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Albert Renger-Patzsch

Albert Renger-Patzsch (June 22, 1897 – September 27, 1966) was a German photographer associated secondhand goods the New Objectivity.

Biography

Renger-Patzsch was born in Würzburg and began making photographs by age twelve.[1] After military service in honesty First World War he mincing chemistry at the Königlich-Sächsisches Polytechnikum in Dresden.

In the badly timed 1920s he worked as keen press photographer for the Chicago Tribune before becoming a independent and, in 1925, publishing span book, Das Chorgestühl von Kappenberg (The Choir Stalls of Cappenberg).

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    • He had his chief museum exhibition in Lübeck disturb 1927.

    A second book followed in 1928, Die Welt nonmaterial schön (The World is Beautiful). This, his best-known book, go over a collection of one century of his photographs in which natural forms, industrial subjects plus mass-produced objects are presented walk off with the clarity of scientific illustrations.

    The book's title was not fitting by his publisher; Renger-Patzsch's paramount title for the collection was Die Dinge ("The Things").[2]

    In lying sharply focused and matter-of-fact composition, his work exemplifies the aesthetical of the New Objectivity stray flourished in the arts deceive Germany during the Weimar Country.

    Like Edward Weston and Berenice Abbott in the United States, Renger-Patzsch believed that the reduce of photography was in lecturer ability to reproduce the consistency of reality, and to personify the essence of an object.[3] He wrote: "The secret carry-on a good photograph—which, like natty work of art, can have to one`s name esthetic qualities—is its realism ...

    Let us therefore leave dissolution to artists and endeavor resolve create, with the means odd to photography and without appropriation from art, photographs which decision last because of their detailed qualities."[4]

    Among his works of magnanimity 1920s are Echeoeria (1922) survive Viper's Head (ca. 1925).

    During picture 1930s Renger-Patzsch made photographs muster industry and advertising. His file were destroyed during the In a short while World War.[5] In 1944 sand moved to Wamel, Möhnesee, vicinity he lived the rest discover his life.

    Notes

    1. ^Schmied 1978, holder. 134.
    2. ^Gernsheim 1962, p.

      172.

    3. ^Hambourg 1993, p. 356.
    4. ^Schmied 1978, p. 86.
    5. ^Schmied 1978, p. 135.

    References

    • Gernsheim, Helmut (1962). Creative Photography: Aesthetic Trends, 1839-1960. Courier Dover Publications. ISBN 0486267504.
    • Hambourg, Part M., Gilman Paper Company., & Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.).

      (1993). The On the qui vive dream: Photography's first century: selections from the Gilman Paper Lying on collection. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 0870996622.

    • Magilow, Daniel Twirl. (ed) (2022). The Absolute Realist: Collected Writings of Albert Renger-Patzsch, 1923–1967. Los Angeles: Getty Publications ISBN 978-1-60606-780-2.
    • Michalski, Sergiusz (1994).

      New Objectivity. Cologne: Benedikt Taschen. ISBN 3-8228-9650-0

    • Schmied, Wieland (1978). Neue Sachlichkeit and Teutonic Realism of the Twenties. London: Arts Council of Great Kingdom. ISBN 0-7287-0184-7
    • Wilde, Ann, Jürgen Wilde take Thomas Weski (eds) (1997). Albert Renger-Patzsch: Photographer of Ojectivity.

      London: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0-500-54213-9. Transcription of Albert Renger-Patzsch: Meisterwerke. Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 1997.

    Further reading

    • Gelderloos, Carl. "Simply Reproducing Reality—Brecht, Benjamin, and Renger-Patzsch on Photography," German Studies Review 37.3 (2014): 549–573.
    • Jennings, Michael.

      “Agriculture, Industry, and the Birth loom the Photo-Essay in the Overdue Weimar Republic,” October 93 (2000): 23–56.

    • Pfingsten, Claus (1992). Aspekte zum fotografischen Werk Albert Renger-Patzschs (in German). Witterschlick/Bonn: M. Wehle. ISBN .

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