IN WINTER. Photographs by Albert Renger-Patzsch from the 1920s to the 1960s from the Ann and Jürgen Wilde Foundation

Landscape and winter photographs represent a special subject and a particular photographic challenge for Albert Renger-Patzsch. Due to the snow, ice, and light conditions in winter, nature is reduced to extreme contrasts, enabling fascinating photographic images. However, it was not only an interest in graphic image compositions that the Neue Sachlichkeit photographer and passionate skier Renger-Patzsch wanted to convey, but also his depiction of the extraordinary atmosphere and the “magic.” For, as he wrote in 1926, “In winter the earth is radiant with festive brightness, and in the snow the sun fractures into a thousand sparkles.” The exhibition presents photographs from the Albert Renger-Patzsch Archive of the Ann and Jürgen Wilde Foundation that were taken in the Ruhr area as well as the Ore and Harz mountain ranges from the 1920s to the 1960s.