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Lot 21
  • 21

August Sander

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 EUR
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Description

  • August Sander
  • 'Eine Auswahl aus meinen Werken', 1954
  • photograph
Album avec 11 tirages argentiques des années 1950. 4 tirage sur papier Agfa-Brovira. Chaque tirage avec le timbre sec ‘August Sander Köln Lindenthal’ et avec les bords rehaussés à l'encre noire. Cahque tirage avec le tampon ‘August Sander Lichtbildner Kuchhausen bei Leuscheid/Sieg’ au verso. Individuellement montés sur carton original, signés et titrés au crayon sur le carton. Avec étiquettes tapuscrites au verso des cartons et avec feuilles transparentes protectrices d'origine fixées au verso des cartons. Dans le portfolio d'origine en toile verte dédicacé par le photographe au stylo à bille à Günther [sic!] Freigang.

Provenance

Du photographe à Günter Freigang
de ce dernier au propriétaire actuel

Literature

August Sander. Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts, Gruppe VII, Die letzten Menschen, Idioten, Kranke, Irre und die Materie, VII/ 45/ 7;
August Sander. Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts, Gruppe I, Der Bauer, Stammappe, I/ ST/ 6;
Kölnisches Stadtmuseum/ August Sander Archiv (éd.), August Sander. Köln wie es war. Werkausgabe, Cologne, 1995, ill. p. 203 (variante), ill. p. 463 (variante), ill. p. 139;
August Sander. Sardinien. Photographien einer Italienreise, 1927, cat. expo. SK Stiftung Kultur, Schirmer/ Mosel, Munich, 2011, ill. p. 155;
Olivier Lugon, August Sander Landschaften, Schirmer/ Mosel, Munich, 1999, ill. p. 141.

Condition

In excellent general condition. The prints are in generally excellent condition. With original retouching in places. Some corners of the cards occasionally minimally bumped. The original protective transparent foil mostly intact, with an occasional small tear at upper or lower left. The green linen portfolio in excellent condition.
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Catalogue Note

Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts: blinder Bergmann und Soldat, ca. 1930
Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts: Die Philosophin, 1913
”Köln wie es war“: Blick auf die Altstadt mit Rathausturm, c. 1938
”Köln wie es war“: Blick vom Messeturm, 1938
”Köln wie es war“: Antoniterkirche, 1920s/1930s
Siebengebirge, 1939
Sardinien: Kulturgeschichte, 1927
Siegtal: Leuscheid, 1952
Siegtal: Ecce Homo, ev. Kirche zu Leuscheid, c. 1950
Siegtal bei Eitorf, c. 1950
Geschlossenes Werk: ”Köln wie es war“, c. 1940s/50s