Photographs

AUGUST SANDER | PORTRAIT OF GERD ARNTZ

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April 3, 05:03 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 9,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

AUGUST SANDER

1876-1964

PORTRAIT OF GERD ARNTZ

with annotations and date in pencil on the reverse, 1925 (Zeitgenossen: August Sander und Kunstszene der 20er Jahre im Rheinland, pp. 77 and 214, variant)

7¾ by 5⅞ in. (19.7 by 14.9 cm.)

Please note the correct estimate for this lot is $6,000 – 9,000 and not $10,000 – 15,000 as stated in the printed catalogue.

The photographer to Gerd Arntz, 1920s or early 1930s

By descent to the present owners

Gerd Arntz (1900-1988) was a key figure in both the ‘Young Rhineland’ circle of artists in Düsseldorf and the ‘Cologne Progressives.’ Primarily working in woodcut and linocut, Arntz created more than 4,000 pictograms for the visual dictionary of the Isotype, a pictoril method of conveying data. Arntz sat for Sander on at least two occasions before emigrating to The Hague in 1934. The photographs in lots 68-71 are from the Gerd Arntz Estate.