© Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur – August Sander Archiv, Cologne / ARS, NY
- Brüder
- Brothers
- from the portfolio Kinder aus dem Westerwald
- from the portfolio The Children of Westerwald
Mount: 17 5/16 × 13 3/8 in. (44 × 33.9 cm)
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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
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]
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