Sibyl Moholy-Nagy | |
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.jpg) Moholy-Nagy as an actress | |
| Born | Sibylle Pietzsch October 29, 1903 Dresden, Germany |
| Died | January 8, 1971 (aged 67) New York City, US |
| Nationality | German, American |
| Occupation(s) | Professor, architectural historian and critic |
| Employer | Pratt Institute (1951-1969) |
| Spouses | |
| Children | 2 |
Sibyl Moholy-Nagy (born Dorothea Maria Pauline Alice Sybille Pietzsch;[1] October 29, 1903 – January 8, 1971) was an architectural and art historian. Originally a German citizen, she accompanied her second husband, the Hungarian Bauhaus artist László Moholy-Nagy, in his move to the United States. She was the author of a study of his work, Moholy-Nagy: Experiment in Totality, plus several other books on architectural history.
She was an outspoken critic of what she regarded as the excesses of postwar modernist architecture. After her death in 1971, fellow writer Reyner Banham eulogized her as "the most formidable of the group of lady-critics (Jane Jacobs, Ada Louise Huxtable, etc) who kept the U.S. architectural establishment continually on the run during the 50s and 60s".[2]
- ^ "Guide to the Sibyl Moholy-Nagy Collection MS.043 at UC Santa Cruz". Online Archive of California. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
- ^ Stratigakos, Despina (16 March 2015). "Hitler's Revenge". Places Journal (2015). doi:10.22269/150316. Retrieved 2019-06-14.