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Albert Renger-Patzsch
German
1897–1966
About the Artist
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Albert Renger-Patszch. Self-Portrait. Reproduced in “Eine neue Künstler-Gilde: Der Fotograf erobert Neuland” (A new artist guild: The photographer conquers new territory). UHU 6, no. 1 (October 1929). Courtesy Ann und Jürgen Wilde. © 2014 / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Germany
Meeting Points
- Cultural Hubs Berlin
- Photo Industry Hubs Berlin Rochester
- Schools Royal Photo Society, 1853–present
- Exhibitions Twenty-seven Photographers, 1932 Film und Foto, 1929 Foto der Gegenwart, 1929
- Publications Malerei, Photographie, Film, 1925 Sovetskoe foto, 1926–39 Das deutsche Lichtbild, 1927–38 Die Welt ist schön (Renger-Patzsch), 1928 Vu, 1928–31 Foto-Auge, 1929 Es kommt der neue Fotograf!, 1929
Artist Chronology
| June 22, 1897 |
Born
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Würzburg |
| Early childhood |
Father teaches him photography throughout his childhood
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Dresden Sondershausen |
| 1910 until summer 1916 |
Lives in Dresden
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Dresden |
| 1916–18 |
Drafted into the army. Completes basic training and then works as an assistant in a chemical center
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Berlin |
| September 14–October 14, 1928 |
Solo exhibition at the Kunstgewerbemuseum
Participant: Albert Renger-Patzsch
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Zurich |
| 1919–21 |
Studies chemistry at the Technische Hochschule
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Dresden |
| 1921 through spring 1923 |
Works at the Folkwang Verlag and at the Folkwang and Auriga Archiv in Hagen, where he is the head of photographic services
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Essen |
| Spring–late 1923 |
Serves as head of a photographic service agency
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Berlin |
| Late 1923–early 1924 |
Marries Agnes von Braunschweig and lives briefly in Kronstadt
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Brasov |
| 1924–25 |
Works at the Auriga Verlag, the successor of the Folkwang Verlag
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Darmstadt |
| 1925 |
Auriga publishes Renger-Patzsch's first book of photographs, Das Chorgestühl von Kappenberg
Contributor: Albert Renger-Patzsch
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Darmstadt |
| 1925 |
László Moholy-Nagy publishes Malerei, Photographie, Film
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Munich |
| Mid 1925–1929 |
Lives in Bad Harzburg, near Braunschweig. Becomes a freelance photographer and a member of the Deutscher Werkbund
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Bad Harzburg |
| 1927 |
Carl Georg Heise organizes an exhibition of Renger-Patzsch's photographic work at the Behnhaus
Participant: Albert Renger-Patzsch
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Lübeck |
| 1928 |
Publishes Die Welt ist schön
Contributor: Albert Renger-Patzsch
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Munich |
| February 12–March 5, 1928 |
Foto – Malerei – Architektur at Kunstschule Johannes Itten
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Berlin |
| March 25–May 6, 1928 |
Neue Wege der Photographie at Kunstverein Jena
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Jena |
| June 8–July 22, 1928 |
Kunst und Technik at the Museum Folkwang
Participant: Albert Renger-Patzsch, Sasha Stone
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Essen |
| August 10–21, 1928 |
Solo exhibition at the Grafisches Kabinett
Participant: Albert Renger-Patzsch
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Munich |
| January 1929 |
Kunst und Technik at Verein Berliner Künstler
Participant: Albert Renger-Patzsch, Sasha Stone
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Berlin |
| 1929 |
Franz Roh publishes Foto-Auge: 76 Fotos der Zeit
Contributor: Herbert Bayer, Max Burchartz, Florence Henri, El Lissitzky, Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky), László Moholy-Nagy, Walter A. Peterhans, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Maurice Tabard, Umbo (Otto Umbehr), Edward Weston, Franz Roh, Semyon Fridlyand, Robert Petschow, Sasha Stone, Dziga Vertov, Hans Finsler, Paul Edmund Hahn, J. Jay Hirz
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Stuttgart |
| 1929 |
Werner Graeff publishes Es kommt der neue Fotograf!
