-sd-metadata'>died on 17 May 1989 in Zurich<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n\n\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-3 col-md-offset-5 ho-pattern-optional-image'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\"><figure itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" class=\"lazy-media-inline \" role=\"group\" aria-describedby=\"media_enN14K\">\n<script type=\"application\/json\">{\n\"id\" : 31753,\n\"sizes\" : {\"medium\":{\"file\":\"bha26_portrait_lucia-moholy-221x300.jpg\",\"width\":221,\"height\":300,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":11116},\"small\":{\"file\":\"bha26_portrait_lucia-moholy-325x440.jpg\",\"width\":325,\"height\":440,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":19877},\"semi\":{\"file\":\"bha26_portrait_lucia-moholy-428x580.jpg\",\"width\":428,\"height\":580,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":31266},\"mobile\":{\"file\":\"bha26_portrait_lucia-moholy-531x720.jpg\",\"width\":531,\"height\":720,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":45271},\"original\":{\"file\":\"bha26_portrait_lucia-moholy.jpg\",\"width\":754,\"height\":1022}},\n\"alt\" : \"Portrait of a thoughtful woman with folded hands in black and white. 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After studying art history and philosophy, she began working as an editor and proofreader at various publishing houses in Germany in 1915. In 1921 she married the artist L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy. The couple experimented with photograms and wrote texts on the theory of photography. In 1923 Moholy-Nagy received a teaching position at the Bauhaus in Weimar. Lucia Moholy trained in Otto Eckner\u2019s photography studio there, and she additionally attended photo and printing courses at Leipzig\u2019s Academy of Graphic Arts and Book Trade. Between 1923 and 1928, Moholy photographed the Bauhaus: buildings, workshops, products, teachers and students. Her photos continue to shape the image of the school today. In 1928 the couple left the Bauhaus and moved to Berlin. They separated one year later. In 1930 Moholy became head of the photography class at the Itten-School in Berlin. At the same time, she started gathering material for a history of photography. 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