Kornfeld · Lot 427
Untitled
Pastel
Original catalogue wording
Ohne Titel
pastel
Catalogue period : 2022-06-16
Published result : 13000 CHF
Hammer price, excluding fees
Estimate : CHF 7500
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László Moholy-Nagy
Born : 1895Died : 1946Documented citizenships : Hungary · United States
László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946), born in Hungary, made experimentation a shared principle across painting, photography, film and design. Settling in Berlin in 1920, he embraced Constructivism and investigated transparency, overlapping planes and light. His photograms generated images without a camera by exposing objects directly on a light-sensitive surface.
Appointed to the Bauhaus in 1923, he combined teaching, material research and reflection on relationships between art and industry. Following periods in the Netherlands and England, he directed the New Bauhaus in Chicago in 1937 and opened the School of Design there in 1939. Composition, dated November 1945, combines oil crayon, pencil and collage. This work on paper demonstrates the continuity of his visual practice alongside his educational activity into his final years.
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Germann · Kornfeld · Lempertz
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Germann
Composition, 1945
Fettkreide, Bleistift und Collage.
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Lempertz · Lot 258
Watercolor N° 2
Aquarell und Tuschfeder über Bleistift auf Aquarellbütten
Original catalogue wording
Watercolor N° 2
Aquarell und Tuschfeder über Bleistift auf Aquarellbütten
Lot groupé — prix global
Auction date : 2019-11-29
Group lot — total price
Published result : 52080 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 30000
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