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LUCIA MOHOLY (1894-1989) A selection of 7 important real photo postcards documenting the art and architecture of the Bauhaus. Silver prints on carte-postale paper, the images measuring 3 1/4x4 5/8 inches (8.3x11.7 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, the sheets 3 1/2x5 1/2 inches (8.9x14 cm.), each with the photographer's credit, caption, and date printed on verso. 1923, 1925-26 The Moholy cards include: Walter Gropius: Bauhausneubau, Dessau, Werkstättenbau, 1925-26 * Wohnhaus Gropius in der Bauhausmeister-siedlung, Architekt Waler Gropius, Dessau, 1925-26 * Walter Gropius: Bauhausenbau, Dessau, 1925-26 * Walter Gropius/Dessau: Doppelwohnhaus der Bauhausmeistersiedlung, 1925-26 * Marianne Brandt / Bauhaus: Beieuchtungskörper, 1926 * Georg Muche / Bauhaus: Bild (positiv-negativ), 1926 * Paul Klee / Bauhaus: Feuerwind, 1923
WITH--Three additional real photo postcards documenting artworks created by Bauhaus artists as well as one small silver print of a model. The subjects include: Consemüller, Gunta Stölzl: Wandbehang, 1924 * Consemüller, Marcel Breuer / Bauhaus: Klubsessel aus Vernickeltem Stahlrohr, 1925 * Oskar Schlemmer / Bauhaus: Konzentrische Gruppe, 1925 * Projekt Für Ein Wohnhaus, A.Z. Ulrich (the silver print, with notations on verso) Lucia Moholy's important contributions to the aesthetic and documentation of the Bauhaus school went unrecognized for many decades, largely through the willful erasure of her contributions by her husband Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and the founder of the Bauhaus, Walter Gropius, but also her forced flight from the rise of the Nazi party in Germany. Through Moholy eventually reclaimed her negatives (through legal action), her status and influence remain unappreciated.
