Laszlo Moholy-Nagy is widely considered to be one of the twentieth century's most
important and influential artists. This
paper discusses him as a
photographer, painter, designer, writer, sculptor printmaker, film-maker and teacher. It shows how his influence reached into many aspects of the arts, from his native Eastern Europe, to the Western part of the Continent, across the Atlantic to the United States. The paper also explains how Moholy-Nagy was an
important figure in the Western European Constructivism movement.