Albert Renger-Patzsch
Germany (1897—1966)After studying chemistry in Dresden, he became head of the Picture Archive of the Folkwang Publishing Company in Hagen. He published his first photography book in 1925, when he began working as a freelance photographer. Two years later he exhibited in Lübeck. He developed his distinctive style of sharp and highly precise images, becoming a leading figure of the New Objectivity movement. In 1928 he published Die Welt ist schön, showing industrial culture and technology alongside nature and everyday objects. Until WWII, he worked in a studio at the Folkwang Museum in Essen and taught at the Folkwang School from 1933 to 1934. He participated in the Film und Foto exhibition in Stuttgart in 1929, producing a large body of city landscapes and industrial scenes.
