Sep 21, 2021 - Sale 2579

Sale 2579 - Lot 96

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500

ALBERT RENGER-PATZSCH (1897-1966)


Amphitheater.
Silver print, the image measuring 171.5x228.6 mm; 6 3/4x9 inches, with Renger-Patzsch's very faint hand stamp and numeric notation, in pencil, on verso. Circa 1935.

Albert Renger-Patzsch was a practitioner and advocate of the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) movement in Germany, which aimed to depict the world in a frank, objective manner. His photographs of landscapes and industrial studies intended to capture the essence of the object through his texturally detailed and realistic style.