Bauhaus Photography

Bauhaus is an important thread within the history of photography. It can be understood as the school of art, craft, and architecture founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar in 1919. This movement page brings together photographers, eras, and related contexts so readers can see how the approach developed, where it circulated, and which artists help define its historical position.

Basic facts
MovementBauhaus
Photographers1

Overview

The school of art, craft, and architecture founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar in 1919. There, figures such as Moholy-Nagy theorized photography as a medium of light and spatial expression and advanced the idea of the New Vision.

Photographers

🇭🇺 🇩🇪HU / DE1895–1946
László Moholy-Nagy
Bauhaus Photography
BauhausNew Vision+2

Born in Hungary, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy served in World War I and began drawing on his own while still in the trenches.

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