Albert Renger-Patzsch
Das Bäumchen
1929
Vintage gelatin silver print on Kodak-Royal paper. 53.3 x 38 cm (56.5 x 40.6 cm). Mounted under original mat, signed in pencil below the image on the mat. - In original frame.
This photograph's large format, unusual for Renger-Patzsch, suggests that this print was made in 1933 during his few months of teaching at the Folkwang School in Essen, where he had the technical facilities to print on 60 x 50 cm large paper. As usual, when he gifted photographs to clients or friends, Renger-Patzsch framed the print under a mat he cut himself, which he tcarefully signed in pencil.
We thank Jürgen Wilde, Zülpich, for helpful information
Provenance
From the photographer to Arno Nowka (advertising manager of the Rhenish-Westphalian Coal Syndicate, Essen), from the latter to the present owners
Literature
Hans Windisch, Knipsen - aber mit Verstand! Ein Wegweiser für Amatöre, die gute Bilder machen wollen ("Neue Reihe", Ullstein-Sonderheft Nr. 9), Berlin 1933, n.pag., ill.; Albert Renger-Patzsch, Kleines Landschaftsbuch mit einem Geleitwort von Helene Henze, Münster 1947, ill. p. 15; Fritz Kempe, Albert Renger-Patzsch. Der Fotograf der Dinge, exhib.cat. Ruhrland- und Heimatmuseum Essen 1966, plate 9; Albert Renger-Patzsch. Bilder aus der Fotografischen Sammlung und dem Girardet-Foto-Archiv der Ruhr-Universität Bochum im Museum Folkwang, Essen, Essen 1997, ill. p. 85; Albert Renger-Patzsch. Joy Before the Object, exhib.cat. J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, New York 1993, ill. p. 13 and ill. on front cover; Ann and Jürgen Wilde/Thomas Weski (eds.), Albert Renger-Patzsch. Meisterwerke, Munich 1997, ill. 91