Photographs
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August Sander
Portrait of Gerd Arntz
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April 7, 05:24 PM GMT
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6,000 - 9,000 USD
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August Sander
1876 - 1964
Portrait of Gerd Arntz
gelatin silver print, with annotations and date in pencil on the reverse, 1925
image: 7 ¾ by 5 ⅞ in. (19.7 by 14.9 cm.)
The photographer to Gerd Arntz, 1920s or early 1930s
By descent through family
Zeitgenossen: August Sander und Kunstszene der 20er Jahre im Rheinland, pp. 77 and 214, variant
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 pictorial method of conveying data. Arntz sat for Sander on at least two occasions before emigrating to The Hague in 1934.