An exhibition at Prague's Kunsthalle explores the life and work of Lucia Moholy, whose photographs helped to bring the Bauhaus to international attention. Here, curator Meghan Forbes picks five images that illuminate her often-overlooked legacy.
Born in Prague in 1894, Lucia Moholy was an innovative and prolific photographer, documentalist and writer, best known for her photos of the Bauhaus school of art and architecture, where she studied and worked between 1923 and 1928.
Her photographs were later used by Bauhaus director Walter Gropius to promote the school without crediting or compensating Moholy. She spent many years battling to regain her original negatives, which had been passed to Gropius after she was forced to flee Germany in 1933 when the Nazis rose to power. A new exhibition documents the life and work of Lucia Moholy (top and above). Both photos by Giorgio Hoch
The Exposures exhibition, on show at Kunsthalle Praha until 28 October, explores the full breadth of Moholy's photographs and writings from the 1910s to the 1970s.
Forbes worked alongside fellow curators Jordan Troeller and Jan Tichy to tell the story of Moholy's diverse career, including her extensive portraiture and involvement in early forms of information science such as microfilm technologies, which served as a precursor to computerised data storage.
"The show takes a critical approach to examining how her life was at the crux of issues of gender, religion, ethnicity, class and geopolitical po...