Lucia (Schulz) Moholy (also Moholy-Nagy) was a writer/editor and talented photographer and raised by an intellectual family. She met (1920) and married Lazslo Moholy-Nagy (1921). They worked together in the field of experimental photography. In Weimar she did an apprenticeship in one of the local photography studios where she learned the trade of photgraphy (one could not study it at the time). Her photos for Gropius (of his architecture) and the products of the Bauhaus helped make the school famous. The marriage fell apart in 1929 and she lived with Theodor Neubauer (a communist and openly Anti-Nazi member of the German Congress (Reichstag) her life was suddenly in danger in 1933, when the Nazis arrested Neubauer (she never saw him again). She fled via Prague, Vienna and Paris to London, leaving behind her glass negative archive with Walter and Ise Gropius. The Gropius house was destroyed in the war, and Lucia Moholy thought the negatives to be lost. However they had found their way to America with the Gropius family, and when Walter Gropius began publishing them (without crediting Lucia Moholy) she wrote to him asking for them to be returned to her. Only after many years of legal action was she able to regain a small number of them.

Lucia Moholy’s photography is professional and sensitive, with a special talent for portrait photography. Her work deserves to be held in the highest regard.