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This picture shows the following artwork: Albert Renger-Patzsch. Nordseewelle (North Sea Wave). 1925.
This picture shows the following artwork: Albert Renger-Patzsch. Nordseewelle (North Sea Wave). 1925.
This picture shows the following artwork: Albert Renger-Patzsch. Nordseewelle (North Sea Wave). 1925.
This picture shows the following artwork: Albert Renger-Patzsch. Nordseewelle (North Sea Wave). 1925.
This picture shows the following artwork: Albert Renger-Patzsch. Nordseewelle (North Sea Wave). 1925.
This picture shows the following artwork: Albert Renger-Patzsch. Nordseewelle (North Sea Wave). 1925.
This picture shows the following artwork: Albert Renger-Patzsch. Nordseewelle (North Sea Wave). 1925.
This picture shows the following artwork: Albert Renger-Patzsch. Nordseewelle (North Sea Wave). 1925.
1891 Albert Renger-Patzsch

Würzburg 1897 – 1966 Wamel near Soest

Nordseewelle (North Sea Wave). 1925

Vintage. Gelatin silver print. Agfa Brovira paper. 28,2 × 38,3 cm (11 ⅛ × 15 ⅛ in.). Photographer's stamp on the reverse: "A. RENGER-PATZSCH / WAMEL-DORF ÜBER SOEST I.W.“ as well as dated: "1925" and Archiv-Nr.: "L 7" 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. In raking light numerous small retouchings (strokes and dots). Corners and in places edges minimally bumped

Literature and illustration

Exh. cat.: Albert Renger-Patzsch. 100 Photographien 1928. Galerie Schürmann & Kicken. Paris, Beaubourg; Bielefeld, Kunsthalle; Munich, Neue Sammlung, 1979, p. 63 / Albert Renger-Patzsch: Die Welt ist schön, Munich 1928 (Reprint Dortmund 1992), pl. 40 / Ann und Jürgen Wilde und Thomas Weski (ed.): Albert Renger-Patzsch. Meisterwerke. Munich 1997, pl. 3 (there dated: 1926) / 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. 41 and p. 125 (there titled and dated: Welle, 1926) / Exh. cat. Albert Renger-Patzsch. Madrid, Fundacíon MAPFRE; Paris, Jeu de Paume, 2017/18, p. 93 (there titled and dated: Welle, 1926)

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