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Berlin |
| January 20–February 17, 1929 |
Fotografie der Gegenwart at Museum Folkwang
Kestner Gesellschaft v.V, Königstrasse 8, Hannover Galerie Neumann-Nierendorf, Lützowstrasse 32, Berlin Whitechapel Art Gallery, London Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt Leipziger Kunstverein, Augustusplatz 6, Leipzig Lichthof des Neuen Rathauses, Dresden Kunstverein, Rostock am Adolf-Mittag-See, Städtisches Ausstellungsamt, Magdeburg Landesgewerbeanstalt, Kaiserslautern Vereinigung Göttinger Kunstfreunde, Göttingen
Participant: Berenice Abbott, Herbert Bayer, Aenne Biermann, Max Burchartz, Florence Henri, Lotte Jacobi, André Kertész, Germaine Krull, El Lissitzky, Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky), László Moholy-Nagy, Walter A. Peterhans, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Hans Richter, August Sander, Umbo (Otto Umbehr), Lucia Moholy, Karl Blossfeldt, Erich Comeriner, Eli Lotar, Oskar Nerlinger, Robert Petschow, Frieda Gertrud Riess, Sasha Stone, Hans Finsler, Paul Edmund Hahn, Cami Stone
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Essen |
| May 18–July 7, 1929 |
Internationale Ausstellung des Deutschen Werkbunds Film und Foto (FiFo) at Städtische Ausstellungshallen
Kunstgewerbemuseum, Zurich Im Lichthof des Ehemaligen Kunstgewerbemuseums, Prinz-Albrechs-Strasse 7, Berlin Stadtmuseum, Danzig Österreichisches Museum, Vienna Agram, Zagreb Münchner Bund/Verein Ausstellungspark München E.V. (as part of Internationale Ausstellung. Das Lichtbild), Munich Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo Asahi Shimbun, Osaka
Participant: Berenice Abbott, Herbert Bayer, Aenne Biermann, Anton Bruehl, Francis Bruguière, Max Burchartz, Florence Henri, André Kertész, Germaine Krull, Helmar Lerski, El Lissitzky, Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky), László Moholy-Nagy, Walter A. Peterhans, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Hans Richter, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Charles Sheeler, Edward Steichen, Maurice Tabard, Umbo (Otto Umbehr), Edward Weston, Lucia Moholy, Werner Rohde, George Hoyningen-Huene, Gustav Klutsis, Karl Blossfeldt, Heinz Loew, Erich Comeriner, Semyon Fridlyand, Roman Karmen, Eli Lotar, Oskar Nerlinger, Robert Petschow, Sasha Stone, Dziga Vertov, Yva (Else Simon), Willy Zielke, Irene Bayer-Hecht, Hans Finsler, Cami Stone
Organizer: El Lissitzky, László Moholy-Nagy, Hans Richter, Edward Steichen, Edward Weston, Dziga Vertov
Visitor: Alexander Hackenschmied
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Stuttgart |
| 1929–44 |
Lives in Margaretenhohe, Essen. Has a studio and office in the Museum Folkwang
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Essen |
| 1930 |
Publishes Eisen und Stahl with photographs that he made in Ruhrgebeit in 1928
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Berlin |
| February 28–March 14, 1930 |
Solo exhibition at the Société Française de Photographie
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Paris |
| 1931 |
The first retrospective of his work is mounted at the Museum Folkwang
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Essen |
| 1932 |
Fotografien von Albert Renger-Patzsch, Umbo, Hugo Erfurth und Helmar Lerski at the St. Annen Museum
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Lübeck |
| July 27–September 7, 1932 |
Twenty-seven Photographers at Wertheim Gallery
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London |
| 1933–34 |
Albert Renger-Patzsch becomes Chair of photography at the Folkwangschule when Max Burchartz resigns
Affiliated: Max Burchartz
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Essen |
| November 7–19, 1933 |
Die Kamera. Ausstellung für Fotografie, Druck und Reproduktion at the exhibition halls of the radio tower
Participant: Walter A. Peterhans, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Umbo (Otto Umbehr), Werner Rohde, Willy Zielke
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Berlin |
| 1938–62 |
Develops friendship with Herman Hesse
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Ticino |
| Late 1938 |
Travels to Italy on a commission to make photographs of "hospital buildings in Europe"
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Rome Milan |
| March 1940 |
Solo exhibition at the Museum Folkwang
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Essen |
| 1943 |
Comissioned to photograph the Western defenses of the German occupying forces
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Argentan Brittany |
| 1944 |
A large part of his archive is destroyed in a bombing raid
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Essen |
| Late 1944–1966 |
Lives in Wamel
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Arnsberg |
| September 27, 1966 |
Dies
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Arnsberg |
