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László Moholy-Nagy
[Hungarian Constructivist Painter and Photographer, ca.1895-1946]
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László Moholy-Nagy Works Online
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Original works by László Moholy-Nagy available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan Photographic Triptych, 1922
Eastman House Museum of Photography & Film, Rochester, New York
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Guggenheim Museum, New York City Click "View all" to see a total of 13 works online
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 10 works online by Moholy-Nagy
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW! Photograph collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City Includes biographical information about the artist
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff L & CH, 1936-39
Bauhaus-Archiv Museum of Design, Berlin Description of Moholy-Nagy's preliminary course taught at the Bauhaus school 1923-1928 (Several of Moholy-Nagy's works can be found elsewhere on the site)
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois Abstraction
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
DePaul University Museum, Chicago Untitled screenprint
Fotomuseum den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands Carnival (Composition with masks), ca.1934
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome (in Italian) 
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, Brunswick, New Jersey Landscape (Bridge at Óbuda Hajógyár?), 1918-19
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland Alphabetically under "M"
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Magyar Nemzeti Galéria (Hungarian National Gallery), Budapest Info and images from a 2008 exhibition: The Early Moholy-Nagy Reconsidered
MUMOK - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna (You need to click the "right" arrow nine times)
Musée Cantini, Marseilles, France (in French)  Marseille, le pont transbordeur
Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project 7 works by Moholy-Nagy
Neue Galerie Museum for German and Austrian Art, New York City A XI, 1923
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida Cat (negative), ca.1926
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid (Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image) Circle Segments, 1921 Large Railway Painting, 1920
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German) 
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK Emery Paper Collage
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch) 
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive (database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Fine Arts in Hungary
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  (a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
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Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Laszlo Moholy-Nagy  Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia Biographical info
Hungarian Art Portal Biographical entry from the Encyclopedia of Contemporary Hungarian Arts
Magyar Elektronikus Könyvtár (Hungarian Electronic Library) (in Hungarian)  Brief biographical sketch from the Hungarian Biographical Encyclopedia
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
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 The Struggle for Utopia: Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy
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