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Lot 175 Dα

Albert Renger-Patzsch - Die Welt ist schön

Auction 1050 - overview Cologne
29.05.2015, 14:30 - Photography
Estimate: 500 €
Result: 496 € (incl. premium)

Albert Renger-Patzsch

Die Welt ist schön
1928

Photobook. 28.8 x 22.2 cm. 226 pages. 100 plates after photographs by Albert Renger-Patzsch. Edited and with an introduction by Carl Georg Heise. Original blue cloth binding with silver embossed title on spine and vignette on front cover (design by Alfred Mahlau). First edition. Kurt Wolff Verlag, Munich. - With dedication of a former owner in ink on the half-title. Spine and at edges slightly faded..

Literature

Martin Parr, Gerry Badger (ed.), The Photobook: A History, Volume I, London et al. 2004, ill. p. 97