László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946) was born in Bácsborsód, Hungary. After military service in World War I and completing a law degree, Moholy-Nagy took up painting and moved to Berlin. In 1923 he was appointed by Walter Gropius to teach at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau. Following an active intermediate period of personal design work, films and exhibitions in Berlin beginning in 1928, he immigrated to the US and founded the New Bauhaus–American School of Design in Chicago in 1937. In his short lifetime, Moholy-Nagy published numerous books and participated in many exhibitions, both group and one-man shows. Born in 1957, Jeannine Fiedler works in Berlin as an art and film historian. Fiedler studied theatre, art history and journalism at the Freie Universität Berlin, and has written and lectured widely on László Moholy-Nagy. In 2001 Fiedler published László Moholy-Nagy, and in 2006 she curated “László Moholy- Nagy. Color in Transparency. Photographic Experiments in Color 1934–1946” at the Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung in Berlin.