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Albert Renger-Patzsch

Würzburg 1897 – 1966 Wamel b. Soest

„Arche Noah“ / Holzbohlenweg mit Kapuzinerkresse / Kiefer neben der Loggia des Roten Hauses. 1928

3 Vintages. Silbergelatineabzüge. Je ca. 16,9 × 22,8 cm (17,1 × 23,1 cm) (approx. 6 ⅝ × 9 in. (6 ¾ × 9 ⅛ in.)).
Auf diesem Bild ist das folgende Kunstwerk zu sehen: Albert Renger-Patzsch. „Arche Noah“ / Holzbohlenweg mit Kapuzinerkresse / Kiefer neben der Loggia des Roten Hauses. 1928.

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Photographie, Do, 04.06.2009

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3 Vintages. Silbergelatineabzüge. Je ca. 16,9 × 22,8 cm (17,1 × 23,1 cm) (approx. 6 ⅝ × 9 in. (6 ¾ × 9 ⅛ in.)). Je rückseitig mit Bleistift Archiv-Nr. und Photographenstempel, ein Photo zusätzlich mit blauer Tinte in Englisch beschriftet, mit Bleistift beziffert.

Lot 1284 to Lot 1293

The year 1928 marks one of the first major career breakthroughs of photographer Albert Renger-Patzsch. During this year, Renger-Patzsch’s book Die Welt ist schön, a collection of one hundred images, was published. These photographs gave the master of New Objectivity photography a first recognition. Until today, it is one of the most important photo books of the 1920s. The editor of the book, Carl Georg Heise, who was also the director of the St. Annen Museum in Lübeck, was one of Renger-Patzsch’s most important patrons. Heise not only promoted Renger-Patzsch’s photographs in exhibitions, books, and articles, but also provided the photographer with lucrative assignments. One of these assignments was to photograph the estate of the Warburg financier family: the Kösterberg along the Elbe river in Hamburg-Blankenese. The estate consisted of three country houses, built between 1795 and 1911, an English garden and an architectural garden, designed in 1925, with patios along the rivers’ bank that had been inspired by Mediterranean terraces. @In the mid-1990s, during her dissertation research on Renger-Patzsch, photo historian Victoria Heckert discovered sixty photographs of vegetal close-ups and landscape views which were previously unknown. Over decades, these photographs belonged in the collection of the Warburg family and had not been published until this day.

According to the archive’s numbering system, the historians assume a convolute of sixty-eight photographs. Furthermore, the archival numbers allow for a reconstruction of Renger-Patzsch’s photographic journey though the estate starting at the villas on top of the hill, then following across the lawns and paths all the way to the patios of the Roman garden with a view of the Elbe river. Similarly to his other works, the photographer applied his characteristic arrangement of image groups, which included close-ups, longshots, pictures of details as well as total views. The present selection of his photographs consists mainly of vegetal close-ups, a specialty of Renger-Patzsch, who since the early 1920s had produced a variety of vegetal photography for Erich Fuhrmann’s Folkwang Auriga publishing house. This assignment provided Renger-Patzsch with the skill to capture the condition and the individual character of each of his vegetal objects and moreover, to focus on them with careful precision and extreme attention to detail. The principles of his rigorous objectivity and faithfulness to the object are also exceptionally well-formulated in the Warburg series. Some of the series’ motifs were included in other publications, such as the image entitled "Seerosenteich" (Lot No. 1290, no illustration) in the book "Die Welt ist schön". Renger-Patzsch’s book on Hamburg, on the other hand, contains photographs depicting the view of the Elbe river and a view of the park of the Warburg estate. Heise, who had helped the photographer to publish the book on Hamburg, also bought several of these images for the museum’s collection of modern photography in Lübeck..

ehemals Familie Warburg, Hamburg, direkt vom Künstler erworben

Albert Renger-Patzsch, Parklandschaften. 60 Fotos für die Warburgs, hg. von Oliver Breitfeld, Hamburg 2005, S. 12, 18, 44

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