A black tangle of girders, wheels and toothed rails

Heavy black bars cut across one another at every angle, building a dense machine-like tangle on cream paper. Several carry a sawtooth band down their length like a toothed rail, and a large triangle of thick beams anchors the centre. Spoked wheels sit at the lower left and lower right, fans of radiating lines open at the left and upper left, and small ladder and grid panels are wedged among the struts. The cutting is blunt and vigorous, the whites left as sharp splinters between the blacks.

László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946) was a Hungarian painter, photographer and designer and one of the defining teachers of the Bauhaus, where he led the preliminary course and the metal workshop from 1923 to 1928. He worked in paint, photography, typography and light, pioneering the cameraless photogram and setting out his ideas in Malerei, Fotografie, Film (1925). Driven out of Germany, he worked in Amsterdam and London before settling in Chicago, where he founded the New Bauhaus in 1937. His work is held by the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, the Art Institute of Chicago and Tate.

Printed as a museum-grade giclée on Hahnemühle fine art paper using 12-ink archival pigment printing. Available handframed in FSC-certified wood with optional float glass, or unframed. Ships worldwide with free delivery to 30+ countries.