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August Sander

Handlager (Bricklayer)

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October 25, 04:33 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 9,000 USD

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August Sander

1876 - 1964

Handlager (Bricklayer)


gelatin silver print, with black borders, the photographer’s 'Köln–Lindenthal’ blindstamp on the image, signed and dated Gunther Sander, his son, in pencil on the reverse, tipped to velum, the August Sander Archive label on the reverse, framed, a Fraenkel Gallery label on the reverse, circa 1928, printed posthumously in 1980

image: 10⅜ by 7⅛ in. (26.4 by 18.1 cm.)

frame: 21⅝ by 17⅝ in. (54.9 by 44.8 cm.)

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, 2008
August Sander, and Alfred Döblin, Antlitz der Zeit: Sechzig Aufnahmen Deutscher Menschen des 20 Jahrhunderts (Munich, 1929), pl. 23

Gunther Sander, August Sander: Photographer Extraordinary (London, 1973), unpaginated

August Sander: Photographs of an Epoch (New York, 1980), p. 12

Christoph Schreier and Gerd Sander, August Sander: In Photography There Are No Unexplained Shadows (Cologne and London, 1996), p. 71

Gunther Sander, ed., August Sander: Citizens of the Twentieth Century (Cambridge, 1997), pl. 120

Manfred Heiting, ed., August Sander 1876-1964 (Cologne, 1999), cover and p. 57