August Sander
Brüder

Brüder

© Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur – August Sander Archiv, Cologne / ARS, NY

Brüder
Brüder
ArtistGerman, 1876–1964
PrinterGerman, born 1940
CultureGerman
Titles
  • Brüder
  • Brothers
  • from the portfolio Kinder aus dem Westerwald
  • from the portfolio The Children of Westerwald
Date1910–1930, printed 1993
Place depictedGermany
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 10 3/16 × 7 3/8 in. (25.8 × 18.8 cm)
Mount: 17 5/16 × 13 3/8 in. (44 × 33.9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.2088
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description


Beginning in the early 1920s, August Sander labored at an epic project titled People of the Twentieth Century—a collective portrait of German citizenry covering all classes and professions, from aristocrats to beggars, artists to military men, farmers to lawyers, and bakers to bankers. Although Sander’s portrait style may have seemed artless at the time, and might still seem straightforward at first glance, his pictures were carefully considered, both unflinchingly true to life and sympathetic. The formal simplicity of such pictures and Sander’s typological approach to his project were highly influential on subsequent generations of photographers.



ProvenanceAugust Sander Archiv, Cologne; purchased by Manfred Heiting, May 11, 1991; purchased by MFAH, 2002.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Lower Brown Corridor, "August Sander: People of the 20th Century from the Manfred Heiting Collection", May 24-August 23, 2004
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Circular embossed stamp, recto, lower left corner of image: Aug. Sander Köln Lindenthal
Printed in black with added inscriptions on applied label, verso: AUGUST SANDER // 12 Kinderbilder aus dem Westerwald, 1910-1930 // zusammengestellt von Gerd Sander // Auflage 12 Exemplare // © 1993 August Sander Archiv/Stiftung City-Treff, Köln // ASA#2704; Exemplar #1/12 // 9 [circled] // G.Sander 93 [signed] 93 // AUGUST SANDER © ARCHIV [stamped]
Signed in pencil on applied label, verso: G.Sander 93

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