Lichtrequisit
As Oliver Botar has demonstrated in his Sensing the Future: Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts, the Lichtrequisit was not conceived to be viewed as a sculpture in itself. It was […]
As Oliver Botar has demonstrated in his Sensing the Future: Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts, the Lichtrequisit was not conceived to be viewed as a sculpture in itself. It was […]
In 1937, the Association of Arts and Industries invited László Moholy–Nagy to develop and direct a school of design and architecture in Chicago based upon the Bauhaus model of an […]
While a student at the Bauhaus, Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack developed equipment to produce experiments with Farblichtspiele (Color-Light-Plays, c. 1924) on continuous film. In Malerei Photographie Film (Painting, Photography, Film, 1925), Bauhaus […]
Between 1869–1875, English physicist William Crookes developed the cathode ray tube, also known as a Crookes Tube. His and others’ experiments with the application of high voltages to a partially […]
Dutch artist Theo van Doesburg was perpetually at odds with the Bauhaus ideology of the early 1920s, initially inspired by German Expressionism and upheld by Johannes Itten. At the same time, […]
In Der Raum als Membran (Space as Membrane, 1926), Siegfried Ebeling described the outer membrane of a house as a breathable skin able to protect its inhabitants from harmful pollutants […]