Founding of the New Bauhaus

In 1937, former Bauhaus instructor László Moholy-Nagy moved to Chicago to direct a “New Bauhaus.” Though short-lived under that name, Moholy went on to head an independent school that later became IIT’s Institute of Design. His goal was nothing less than the realization of a new way of living: “It is the artist’s duty today to penetrate yet-unseen ranges of the biological functions, to search the new dimensions of the industrial society and to translate the new findings into emotional orientation. The artist unconsciously disentangles the most essential strands of existence from the contorted and chaotic complexities of actuality, and weaves them into an emotional fabric of compelling validity, characteristic of himself as well as of his epoch.”