Albert Renger-Patzsch
Germany (1897—1966)
After studying chemistry in Dresden he started working as director of the Picture Archive of the Folkwang Publishing Company in Hagen. He published his first photography book in 1925 when he started to work as a freelance photographer. Two years later he exhibited in Lübeck. He developed his style for sharp and absolutely fidelity pictures, setting out the New Objectivity movement. In 1928 he published a new book of photography in Die Welt ist schön, showing industrial culture and technology. Until WWII he worked in a studio at the Folkwang Museum Essen and taught at the Folkwang School. He participated to the exhibition Film and Foto in Stuttgart, producing a large volume of city landscapes and industrial sceneries.
The world is beautiful (Die Welt ist schön)
Photographic book / Half-tone / 21.2 x 28.4 cm / Munich, 1928 / © Kurt Wolff Verlag A.G. München
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Arts et métiers graphiques 16
Photographie / Magazine / 24 x 30.9 cm / Paris, 1930 (1980) / © 1930, Arts et Métiers Graphiques Paris
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Willi Baumeister / Naum Gabo / Lucia Moholy / Gerrit Rietveld / Paul Schuitema / Albert Renger-Patzsch / Max Burchartz / Martin Munkácsi / Vilmos Huszár / Georges Vantongerloo / Jean Arp / Wassily Kandinsky / Lajos Kassák / El Lissitzky (Lazar Markovich Lissitzky) / Kazimir Maljevič / László Moholy-Nagy / Kurt Schwitters / Piet Mondriaan
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Internationale revue / Magazine / Letterpress / 21 x 30 cm / Amsterdam, 1927-1929 (1978)
Andreas Feininger / John Heartfield / Lucia Moholy / Walter Peterhans / Franz Roh / Jan Tschichold / Umbo (Otto Umbehr) / Piet Zwart / Eugène Atget / Albert Renger-Patzsch / Max Burchartz / Hans Finsler / Arvid Gutschow / Brett Weston / Max Ernst / Florence Henri / El Lissitzky (Lazar Markovich Lissitzky) / László Moholy-Nagy / Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky)
Foto-auge
76 Fotos der Zeit / Photographic book with letterpress cover by El Lissitzky / Heliogravure / 20.6 x 29.2 cm / Stuttgart, 1929 (1973) / © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn