Untitled (country road)
Artist
Albert Renger-Patzsch
(German, 1897 - 1966)
Dateca. 1935
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 6 9/16 × 8 15/16 inches (16.67 × 22.7 cm)
Sheet: 6 11/16 × 9 inches (16.99 × 22.86 cm)
Sheet: 6 11/16 × 9 inches (16.99 × 22.86 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2017.61.29
SignedArtist’s stamp on sheet verso, upper right, in blue ink: “RENGER-FOTO D.W.B. / ESSEN, GOETHESTR.41”;
On sheet verso, top, blue stamp: “JEDE REPRODUKTION / VERBOTEN”
Inscribednone
Markingsnone
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DescriptionImage of a winding dirt road leading uphill. The road is lined with tall barren trees and a handmade fence with wooden posts and barbed wired.Exhibition HistoryRotation 26. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 29, 2019- August 25, 2019, no cat.
Working in the modernist New Objectivity style of the 1920s and 1930s, Albert Renger-Patzsch made boldly geometric studies of natural and industrial subjects. His influential book, Die Welt ist schon (The World is Beautiful), published in 1928, included 100 images of highly detailed, crisply focused subjects. Renger-Patzsch was known internationally, and had a significant influence on American modernists of the period.
Purchased from Photographs, No. 8674, Christie's, New York, NY, June 26, 1997, lot 151 by Howard Stein (1926-2011) , New York, NY, 1997;
Given by Howard Stein to The Joy of Giving Foundation, New York, NY;
Purchased at The Joy of Giving Foundation's sale The Odyssey of Collecting: Photographs from Joy of Giving Something, Phillips, New York, NY, April 3, 2017, lot 68 by the Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2017;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.
Given by Howard Stein to The Joy of Giving Foundation, New York, NY;
Purchased at The Joy of Giving Foundation's sale The Odyssey of Collecting: Photographs from Joy of Giving Something, Phillips, New York, NY, April 3, 2017, lot 68 by the Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2017;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.
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