Tree
Artist: Albert Renger-Patzsch (German, 1897-1966)
Date: 1930?
Dimensions:
8 7/8 x 6 1/2 in. (22.5 x 16.6 cm)
Medium: Vintage gelatin-silver print
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1985.44
Label Text:Albert Renger-Patzsch is considered a pioneer of the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit) in German photography of the 1920s. New Objectivity was a post-WWI art movement stressing a renewed realism coupled with a strong sense of social criticism. Renger-Patzsch’s photographs are often close-ups of nature or man-made objects, emphasizing texture, design, and form. This image is one of a series that Renger-Patzsch did of trees in the early 1930s. It’s essentially a portrait—a thick, gnarled brute with limbs akimbo.
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