In 1937, at the invitation of Walter Paepcke, the Chairman of the Container Corporation of America, Moholy-Nagy moved to Chicago to become the director of the New Bauhaus.
V roku 1937, na pozvanie Valtera Paepcke, predsedu Container Corporation of America, sa Moholy-Nagy presťahoval do Chicaga, aby sa tu stal riaditeľom školy New Bauhaus.