In Budapest, on leaves and during convalescence, Moholy-Nagy became involved first with the journal Jelenkor ('The Present Age'), edited by Hevesy, and then with the 'Activist' circle around Lajos KassГЎk's journal Ma ('Today'). Immediately before and during World War I he studied law in Budapest and served in the war, where he sustained a serious injury. In 1918 he formally converted to the Hungarian Reformed Church (Calvinist) his Godfather was his Roman Catholic university friend, the art critic Ivan Hevesy. One part of his boyhood was spent in the Hungarian Ada town, near Mohol in family house. Later, he added 'Moholy' ('from Mohol') to his surname, after the name of the Hungarian town Mohol in which he grew up. He changed his German-Jewish surname to the Magyar surname of his mother's Christian lawyer friend Nagy, who supported the family and helped raise Moholy-Nagy and his brothers when their Jewish father, LГЎszlГі Weisz left the family. He attended Gymnasium (academic high school) in the city of Szeged. His cousin was the conductor Sir Georg Solti. Moholy-Nagy was born LГЎszlГі Weisz in BГЎcsborsГіd to a Jewish-Hungarian family. He was highly influenced by constructivism and a strong advocate of the integration of technology and industry into the arts. LГЎszlГі Moholy-Nagy (JNovember 24, 1946) was a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as professor in the Bauhaus school.

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