LÁSZLÓ MOHOLY-NAGY (1895-1946)

The Transformation/Anxiety Dream, Fotoplastik, 1925

Details

LÁSZLÓ MOHOLY-NAGY (1895-1946)
The Transformation/Anxiety Dream, Fotoplastik, 1925
gelatin silver print
'foto moholy-nagy' credit stamp (on the verso)
image/sheet: 9 x 6¾in. (22.9 x 17.1cm.)

Literature

Moholy-Nagy: Fotoplastiks, the Bauhaus Years, Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1983, cover and p. 29; Modernist Masterworks to 1925 from 'the deLIGHTed eye', A Private Collection, International Center of Photography, New York, 1985, p. 27; In Focus: László Moholy-Nagy, The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1995, pl. 38, p. 40

Exhibited

Modernist Masterworks to 1925 from 'the deLIGHTed eye', A Private Collection, International Center of Photography, New York, May 15-June 16, 1985

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Lot Essay

Moholy-Nagy produced several variants of this work, based on a portrait of Marcel Breuer, a Bauhaus student and fellow Hungarian, who was appointed head of its furniture workshop in 1925 and later became a celebrated architect. In The Transformation/Anxiety Dream Moholy repeats Breuer's figure, adding a ball and inverted eyes, plucked from other faces. The disturbing effect of these eyes possibly prompted the photograph's alternative title Anxiety Dream.
Moholy adapted the series in 1927 to advertise the Schocken Department Store in Nuremberg.

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