Artist Monograph

Albert Renger-Patzsch, German

German, 1897–1966

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Production by Decade

10

1920s

4

1930s

2

1950s

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	6	37.5%
Medium (30–100 cm)	10	62.5%

Range: 22.5 cm → 38.6 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1964	1
1966	1
1967	4
1981	1
1983	1
1988	1
1992	1
2001	1
2016	1
2017	4

German Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 16 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Echeveria Photograph Acc. 146.1967	1922	Gelatin silver print	15 3/16 × 11 1/4" (38.6 × 28.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Foxglove (Fingerhut) Photograph Acc. 77.1966	1922	Gelatin silver print	15 × 9 1/4" (38.1 × 23.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
Heterotrichum Macrodon Photograph Acc. 147.1967	1922	Gelatin silver print	15 1/16 × 11 1/4" (38.3 × 28.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Potter's Hands Photograph Acc. 148.1967	1925	Gelatin silver print	15 × 11 3/16" (38.2 × 28.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Hamadryas Baboon Photograph Acc. 227.2017	1928	Gelatin silver print	9 × 6 5/8" (22.9 × 16.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Thomas Walther Collection. Gift of James Thrall Soby, by exchange
Iron Hand, Essen Photograph Acc. 1818.2001	1929	Gelatin silver print	14 13/16 × 10 3/4" (37.6 × 27.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Thomas Walther Collection. Gift of Shirley C. Burden, by exchange
Pitmen's houses in Essen, Stoppenberg Photograph Acc. 230.2017	1929	Gelatin silver print	10 3/4 × 14 13/16" (27.3 × 37.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Thomas Walther Collection. Gift of James Thrall Soby, by exchange
Street in Essen-Segeroth Photograph Acc. 228.2017	1929	Gelatin silver print	14 11/16 × 10 3/4" (37.3 × 27.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Thomas Walther Collection. Gift of David H. McAlpin, by exchange
The Little Tree Photograph Acc. 47.1981	1929	Gelatin silver print	8 15/16 × 6 9/16" (22.7 × 16.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Acquired through the generosity of Paul F. Walter
Untitled (Essen) Photograph Acc. 229.2017	1929	Gelatin silver print	14 3/4 × 10 13/16" (37.5 × 27.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Thomas Walther Collection. Gift of David H. McAlpin, by exchange
Street in Essen Photograph Acc. 150.1967	1930	Gelatin silver print	15 3/16 × 11 3/16" (38.6 × 28.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Untitled Photograph Acc. 92.1988	c. 1930	Gelatin silver print	6 3/4 × 9 1/16" (17.2 × 23 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Partial gift of David H. McAlpin, by exchange
Window of a Building by Hanns Schwippert Photograph Acc. 196.1983	1930	Gelatin silver print	8 15/16 × 6 5/8" (22.7 × 16.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
Buchenwald im Herbst Photograph Acc. 497.2016	c. 1935	Gelatin silver print	8 7/8 × 6 9/16" (22.6 × 16.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Robert B. Menschel
Pine Trees in Nuremberg State Forest Photograph Acc. 363.1992	c. 1955	Gelatin silver print	8 7/8 × 6 1/2" (22.5 × 16.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Virginia Zabriskie
Winter Landscape with Oak Grove, Wamel Photograph Acc. 104.1964	c. 1955	Gelatin silver print	10 15/16 × 15 1/8" (27.9 × 38.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist