Industrial photography from nearly 100 years Unpublished photographs by Albert Renger-Patzsch and Robert Häusser Since its founding in 1927/28, Ruhrchemie AG has been able to document its own history photographically like perhaps no other company. In addition to numerous professional and amateur photographers whose photographs found their way into company magazines and other publications, Ruhrchemie also commissioned luminaries such as Albert Renger-Patzsch and Robert Häusser. Renger-Patzsch's cool approach, striving for objectivity, offered the ideal form for representing industrial architecture and engineering buildings. In contrast to his mostly deserted photographs, people at their workplaces formed a central focus of Häusser's photographic examination of Ruhrchemie. In addition to the black-and-white photographs typical of him, the.