Albert Renger-Patzsch
Späte Industriephotographie
Museum Ludwig, Köln, DE, 1993
Marianne Bieger-Thielemann
pages 152
first edition
dimensions 27 × 22 cm, softcover
language German
ISBN 3-930054-10-8
ARTISTS
Albert Renger-Patzsch

He began taking photographs at the age of 12. After military service during World War I, he studied chemistry at Dresden Technical College. In the early 1920s he worked as a photographer for the Chicago Tribune before going freelance. Appointed professor and head of the department of pictorial photography at the Folkwangschule in Essen, he left the position after only two semesters because of Nazi oppression. Albert Renger-Patzsch is considered one of the most important figures of New Objectivity photography.