Zeche Katharina Essen

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Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897-1966)
Zeche Katharina Essen
titled and dated 'Zeche Katharina Essen 1956' and stamped with the photographer's credit stamp (on the reverse)
gelatin silver print
8 7/8 x 6½in. (22.5 x 16.5cm.)
Executed in 1956

Provenance

Galerie Ulrich Fiedler, Cologne.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1997.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

'If he is a great master of technique, then in a moment [the photographer] can conjure up things which will call for days of effort from the artist, or may even be totally inaccessible to him, in realms which are the natural home of photography. Whether it be as the sovereign mistress of the fleeting moment, or in analysis of individual phases of rapid movement; whether to create a permanent record of the transient beauty of flowers, or to reproduce the dynamism of modern technology'

(A. Renger-Patzsch, quoted in D. Kuspit, Albert Renger-Patzsch: Joy Before the Object, New York 1993, n.p.)

Zeche Katharina Essen

Lot Essay

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