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ALBERT RENGER-PATZSCH (German, 1924-1966) GINKO BILOBA IM SCHLOSSGARTEN IN DRIBURG, ENDE, 50er J...

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ALBERT RENGER-PATZSCH (German, 1924-1966) GINKO BILOBA IM SCHLOSSGARTEN IN DRIBURG, ENDE, 50er J...
ALBERT RENGER-PATZSCH (German, 1924-1966) GINKO BILOBA IM SCHLOSSGARTEN IN DRIBURG, ENDE, 50er JAHRE "97 [illegible word] Ginko Biloba" inscribed in pencil on verso gelatin silver print 8 7/8 x 6 9/16 in. (22.5 x 16.7 cm) 1957 PROVENANCE Zabriskie Gallery, NEW YORK Private Collection, NEW YORK LITERATURE Sylvia Bohmer, ALBERT RENGER-PATZSCH, PHOTOGRAPHIEN, Aachen, 1993, pl. 31 (illustrated) After the devastation of World War II, Albert Renger-Patzsch abandoned the industrial landscape of Germany's Ruhr Valley, which he had photographed throughout the 1930s. In the final decades of his life, Renger-Patzsch returned to shooting nature, specifically parks and forests, producing some of the most lyrical images of his career. In the present work, for example, the dark, massive trunk of a Ginko Biloba is shrouded beneath a canopy of sun-dappled leaves. A sense of shady refuge is enhanced by the staircase in the right background, which welcomes the viewer into this romantic setting. "Compared to the depressing realism of his Ruhr photographs, with their peculiar sense of conscience, the freshness of Renger-Patzsch's photographs of the forest belongs to the world of fantasy. His photographs of trees and stones may be among his most imaginative and lonely and personal, that is, his least realistic. While he lingers lovingly over their details, they represent his return to the paradise where details signify nothing but themselves, and as such lack answerability" (Donald Kuspit, "Albert Renger-Patzch: A Critical-Biographical Profile," ALBERT RENGER-PATZSCH: JOY BEFORE THE OBJECT, New York: Aperture, 1993, p. 73).
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