August Sander

Biography

Sander, sons of minor, work, as of the end the obligatory school, like boy of spoil heap in the mining installations of the surroundings of its birthplace, Herdorf. It is for the first time in contact with the Photographie, by assisting a photographer who works for the mining development company. With the financial aid of an uncle, it can buy photo equipment and settle a Laboratoire.

Another milestone along the way of its professionalisation will be the military service (1897-1899), with Trier, where, as an assistant of a photographer, it can acquire other experiments. With its recommendations, it then will travel during two years, and that will lead it inter alia to Berlin, Magdeburg, Halle (Saale), Leipzig and Dresden (Dresden, short follow-up of an artistic teaching).

In 1901, it becomes employed of a studio of photograph with Linz on the Danube; the following year he is joint owner and in 1904 entirely owner.

In 1902, it marries his Anna wife, from this union, are born four children.

In 1910, it gives its business of Linz and will be established with Cologne, where it founds a new studio. During the First World War, it is useful in the Landsturm .

At the beginning of the years 1920, Sander is in liaison with the progressive artists of Cologne and finds in this circle a strong resonance; inter alia in a narrow exchange with the artists Franz Wilhelm Seiwert and Heinrich Hoerle but also with Gerd Arntz, Gottfried Brockmann, Otto Freundlich, Raoul Hausmann and Stanislaw Kubicki (Berlin), Hans Schmitz, Augustin Tschinkel (Prague/Cologne) and Peter Alma (Amsterdam). Moreover, Sander is close to the painters, Jankel Adler, Otto Ten, Heinrich Pilger and Anton Räderscheidt. It is also in liaison with musicians, writers, architects and actors of which much has their portraits made by August Sander and are in his great work Menschen of the 20. Jahrhunderts ( Men of the 20th century ). For them, it develops, towards 1925, a concept which however will exceed the simple topic of the portrait of artists, to cover a broad spectrum of the socio-professional classes of the time, approximately 600 professions, divided into seven groups.

In 1927, Sander undertakes a voyage approximately three months in Sardinia, with the author Ludwig Mathar, it makes approximately 500 photographs. The publication of a book envisaged on this voyage fails.

In 1929, it publishes a first book Antlitz der Zeit ( Face of time ), a choice of 60 portraits of Menschen of the 20. Jahrhunderts ( the Man of the 20th century ).

The Nazism strongly affects its work and its personal life. His/her Erich son, member of the Sozialistischen Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands (SAP), (working Socialist party of Germany), is stopped in 1934, its editor is condemned to 10 years. In 1936, its book Antlitz der Zeit (face of time) is seized and the destroyed printed specimens.

During the war, it moves its Lebensmittelpunkt (official place of dwelling for food rationing) in Kuchhausen in the the Westerwald, where it can bring and put in safety the majority of its negative and its photographs before the bombardments. Its studio is destroyed in 1944 by an air attack.

In 1946, Sander begins a vast series of images on the destruction of the war in Cologne.

Its tomb is in Melaten-Friedhof, principal cemetery of Cologne.

Its photography

The work of August Sander includes/understands urban photography, natural landscapes and photography of industrial architecture. It is especially famous for its portraits, such as for example, those of the series of Menschen of the 20. Jahrhunderts ( the Man of the 20th century ). In this series, it tried to make a transverse section of the company of the time of the Weimar Republic. Starting with the portraits of peasants of the Westerwald, it subdivides its work in seven groups: " Agriculteurs" , " artisans" , " femmes" , " states, " artists, " the ville" and " the last hommes" .

The files of August Sander found their place in the photographic collection of the cultural foundation of Cologne (see the external bonds).

Its work

; Work published of alive sound

August Sander: Antlitz der Zeit. Sechzig Aufnahmen deutscher Menschen of the 20. Jahrhunderts with a foreword of Alfred Döblin. Kurt Wolf/Transmare Verlag, Erstausgabe Munich 1929

other editions German Schirmer/Mosel, Munich 1976,1990
French edition: Schirmer/Mosel, Munich 1990
English edition: Schirmer/Mosel, Munich 1994

August Sander: Deutschenspiegel. Menschen of the 20. Jahrhunderts . Preface Heinrich Lützeler, Sigbert Mohn Verlag, Gütersloh 1962
August Sander photographiert: Deutsche Menschen in: OF. Kulturelle Monatsschrift NR. 225, with a text of Alfred Döblin, Manual Gasser and Golo Mann, Zurich, November 1959

