LÁSZLÓ MOHOLY-NAGY (1895-1946)

Moholy-Nagy produced several variants of this work, based on a portrait of Marcel Breuer, a Bauhaus student and fellow Hungarian, who was appointed head of its furniture workshop in 1925 and later became a celebrated architect. In The Transformation/Anxiety Dream Moholy repeats Breuer's figure, adding a ball and inverted eyes, plucked from other faces. The disturbing effect of these eyes possibly prompted the photograph's alternative title Anxiety Dream.
Moholy adapted the series in 1927 to advertise the Schocken Department Store in Nuremberg.