Sibyl Moholy-Nagy
Sibyl Moholy -Nagy, born as Maria Dorothea Pauline Alice Sybille Pietzsch, even Sybil Peach, ( born October 29, 1903 in Loschwitz, German Reich, † January 8, 1971 in New York, United States) was a German - American dramaturge, Actress, architectural and art historian. It is regarded as influential and important architectural critic of the 1950s and 1960s.
Life
Sibyl Moholy -Nagy is a subsidiary of the Dresden architect Martin Pietzsch. In the 1920s she worked in Berlin under the stage name Sibyl Peach as an actress and screenwriter. After her acting career, she moved to Tobis Tonbild Syndicate and worked as a production assistant. In 1932 she married second husband, the painter, designer and photographer László Moholy -Nagy and emigrated because of the Nazi dictatorship two years later in the United States. After the death of her husband in 1946 she distinguished herself as an architectural historian, published a number of articles and books. In 1947 she got a job as a lecturer at the Institute of Design in Chicago. This was followed by a one-year teaching career at Bradley University in Peoria. In 1949, they moved to California, where she taught at the Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design in San Francisco and the University of California at Berkeley. With the publication of the biography Moholy -Nagy her late husband began in 1951 a career as a professor of architectural history at the Pratt Institute in New York. In 1969 she became Professor Emeritus and died on 8 January 1971 at the age of 67 years.