Albers and Moholy-Nagy (From the bauhaus to the new world)

This extensively illustrated survey is the first to examine in depth the contrasts and correspondences in the lives and work of two Modernism´s pioneers, Josef Albers (1888-1976) and Lászlo Moholy-Nagy (1895-1947). At the Bauhaus the two artists´ work condensed art to its visual fundamentals: line, colour, texture, light and form. Exiled to America, Albers taught at Black Mountain College and at Yale University, Moholy-Nagy taught at the New Bauhaus School and founded the School of Design in Chicago. Their influence on the course of both American and European