Remembering Hattula Moholy-Nagy (1933–2024)
December 9, 2024
Hattula Moholy-Nagy photographed by ID student Nathan Lerner in 1940. Photo from the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago.
Hattula Moholy-Nagy, anthropologist, artist, and daughter of László Moholy-Nagy, died on November 26, 2024. Her son, ID alum Andreas Hug (MDes 2004) shared the news with ID. Her full obituary can be found in the Chicago Tribune.
Born in Berlin in 1933, Hattula and her parents fled Nazi Germany for London in 1935. The family came to the US in 1937, when her father founded The New Bauhaus—today’s Institute of Design—in Chicago. She and the Moholy-Nagy Foundation have been instrumental in preserving Moholy’s legacy.
We spoke with Hattula on the occasion of the Bauhaus centenary in 2019, when the documentary film The New Bauhaus was released. She shared her belief that her father’s work can continue to shape the world for the better.
