Construction IX
Medium
color lithograph in black and green on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 59.2 × 43.5 cm (23 5/16 × 17 1/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
Accession Number
2012.92.145
About the Artist
László Moholy-Nagy
László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946), born László Weisz in Bácsborsód, Hungary, to a Jewish family, transformed from law student to pioneering modernist after World War I. Orphaned early by his father's departure, he was raised by his mother and guardian uncle Gusztáv Nagy, whose surname inspired his own. After studying law at the University of Budapest, Moholy-Nagy served as an Austro-Hungarian artille...