Live Auction 8647Post-War and Contemporary Art
Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897-1966)
Lot 206

Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897-1966)

Zeche Katharina Essen

Closed17 April 2013

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GBP 3,250

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Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897-1966)
Zeche Katharina Essen
titled and dated 'Zeche Katharina Essen 1956' and stamped with the photographer's credit stamp (on the reverse)
gelatin silver print
8 7/8 x 6½in. (22.5 x 16.5cm.)
Executed in 1956

Galerie Ulrich Fiedler, Cologne.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1997.

Specialist note

'If he is a great master of technique, then in a moment [the photographer] can conjure up things which will call for days of effort from the artist, or may even be totally inaccessible to him, in realms which are the natural home of photography. Whether it be as the sovereign mistress of the fleeting moment, or in analysis of individual phases of rapid movement; whether to create a permanent record of the transient beauty of flowers, or to reproduce the dynamism of modern technology'

(A. Renger-Patzsch, quoted in D. Kuspit, Albert Renger-Patzsch: Joy Before the Object, New York 1993, n.p.)