![[Factory Smokestack], Albert Renger-Patzsch, about 1925](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/23dde43f-8d78-4da1-b9ce-027c86068b9c/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg)
Albert Renger-PatzschGerman, 1897–1966[Factory Smokestack]
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Where is “[Factory Smokestack]” now? Collection: J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Not on view at present. Checked October 7, 2026.
Los Angeles, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
- Checked
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the work
This photograph encompasses both the grand scale of the smokestack and the intimate detail of the brick and mortar that went into its construction. Photographed from almost directly below looking straight up, the smokestack stands as a dizzying monument to industrial progress, dominating the sky like an ancient pyramid built in homage to the gods. The tower's placement just left of center, the meandering crack rising in the brick at the structure's center, and the spindly rail attached like a long-legged caterpillar to the smokestack at the right, however, serve to humanize the image by revealing subtle deviations from the industrial era's ideal of perfect regularity.
J. Paul Getty Museum
Details
- Accession number
- 84.XM.138.23
In the catalog
Sources
- J. Paul Getty Museum
- Image: J. Paul Getty Museum — ; In Copyright
