Rothenburg ob der Tauber
Artist
László Moholy-Nagy
(American, born Hungary, 1895 - 1946)
Date1928
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 14 1/2 x 10 1/8 inches (36.83 x 25.73 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.306
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DescriptionAerial view of city street. The actual road cuts diagnoally across the frame from the upper right corner to the lower center. Three figures, two on the sidewalk, and one in the road cast long shadows, as does an automobile on the left center of the frame.Exhibition HistoryAvant-Garde Photography in German 1919-1939. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, December 19, 1980 – February 8, 1981, no cat.
Cityscapes: 20th Century Urban Images from the Hallmark Photographic Collection. First Street Forum, St. Louis, MO, April 13-May 20, 1984, no cat.
Celebrating a Grand Gift: The Hallmark Photographic Collection. The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, January 10 – April 30, 2006, no cat.
Rotation 1. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 17 – October 25, 2007, no cat.
László Moholy-Nagy embraced the camera’s ability to transform ordinary visual experience and, in his words, bring something “entirely new into the world.” This elevated view of Rothenburg, a small medieval town in southern Germany, epitomizes his approach. The diagonal orientation and bird’s-eye vantage point transforms a quiet street scene into a boldly modern arrangement of shapes, textures, and light.
Sybil Moholy-Nagy;
with Inge Bondi, New York, NY by 1970;
Purchased from Inge Bondi by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1970;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
with Inge Bondi, New York, NY by 1970;
Purchased from Inge Bondi by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1970;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
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