; Work published on a purely posthumous basis

August Sander: Menschen ohne Maske . MIT einem Text von Gunter Sander und einem Vorwort von Golo Mann, Luzern - Frankfurt/Hand 1971
August Sander: Rheinlandschaften. Photographien 1929-1946 . MIT einem Text von Wolfgang Kemp, Munich 1975
August Sander: Die Zerstörung Kölns. Photographien 1945-1946 . Hrsg. Winfried Ranke, Munich 1985
August Sander: Köln, wie be war . Bearbeitet von Rolf Sachsse, Hrsg. Werner Schäfke, Cologne 1988
August Sander: „In der Photographie gibt be keine Schatten “. Catalog exposure August Sander Archives/Stiftung City-Treff, Köln, with a text of Christoph Schreier and Gerd Sander, Ars Nicolai, Berlin 1994
August Sander: Photographien 1902 -1939 . Text of Susanne Lange and Gabriele Conrath-Scholl. Editor: Kulturstiftung D. Länder in Verbindung Mr. D. Kulturstiftung der Stadtsparkasse Cologne
August Sander: Köln wie be war . August Sander Werkausgabe. Editor: August Sander Archiv, Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, ISBN 3927396656
August Sander, Karl Blossfeldt, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Bernd und Hilla Beaker: Vergleichende Konzeptionen . Editor: Die Photographische Sammlung/Sk Stiftung Kultur, Cologne. Text: Susanne Lange, Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, Anne Ganteführer, Virginia Heckert. Schirmer/Mosel, Munich/Paris/London 1997, ISBN 3888147573
August Sander: Landschaften . Editor: Die Photographische Sammlung/Sk Stiftung Kultur, Köln. Text: Olivier Lugon, Schirmer/Mosel, Munich/Paris/London 1999, ISBN 3888147972
Zeitgenossen. August Sander und die Kunstszene DER 20er Jahre im Rheinland . Editor: Die Photographische Sammlung/Sk Stiftung Kultur, Cologne. Steidel, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3882437502
August Sander: Menschen of the 20. Jahrhunderts . Studienband. Editor: Die Photographische Sammlung/Sk Stiftung Kultur, Cologne. Design: Susanne Lange U. Gabriele Conrath-Scholl. Text: Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, Otto daN, Janos Frecot, L. Fritz Gruber, Klaus Honnef, Susanne Lange, Olivier Lugon, Otfried Schütz, Thomas Wiegand. Schirmer/Mosel, Munich 2001
August Sander: Menschen of the 20. Jahrhunderts: Ein Kulturwerk in Lichtbildern eingeteilt in sieben Gruppen . Editor: Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne. Design and new page layout of Susanne Lange, Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, Gerd Sander, 7 Bände (dt., engl. U. frz.), Schirmer/Mosel, Munich 2002, ISBN 3829600062

Exposures

The most important exposures of August Sander ; of alive sound

1906 Große Ausstellung photographischer Bildnisse aus dem Workshop August Sander , Linz on the Danube, Landhaus-House
1927 Cologne, Kölnischer Kunstverein
1951 Cologne, Photokina (Fotomesse)
1956 New York, Museum off Modern Art („MoMA “), collective exposure with Manual Álvarez Cheer, Walker Evans and Paul Strand
1958 Herdorf, aus Anlass der Ehrenbürgerwürde
1956 New York, Museum off Modern Art
1959 August Sander - Gestalten seiner Zeit , Cologne, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photography (DGPh)

; on a purely posthumous basis

1969 New York, Museum off Modern Art
1973 New York, Sonnabend Gallery
1975 Stadt und Land , Münster, Westfälischer Kunstverein
1976 Chicago, The Art Institute off Chicago
1977 Edinburgh
1977 Menschen ohne Maske, Fotografien 1906-1952 , Zurich, Kunstgewerbemuseum
1978 Linz/Austria, Stadtmuseum
1980 East Berlin, permanent Representation of the Federal Republic of Germany, with Bernd und Hilla Beaker
1981 Leipzig/DDR, Gallery der Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst
1985 Valence/Spain, Salted Parapallo
1993 „Antlitz der Zeit “, Aix-en-Provence/France
1994 Moscow, Museum Pouchkine
1994 Tokyo/Japan, Museum off Contemporary Art
1995 Bonn, Kunstmuseum
1996 August Sander (1876-1964). Photographs first half of the 20th century, Rheinhalle 1 Rheinhallen, Cologne  
1997 August Sander, Karl Blossfeldt, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Bernd and Hilla Becher: Vergleichende Konzeptionen Die Photographische Sammlung, Cologne, Mediapark
1997 August Sander. Photographien 1902-1939, Die Photographische Sammlung, Cologne, Mediapark  
2000 Zeitgenossen . August Sander and the artistic scene in the Rhineland at the 20th century, Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle, Cologne
2001 August Sander: Menschen of the 20. Jahrhunderts , Die Photographische Sammlung, Cologne, Mediapark
2003 Frankfurt (Hand), Städel - Museum
2004 August Sander: Menschen of the 20. Jahrhunderts Das große Portraitwerk und Arbeiten seiner Künstlerfreunde , Martin-Gropius-Beam Berlin
2004 August Sander: Menschen of the 20. Jahrhunderts Das große Portraitwerk , Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Gallery Frankfurt amndt Hand
2004 August Sander: Menschen of the 20. Jahrhunderts Das große Portraitwerk , Metropolitan Museum off Art, New York
2006 August Sander, Linzer Jahre 1901-1909, August Sander, Die Photographische Sammlung, Cologne, Mediapark

External bonds

Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur - Files of August Sander
Some photographs of August Sandler

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