László Moholy-Nagy

A first edition, presentation copy of Moholy-Nagy's photographs.

• Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (Hungarian).
• Design by Jan Tschichold.
• Berlin: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1930.
• Octavo.
• Inscribed: "für herr sandels mit / besten gruss[?] / Moholy-Nagy / 25/XI/37."
• Includes black-and-white photographs printed in relief halftone by F. Bruckmann AG, Munich.
• Text in German, English and French.
• Bound in photo-illustrated wrappers printed in yellow and black.

Moholy-Nagy was appointed director of The New Bauhaus: American School of Design in Chicago, with classes beginning in October 1937, on the recommendation of Walter Gropius, who had just accepted a position at Harvard. Moholy-Nagy had spent the previous two years in London and the year before that in Amsterdam after leaving Berlin in 1933.