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The artist, theorist, and teacher László Moholy-Nagy profoundly influenced the evolution of modern art through his art, publications, and teaching posts, first at the Bauhaus in Weimar, and then in Dessau, Germany, between 1923 and 1928, and later at the New Bauhaus (which became the Institute of Design) in Chicago between 1937 and 1946. Moholy-Nagy was aligned with the Constructivist movement, which was founded in the Soviet Union in 1919, and promoted art in all media that combined acute attention to the particular material properties of an object as well as to its spatial presence. The Constructivists’ works were geometric in construction with clean, industrial lines. In photography, they favored an abstract use of light, making photograms ideal for their purpose.