The Woman Who Immortalized the Bauhaus
Alice Rawsthorn | Aperture | 23rd January 2026
The Bauhaus is usually portrayed as a mostly male affair. Lucia Maholy arrived at the school as the wife of renowned artist Maholy-Nagy and became its unofficial resident photographer. Her “immaculately composed” still lifes of design objects defined a “radically new style of industrial photography”, while her “dispassionate” images of the school’s architecture still define our perceptions of the institution. Those images were later taken and used without attribution, making them famous but not her.