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Artists›László Moholy-Nagy

László Moholy-Nagy

Hungarian-American, 1895–1946

WA-00014859

PaintingPhotographyBauhausConstructivism

Representation

None documented

Institutional Exhibitions

178

Works in Collection

312

Assets Indexed

Authority-backed Facts

Publications Referenced

80%

Profile Completeness

Cultural Positioning

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Authority Records (2)

WikidataQ160448

MoMA

Field Verification (5 fields)

3 cross-verified · 2 single-source

Birth yearArtsy + Duplicate Merge· 85%✓
NationalityDuplicate Merge + Artsy· 85%✓
Death yearDuplicate Merge· 85%✓
BiographyWikipedia + Ai Generated· 88%
LocationGallery Generic· 72%

Source Registry (5)

Christies-Artsyhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/laszlo-moholy-nagy
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Sothebyshttps://www.sothebys.com/en/artists/laszlo-moholy-nagy
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Almine-Rechhttps://www.alminerech.com/artists
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/4048
Tier 1 · Institutional92%
Wikidata
Tier 1 · Institutional40%

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Photography

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Painting

Related Artists

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Institutional

Museum Collections

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum The Metropolitan Museum of Art Museum of Modern ArtNew York Rijksmuseum Art Institute of Chicago Tate Cleveland Museum of Art

Canonical record

Artworks (178)

Double Loop

1946 · Plexiglass

16 1/4 x 22 1/4 x 17 1/2" (41.1 x 56.5 x 44.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Nuclear I, CH

1945 · Oil and graphite on canvas

96.5 × 76.2 cm (38 × 30 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Institute of Design letterhead

1945 · Letterpress

11 × 8 1/2" (27.9 × 21.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Institute of Design letterhead (Letter to Frederick Kiesler)

1944 · Letterpress

11 × 8 1/2" (27.9 × 21.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Institute of Design letterhead

1944 · Letterpress

11 × 8 1/2" (27.9 × 21.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1942 · Oil on incised and flawed plexiglass

23 1/8 x 18 1/8" (58.7 x 46 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1941 · Pen and black ink, with brush and gray wash, touches of orange and ochre gouache and orange colored pencil, over graphite, on ivory wove paper

19 × 17.4 cm (7 1/2 × 6 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1941 · Oil paint on white wove paper

45.5 × 36.3 cm (17 15/16 × 14 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1941 · Gelatin silver photogram

Image/paper: 28 × 36 cm (11 1/16 × 14 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1939 · Oil and ink on canvas

96.5 × 76.9 cm (38 × 30 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1939 · Gelatin silver print (photogram)

19 3/4 × 15 3/4" (50.2 × 40.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Untitled

1939 · gelatin silver print, photogram

Image: 50.6 x 40.3 cm (19 15/16 x 15 7/8 in.); Matted: 66 x 55.9 cm (26 x 22 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Untitled

1938 · Gelatin silver photogram

41 × 50.2 cm (16 3/16 × 19 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Bill of Fare, Gropius Dinner, March 9, 1937

1937 · Offset lithograph and gelatin silver print

9 1/4 x 7 1/2" (23.5 x 19.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Quickly Away, Thanks To Pneumatic Doors

1937 · Lithograph

39 7/8 x 24 7/8" (101.3 x 63.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Soon in the Train by Escalator (Poster for London Transport)

1937 · Lithograph

39 7/8 x 24 13/16" (101.3 x 63.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Vladimír Majakovskij (Vladimir Mayakovsky)

1936 · Book with frontispiece, typographic design and two-color photomontage wrappers

19.4 × 12.4 cm (7 5/8 × 4 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Your Fare From This Station (Poster for London Transport)

1936 · Lithograph

39 15/16 x 24 3/4" (101.5 x 62.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Space Modulator L3

1936 · Oil on perforated zinc and board, with glass-headed pins

17 1/4 x 19 1/8" (43.8 x 48.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

telehor, Internationale Zeitschrift für optische Kultur

1936 · Offset lithograph

8 1/4 x 11 5/8" (21 x 29.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

In the Cradle of the Deep

1936 · Letterpress

Folded: 6 3/16 x 8 1/2" (15.7 x 21.6 cm); unfolded: 6 3/16 x 20 7/16" (15.7 x 51.9 cm).

Museum of Modern Art

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Your Fare From This Station

1936 · Lithograph

39 15/16 x 24 3/4" (101.5 x 62.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Your Fare From This Station (Poster for London Transport)

1936 · Lithograph

39 15/16 x 24 3/4" (101.5 x 62.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1935 · Gelatin silver photogram

50.1 × 40.2 cm (19 3/4 × 15 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Artwork sources (6)

178 published of 305 catalogued · 247 with image

MoMA
126 publishedof 253 catalogued207 img
Art Institute Chicago
38 published38 img
The Met
7 published
Cleveland Museum of Art
5 published
Rijksmuseum
1 published1 img
Tate
1 published1 img

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 2)

2 entries · 1 sources

View from the Pont Transbordeur, Marseilles
1929 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Construction
1923 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

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Images

Artsy

Art Institute of Chicago

Relationships

Movements3

Photography Bauhaus Constructivism

Collections9

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum The Metropolitan Museum of Art Museum of Modern Art Cleveland Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Tate

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

In collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Tate

In collection

Rijksmuseum

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