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This picture shows the following artwork: Albert Renger-Patzsch. Buhne (Breakwater). 1925.
This picture shows the following artwork: Albert Renger-Patzsch. Buhne (Breakwater). 1925.
This picture shows the following artwork: Albert Renger-Patzsch. Buhne (Breakwater). 1925.
This picture shows the following artwork: Albert Renger-Patzsch. Buhne (Breakwater). 1925.
This picture shows the following artwork: Albert Renger-Patzsch. Buhne (Breakwater). 1925.
This picture shows the following artwork: Albert Renger-Patzsch. Buhne (Breakwater). 1925.
This picture shows the following artwork: Albert Renger-Patzsch. Buhne (Breakwater). 1925.
This picture shows the following artwork: Albert Renger-Patzsch. Buhne (Breakwater). 1925.
1890 Albert Renger-Patzsch

Würzburg 1897 – 1966 Wamel near Soest

Buhne (Breakwater). 1925

Vintage. Gelatin silver print. Agfa Brovira paper. 38,1 × 28,3 cm (15 × 11 ⅛ in.). Photographer's stamp on the reverse: "A. RENGER-PATZSCH / WAMEL-DORF ÜBER SOEST I.W.“ as well as dated: "1925" and archive number: "L 2" by Albert Renger-Patzsch in pencil. [2012]

Provenance

From Albert Renger-Patzsch in the 1950s to the current owner

EUR 7,000

 

- 9,000

Auction 757

Sunday, October 19th 2025, 6:00 PM

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Condition Report: In very good condition. Satin finish heavy paper. Blacklight tested, no fluorescence. Occasional small retouchings and 1-2 extremely thin scratch lines, perceptible only in raking light

Literature and illustration

Albert Renger-Patzsch: Die Welt ist schön, Munich 1928 (Reprint Dortmund 1992), pl. 41 / Exh. cat.: Albert Renger-Patzsch. Der Fotograf der Dinge. Essen, Ruhrland- und Heimatmuseum, 1966/67, cat. no. 11, pl. 5 / Exh. cat.: Albert Renger-Patzsch. 100 Photographien 1928. Galerie Schürmann & Kicken. Paris, Beaubourg; Bielefeld, Kunsthalle; Munich, Neue Sammlung, 1979, p. 6 / Ann und Jürgen Wilde und Thomas Weski (ed.): Albert Renger-Patzsch. Meisterwerke. Munich 1997, pl. 7 / Exh. cat.: Albert Renger-Patzsch. Bilder aus der Fotografischen Sammlung und dem Girardet-Foto-Archiv der Ruhr-Universität Bochum im Museum Folkwang. Essen, Museum Folkwang, 1997, p. 125 / Exh. cat. Albert Renger-Patzsch. Madrid, Fundacíon MAPFRE; Paris, Jeu de Paume, 2017/18, p. 93 (there titled: Buhne bei Flut)

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