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Tree

Artist Albert Renger-Patzsch (German, 1897-1966)

Date1930?

Dimensions8 7/8 x 6 1/2 in. (22.5 x 16.6 cm)

MediumVintage gelatin-silver print

ClassificationPhotographs

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1985.44

Not on View

Label TextAlbert 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.Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Paper Roses: Garden-Inspired Works on Paper. Feb. 21-May 18, 2014.

Toledo Museum of Art, Looks Good on Paper: Masterworks and Favorites, Oct. 10, 2014-Jan. 11, 2015.