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ID: 500008672 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500008672			Record Type: Person

Moholy, Lucia (British photographer and author, 1894-1989)

Note: Lucia moved to Berlin in 1920 where she met László Moholy-Nagy whom she married in 1921. In 1922 to 1923 Moholy experimented with photograms with her husband as well as photographing the works of the Bauhaus. From 1924 to 1925 Moholy studied architectural photography and design at the Bauhaus, Weimar, Germany and also at the Bauhaus in Dessau, Germany from 1926 to 1928. In 1925-1926 Moholy was commissioned by Walter Gropius to photograph the new Bauhaus buildings at the Dessau, Germany campus. Moholy established a private studio for art photography in Dessau, Germany from 1925 to 1928. In 1928 Moholy settled in Berlin, Germany and began to concentrate on theatre photography. In 1933 Moholy moved to Paris, France, and in 1934 she moved to London, England, United Kingdom, and opened a portrait studio. Moholy became a naturalized British citizen in 1947. From 1952 to 1953 and from 1956 to 1957 Moholy served as an expert for scientific documentation in the Middle East for UNESCO. She was sent to photograph Ankara and Istanbul, Turkey. In 1959 Moholy moved to Zurich, Switzerland.

Names:
	Moholy, Lucia (preferred,V,index,LC,Dutch-P,NA)
	Lucia Moholy (V,display)
	Schulz, Lucia (V)	....	1894-1921
	née Schultz, Lucia (U)
	Moholy-Nagy, Lucia (U)
	Schulz, Luca (U)

Nationalities:
	British (modern) (preferred)
	Czech
	Bohemian
	Hungarian
	Swiss
	Czechoslovakian (historic)
	German

Roles:
	artist (preferred)
	photographer
	author
	teacher
	writer

Gender: female


Birth and Death Places:
	Born: Prague (Praha, Hlavní Město, Czech Republic) (inhabited place) Died: Zurich (Zürich, Switzerland) (inhabited place)

Events:

	active:		1920-1933 Germany (Europe) (nation)
	active:		1933 Paris (Île-de-France, France) (inhabited place)
	active:		1934-1958 London (Greater London, England, United Kingdom) (inhabited place)
	active:		1952-1953 Turkey (Asia) (nation)
	active:		1959-1989 Zurich (Zürich, Switzerland) (inhabited place)
	naturalization:		1947 United Kingdom (Europe) (nation)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:

assistant of ....	Moholy Nagy, László
......................	(Hungarian-born American photographer, filmmaker, and painter, 1895-1946) [500004274]

spouse of ....	Moholy Nagy, László
................	(Hungarian-born American photographer, filmmaker, and painter, 1895-1946) [500004274]

teacher of ....	Bill, Binia
..................	(American photographer, 1904-1988) [500388874]

List/Hierarchical Position:

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Persons, Artists

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Moholy, Lucia (I)

Biographies:

(British photographer and author, 1894-1989) ..... [VP Preferred]
(Czech author, photographer, b.ca.1900) ..... [BHA]
(Czech and British photographer and author; born Prague (Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, now Czech Republic), 1894; died Zurich (Switzerland), 1989) ..... [CCA]
(British (b. Czechoslovakia), 1899) ..... [JPGM]
(Hungarian artist, active 1926) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(Swiss photographer, 1894-1989) ..... [AVERY]
(British photographer, 1894-1989) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist) ..... [GRL]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(British artist, born Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic). 1894-1989) ..... [MoMA]
(Czechoslovakian (hist.) photographer, 1894-1989) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:

Lucia Moholy ........	[AVERY, CCA, GRISC, GRL, MoMA, VP, WL-Courtauld]
..........................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..........................	Canadian Centre for Architecture database
..........................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules
..........................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)

Moholy, Lucia ........	[AVERY Preferred, BHA Preferred, CCA Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, JPGM Preferred, MoMA Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
............................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
............................	Avery Authority files (1963-)
............................	Grove Art artist database (1989-)
............................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
............................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 85250384
............................	Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
............................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 315211
............................	Witt Library, Authority files

Moholy-Nagy, Lucia ........	[RKD]
.......................................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 315211

née Schultz, Lucia ........	[Grove Art]
....................................	Grove Art artist database (1989-)

Schulz, Luca ........	[RKD]
..........................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 315211

Schulz, Lucia ........	[CCA]
............................	Canadian Centre for Architecture database


Note:
English	..........	[CCA, VP]
	..........	Auer, Encyclopédie des Photographes (1985)
	..........	Hight, Moholy-Nagy (1985) 132
	..........	LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
	..........	Naylor, Contemporary Photographers (1988)

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