RENGER-PATZSCH, Albert. Die Welt ist Schön. [The World is Beautiful.] Munich: Kurt Wolff, 1928. 4° (287 x 213 mm). 100 black and white photographs. (Light spotting on the last plate.) Original blue cloth, spine and front cover blocked in silver, original pictorial dust jacket (tears and some large chips, large faint stain on the back panel).
FIRST EDITION, IN THE RARE DUST-JACKET. 'One of the best-known titles in photobook history' (The Photobook). 101 Books, pp.50-51 ('the New Objectivity style he sparked was one of Germany's most pervasive modernist movements'); Auer, p.134; The Open Book, pp.68-9; The Photobook, vol. I, p.97.
RENGER-PATZSCH, Albert. Die Welt ist Schön. [The World is Beautiful.] Munich: Kurt Wolff, 1928. 4° (287 x 213 mm). 100 black and white photographs. (Light spotting on the last plate.) Original blue cloth, spine and front cover blocked in silver, original pictorial dust jacket (tears and some large chips, large faint stain on the back panel).
FIRST EDITION, IN THE RARE DUST-JACKET. 'One of the best-known titles in photobook history' (The Photobook). 101 Books, pp.50-51 ('the New Objectivity style he sparked was one of Germany's most pervasive modernist movements'); Auer, p.134; The Open Book, pp.68-9; The Photobook, vol. I, p.97.
![RENGER-PATZSCH, Albert. Die Welt ist Schön. [The World is Beautiful.] Munich: Kurt Wolff, 1928. 4° (287 x 213 mm). 100 black and white photographs. (Light spotting on the last plate.) Original blue cloth, spine and front cover blocked in silver, original pictorial dust jacket (tears and some large chips, large faint stain on the back panel).](https://devapim.christies.com/uat/lot-images/5505170/2011/CSK/2011_CSK_03013_0426_000(renger-patzsch_albert_die_welt_ist_schon_the_world_is_beautiful_munich024522).jpg?maxwidth=3840)