not titled from 'Konstruktionen. Kestnermappe 6' [Constructions. Kestner Portfolio 6]
László MOHOLY-NAGY: artist
Eckard von Sydow and Ludwig Ey, Hannover: publisher
Leunis und Chapmann G M B H, Hannover: printer
![not titled from 'Konstruktionen. Kestnermappe 6' [Constructions. Kestner Portfolio 6]](https://collection.artgallery.wa.gov.au/records/images/xlarge/4277/7fb7b9c6c17a328d784410ed81217827ba63c3f5.jpg)
In 1922, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy was invited to create the sixth and final portfolio for the Kestner-Gesellschaft in Hanover. It was a pivotal time for the 27 year old artist, the youngest member of faculty at the Bauhaus. Konstruktionen marks a new style and a technique new to the artist, lithography.
The 6. Kesterner-Mappe Konstructionen was a set of six lithographs and owes a debt to El Lissitzky, whose Prouns, also in the State Art Collection, he admired. However it was Moholy-Nagy's photograms - photographs created by placing objects of varying transparency and shape directly on light-sensitive paper that was the principle inspiration for this suite of prints.
The 6. Kesterner-Mappe Konstructionen was a set of six lithographs and owes a debt to El Lissitzky, whose Prouns, also in the State Art Collection, he admired. However it was Moholy-Nagy's photograms - photographs created by placing objects of varying transparency and shape directly on light-sensitive paper that was the principle inspiration for this suite of prints.
Title
not titled from 'Konstruktionen. Kestnermappe 6' [Constructions. Kestner Portfolio 6]
Artist/Maker and role
László MOHOLY-NAGY: artist
Eckard von Sydow and Ludwig Ey, Hannover: publisher
Leunis und Chapmann G M B H, Hannover: printer
Eckard von Sydow and Ludwig Ey, Hannover: publisher
Leunis und Chapmann G M B H, Hannover: printer
Date
1923
Medium
lithograph
Measurements
60.0 x 44.2 cm (sheet)
Credit line
Purchased 1970
The State Art Collection, The Art Gallery of Western Australia
Accession number
1970/0Q46