Photo: Vojtěch Veškrna, Kunsthalle Praha
Lucia Moholy was a Prague-born photographer who documented, often uncredited, the interwar Bauhaus movement in Germany. She has largely been overlooked as an artist – something a major new retrospective at the gallery Kunsthalle Praha aims to redress. I asked curator Jordan Troeller what role Moholy played in the Bauhaus.
“The role that she played is better stated negatively [laughs]. She was neither an enrolled student nor paid staff there; nor did she have another staff, teaching position.
“She was, as she put it, one of the Bauhaus wives [she was married to László Moholy-Nagy, a painter, photographer and Bauhaus professor]. There was a big group of women who were considered the Bauhaus wives – wives of teachers there.
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Author: Ian Willoughby