Renger patzsch biography of albert renger-patzsch book

Albert Renger-Patzsch (June 22, 1897 – September 27, 1966) was a German photographer associated with the New Objectivity.

Biography

Renger-Patzsch was born in Würzburg and began making photographs by age twelve.^[1] After military service in the First World War he studied chemistry at the Königlich-Sächsisches Polytechnikum in Dresden.

Renger patzsch biography of albert renger-patzsch book

In the early 1920s he worked as a press photographer for the Chicago Tribune before becoming a freelancer and, in 1925, publishing a book, Das Chorgestühl von Kappenberg (The Choir Stalls of Cappenberg).

He had his first museum exhibition in Lübeck in 1927.

A second book followed in 1928, Die Welt ist schön (The World is Beautiful). This, his best-known book, is a collection of one hundred of his photographs in which natural forms, industrial subjects and mass-produced objects are presented with the clarity of scientific illustrations.

The book's title was chosen by his publisher; Renger-Patzsch