Moholy-Nagy (born on July 20, 1895) studied law at the university in Budapest but dropped out after just a year in 1914 and joined the Austro-Hungarian army in WW I. He left the army in 1917 after an injury. In 1918 he graduated in law but instead of pursuing the career of a lawyer he became an artist. He was the member of the art group MA together with Ludwig Kassak, its founder. He started the literature magazine Jelenkora, and in 1919 he moved to Vienna. He also worked for the MA’s group Horizonta, and in 1920, he moved to Berlin where he started making photograms and Dadaistic collages. With Ludwig Kassak he edited Das Buch neuer Kunstler, a collection of poetry and essays about art. In 1921 he met El Lissittzky in Germany and traveled to Paris. The following year he held his private exhibition, organized by Herwath Walden in his gallery Der Sturm in Berlin. At that time Moholy-Nagywas one of the most important developers of Constructivism. With Walter Gropius he edited a series of books Bauhausbücher. From 1923 to 1928 he taught at the Bauhaus school, first in Dessau and later in Weimar. Afterward he returned to Berlin and devoted himself to film and set design. In 1926, he made Berliner Stilleben, and later Alter Hafen Marseille (1929) and Lightplay: Black/White/Gray (Lichtspiel, schwarz-weiß-grau, 1930). He was one of the exhibitors on “Internationale Werkbund Ausstelung” in Paris during 1930, and four years later he moved to Amsterdam where he had a grand retrospective of his work in Stedelijk museum. When the Nazis came to power he moved to London in 1935. Two years later in Chicago he founded the New Bauhaus school, which was closed after less than a year due to financial difficulties. Afterwards he founded a new school of design (also in Chicago) which was later, in 1944, renamed “Institute of Design”. In the summer of 1940, he held lectures in Illinois. In 1941 he joined the American association of abstract painters and in 1944 he received American citizenship. In his last years he made sculptures out of Plexiglas.