Photographer, born in the small village of Borsod, Austria-Hungary (latter Bácsborsod, Hungary), in 1895; moved to Budapest in 1913 to study law but studies interrupted by first world war, enlisting as an officer in artillery in 1915; involved in radical politics, left for Berlin in 1920 to teach Bauhaus; noted for light sculpture and involvement in avante garde art; left Bauhaus in 1928, working in early film set design before moving around Europe, finally moving to England in 1935; moved to Chicago in 1937 to be director of the New Bauhaus.