Brooks Riley in Art At First Sight:
When I first moved to Salzburg, I rented a place in a small 19th century building around the corner from the medieval Linzer Gasse, where Renaissance polymath Dr. Paracelsus was buried, and where Expressionist poet Georg Trakl had worked in a pharmacy. The flat had high ceilings, tall windows, a lovely old herringbone wooden floor, and blinding white walls just waiting for works of graphic impact to give them a semblance of meaning. I couldn’t afford a painting, but in a nearby poster shop—they were popular in those pre-online days—I flipped through hundreds of art reproductions, hoping to find an image deserving of those pristine walls. Only one poster fit the bill: a László Moholy-Nagy collage from 1922: Kinetisch-Konstruktives System (KKS).
László Moholy-Nagy is best known for his years teaching at the Bauhaus in Dessau and for bringing the Bauhaus school to America—to Chicago where it eventually became the Institute of Design. Born in Hungary in 1895, he hadn’t planned to be an artist, having studied for a career in law. But sketches he made to document his experiences as a soldier in World War I changed his mind.
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