Albert RengerPatzsch

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Albert Renger-Patzsch

• By Kristina Perez

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Albert

• He is a photographer.
• He was born in June 22,1897 in a place called
  Wurzburg Germany, and he died in 1966.
• He was part of the movement called Neue
  Sachlichkeit, or in English New Objectivity.

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More About Albert

• After his teenage years, he decided to join the
  army. That didnt last for more than 2 years.
  Since he was still young he decided to go to
  college and study chemistry. Later on he got he
  professional started by making images for 2
  books in a series called The World of the
  Plants.
• His most famous work was a book called The world
  is beautiful, which was done in 1928.
• His first museum exhibition was in 1927.
• Many of his photographs come from the college
  courses he took. He took many science classes and
  he took many pictures of plants.

He was in the army for
no more than 2 years during World War 1.
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How it all started

• He was a teenager when he started getting
  interested in photography. His father was an
  amatuer photographer and had the most influence
  of him getting interested in photography.
• Knopfe, 1947?

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Anything Unique About His Photography?

• He had a lot of nature objects and tended to have
  a lot of his pictures be in some sort of pattern.
  There was also a lot of machinery or mechanical
  objects as well. --gt
• His pictures werent just taken as a full object.
  For example if he took a picture of a glass he
  wouldnt just take it of the glass as a person
  would see it, but he would aim his camera in a
  certain direction of the glass and have a
  different view.

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WWII

• During World War II, his studio got blasted and
  almost 18,000 negatives got destroyed as the
  result.
• He moved away after this happened.

? World War 2 were the results of the loss of
many negatives.
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Other Stuff

• In 1960 he got the German Society for Photography
  Culture Prize.
• His Photography is considered Idealism (type of
  art) and is very masculine.

? Just an old camera.
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His Work

• ? Adder's Head, Taken in 1925.
• ? Beech Forest, Taken in 1936.

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His Work Cont.
Orangutan

• Am Fichtelberg,Taken in 1935

? Isolatorenkette, Taken in 1925
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References

• http//www.britannica.com
• http//www.temple.edu
• http//photography.about.com
• http//www.tate.org.uk
• http//www.wikipedia.org
• http//mitpress.mit.edu
• http//www.artcyclopedia.com
• http//www.answers.com
• http//www.clevelandart.org