Albert Renger-Patzsch - Still Life with Tools

Albert Renger-Patzsch - Still Life with Tools

(Modernism in Central Europe - Exhibition at the Washington National Gallery)

Still Life with Tools - I remained astonished by the beauty of the photo. Then I saw at the exhibition another work of Renger-Patzsch, Glasses.

Die Welt ist schön was published by Renger-Patzsch in 1927. This book is a collection of one hundred of his photographs in which natural forms, industrial subjects and mass-produced objects are presented with the clarity of scientific illustrations. In its sharply focused and matter-of-fact style his work exemplifies the esthetic of the New Objectivity that flourished in the arts in Germany during the Weimar Republic (Wikipedia).

Here are some more images: Glasses (1927), Kaffee Hag (Bremen, 1925), Maschinenhammer (1927), Zollverein (Essen, 1929)

(Modernism in Central Europe)