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Albert Renger-Patzsch
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Sabine Renger, 1965, Winter, Portrait of Albert Renger-Patzsch, Gelatin silver print, Van Ham Fine Art Auctions, LL/44894
Albert Renger-Patzsch


Born: 1897, 22 June - Germany, Würzburg
Died: 1966, 27 September - Germany, Wamel bei Soest
Gender: Male
Active: Germany
 
A technically brilliant photographer who took a wide range of subject matter from industrial, still lives, landscapes and flowers. One of the medium‘s great realists, Renger-Patzsch brought a razor sharp, analytical vision to his photography, also working as a press, advertising and industrial photographer and war correspondent.
 
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Salvatore Piermarini, n.d., Portrait of Albert Renger-Patzsch, Hanover 1928, Drawing, Provided by the artist - Salvatore Piermarini, LL/59139
Image: LL/59139
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Fritz Kempe, 1960 (ca, taken) 1981 (print), Albert Renger-Patzsch, Gelatin silver print, Ostlicht - Gallery for Photography, LL/115388
Image: LL/115388
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Sabine Renger, 1965, Winter, Portrait of Albert Renger-Patzsch, Gelatin silver print, Van Ham Fine Art Auctions, LL/44894
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A proponent of photography's Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity.) Renger-Patzsch's collection of 100 photographs of nature and industry, Die Welt ist Schon (The World is Beautiful) published in 1928, exemplifies the rationality, precision, and faithfulness to subject he characterized as inherent photographic qualities. A purist, Renger-Patzsch helped define photography in the late 1920s and 1930s as a unique, autonomous art form with realism at its essence. His precisely crafted images of natural and factory made objects eschewed subjective influences, and strove to reveal, with rational purity, the material world's order and beauty.
 
(Author: GW)
 
Michael Peres (Editor-in-Chief), 2007, Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, 4th edition, (Focal Press) [ISBN-10: 0240807405, ISBN-13: 978-0240807409] (Used with permission)
 
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Albert Renger-Patzsch (June 22, 1897 - September 27, 1966) was a German photographer associated with the New Objectivity.
 

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