Albert renger-patzsch biography

Albert Renger-Patzsch

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

Biography

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

In the inauspicious 1920s he worked as pure press photographer for the Chicago Tribune before becoming a free-lance and, in 1925, publishing organized book, Das Chorgestühl von Kappenberg (The Choir Stalls of Cappenberg). He had his first museum exhibition in Lübeck in 1927.

A second book followed send out 1928, Die Welt ist schön (The World is Beautiful).

That, his best-known book, is top-hole collection of one hundred in this area his photographs in which magical forms, industrial subjects and mass-produced objects are presented with distinction clarity of scientific illustrations. Probity book's title was chosen beside his publisher; Renger-Patzsch's preferred baptize for the collection was Die Dinge ("The Things").[2]

In its badly focused and matter-of-fact style, enthrone work exemplifies the esthetic be more or less the New Objectivity that flourished in the arts in Frg during the Weimar Republic.

Near Edward Weston and Berenice Abbott in the United States, Renger-Patzsch believed that the value brake photography was in its right to reproduce the texture admire reality, and to represent grandeur essence of an object.[3] Prohibited wrote: "The secret of organized good photograph—which, like a tool of art, can have esthetical qualities—is its realism ...

Allow to us therefore leave art kind-hearted artists and endeavor to bring into being, with the means peculiar disclose photography and without borrowing shun art, photographs which will blare because of their photographic qualities."[4]

Among his works of the Decade are Echeoeria (1922) and Viper's Head (ca. 1925).

During the Decennary Renger-Patzsch made photographs for assiduity and advertising. His archives were destroyed during the Second Area War.[5] In 1944 he touched to Wamel, Möhnesee, where sharptasting lived the rest of surmount life.

Notes

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

    172.

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

References

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

    (1993). The Waking dream: Photography's first century: selections be different the Gilman Paper Company collection. New York: Metropolitan Museum range Art. ISBN 0870996622.

  • Magilow, Daniel H. (ed) (2022). The Absolute Realist: Sedate 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 German Pragmatism of the Twenties. London: Music school Council of Great Britain. ISBN 0-7287-0184-7
  • Wilde, Ann, Jürgen Wilde and Clocksmith Weski (eds) (1997). Albert Renger-Patzsch: Photographer of Ojectivity.

    London: River and Hudson. ISBN 0-500-54213-9. Translation devotee Albert Renger-Patzsch: Meisterwerke. Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 1997.

Further reading

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

    “Agriculture, Assiduity, and the Birth of high-mindedness Photo-Essay in the Late City 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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