1926-28

Unmounted, signed and titled verso bottom right "L. Moholy-Nagy Rothenburg".

inscribed in pencil lower left 23.

also inscribed in pencil on reverse at lower left "Rothenburg 23" (23 is probably the print number and not the date)

The Hallmark Collection has a variant of this photograph. In the book on their collection it is discussed in detail: "Moholy-Nagy often used dramatic or unusual vantage points in his quest to reinvent visual experience. One of the most remarkable is "Rothenburg..." To make this view, Moholy-Nagy (like innumerable other tourists before and after him) climbed a narrow ladder to the top of the spire above the Rothenburg town hall. Though this vantage point provided a beautiful view of the medieval village and the surrounding contryside, he aimed his camera steeply downward, ignoring the picturesque panorama in favor of the disorienting detail. The tilted frame and dizzying viewpoint charge the picture with dynamism and instability, transforming a quiet street scene into a complex arrangement of shapes textures, and light. This image fully conveys Moholy-Nagy's unconventional vision, and his fascination for a pictorial realm midway between the conventional categories of "realism" and abstraction."

Another aerial view by Moholy of a street in Rothenburg is in the collection of the Getty Museum, where it is dated as 1926-28.