Lucia Moholy – The Image of Modernity at the Bröhan Museum, Berlin

“Everybody, except myself, have used, and admit to having used my photographs … and often also without mentioning my name”, lamented Lucia Moholy in 1956, “everyone – except myself – have derived advantages from using my photographs, either directly, or indirectly, in a number of ways, be it in cash or prestige, or both”.¹

The photographs in question being of and from the Weimar and Dessau Bauhauses, photos which played, and continue to play, a not unimportant role in mediating Bauhaus to a wider audience. But which in doing such don’t necessarily help mediate Lucia Moholy to that wider audience. On the contrary, they tend to hold her in a relative anonymity.

With Lucia Moholy – The Image of Modernity the Bröhan Museum, Berlin, help explain how such a situation came to be, why Lucia Moholy’s lament is both justified and an important lesson, and also how it relates to popular understandings of Bauhaus.

But for all seek to redress some of the ongoing consequences of that relative anonymity…….

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……and continued over Budapest and on to Berlin – where amongst other delights we partook of the exhibitions Sensing the

Sensing the Future: László Moholy-Nagy, die Medien und die Künste at the Bauhaus Archiv Berlin

In his 1936 film “Modern Times” Charlie Chaplin is famously swallowed by the wheels of progress in a short yet