Albert Renger-Patzsch

This is a study of the work of the influential German photographer, Albert Renger-Patzsch, who is considered by many to be the father of modern European photography. Amidst the climate of intellectual, artistic, and political ferment in 1920s Germany, the idea of "beauty" was being redefined. A new aesthetic burst forth, expressed through the glass and steel of the Bauhaus, in the graphics used by the new advertising agencies, on artists' easels, and in the theatre. Chief among these innovators whose work would alter the way we perceive reality was Albert Renger-Patzsch. Albert Renger-Patzsch was born in 1897 in Wurzburg, Germany, and began taking photographs at the age of 12. In 1922 he became the director of the picture department of the Folkwang Archive and the Auriga Publishing House, where he collaborated on the book "The World of Plants". He moved to Essen in 1928 and become a photography teacher, but quit after a year due to political differences. After World War II he devoted most of this time to landscape photography.
 
This is a study of the work of the influential German photographer, Albert Renger-Patzsch, who is considered by many to be the father of modern European photography. Amidst the climate of intellectual, artistic, and political ferment in 1920s Germany, the idea of "beauty" was being redefined. A new aesthetic burst forth, expressed through the glass and steel of the Bauhaus, in the graphics used by the new advertising agencies, on artists' easels, and in the theatre. Chief among these innovators whose work would alter the way we perceive reality was Albert Renger-Patzsch. Albert Renger-Patzsch was born in 1897 in Wurzburg, Germany, and began taking photographs at the age of 12. In 1922 he became the director of the picture department of the Folkwang Archive and the Auriga Publishing House, where he collaborated on the book "The World of Plants". He moved to Essen in 1928 and become a photography teacher, but quit after a year due to political differences. After World War II he devoted most of this time to landscape photography.