Hungarian painter, sculptor, photographer and teacher. He moved to Berlin in 1920 where he met Walter Gropius at an exhibition of his work at Der Sturm gallery. Shortly thereafter, Gropius invited Moholy-Nagy to teach at the Bauhaus. Moholy-Nagy took over the preliminary course from Johannes Itten and explored the relationship between space, time, mass and light in a series of paintings and kinetic sculptures, such as the Light-Space-Modulater. He also conducted photographic experiments with his first wife Lucia, and coedited the Bauhaus Books with Walter Gropius. Like many of his cohorts, he was driven from Germany by the political situation, moving first to Amsterdam and then to London, where he designed publicity materials for Isokon and the London Underground, among others. In 1937, Moholy-Nagy accepted the post of Director of the New Bauhaus in Chicago. When the American Association of Arts and Industries withdrew their support for the endeavor, he reopened the school which was eventually renamed the Institute of Design. Moholy-Nagy died of leukemia in 1946.