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  1. August Sander (17 November 1876 – 20 April 1964) was a German portrait and documentary photographer. His first book Face of our Time (German: Antlitz der Zeit) was published in 1929. Sander has been described as "the most important German portrait photographer of the early twentieth century".

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    8 de ene. de 2024 · August Sander was a German photographer whose work documented the society he lived in. View August Sanders 1,527 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.

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    August Sander is acclaimed for a life-long undertaking known as People of the Twentieth Century. Though it was realized as one single volume only posthumously (through the efforts of his son) his career-defining mission gave rise to the greatest portrait collection of the 20th century. Sander's goal was to produce a comprehensive photo-sociological...

    Ranked as one of the greatest socio-historical documentarians, Sander's oeuvre is typically defined by its homogeneity and the sheer scale of its ambition. Rejecting all forms of expressionism and...
    Sander opposed the traditional (some would say 'bourgeois') style of studio portraiture that tried to imitate painting. He favored the glossy paper format used in technical photographs because it o...
    Sander saw himself very much as a patriot: an agent of, and for, the German people. Very nearly his whole career was devoted to documenting 20th century Germany through photographic portraits of th...

    Childhood

    One of several siblings, August Sander was born on the 17thNovember 1876, in the German village of Herdorf, to Justine and August Sander. Before the family set up their own modest farm, August Sr. earned his living as a carpenter working in the mining industry. August Jr. seemed destined to follow in his father's footsteps when, as expected, he took up an apprenticeship at the San Fernando Iron Ore mine in 1889. However, while working at the mine, he was tasked with assisting a technical phot...

    Education and Training

    Between 1897 and 1899 Sander undertook his national service at the Wilhelmine Military in Trier where he was able to hone his technical skills while acting, once more, as a photographer's assistant. On completion of his service, Sander moved between a number of studios - from Berlin to Halle; Leipzig to Dresden - before settling at the Greif Photographic Studio in Linz, Austria in 1901. Though he would soon commit his lens to the goal of "honesty and truth", he first became practiced in the t...

    Mature Period

    In the early 1920s Sander joined the Cologne Progressive Artists Group (Gruppe Progressiver Künstler Köln) where he made the acquaintance of many artists including Franz W. Seiwert, Peter Abelen and Jankel Adler. This group, an active supporter of workers' and labor movements, were proponents of the so-called New Objectivity(Neue Sachlichkeit). New Objectivity dismissed expressionism and romantic notions of idealism in favor of a style of Social Realism. It was out of his association with the...

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    • November 17, 1876
    • Herdorf, Germany
    • April 20, 1964
  3. 6 de feb. de 2020 · August Sander (1876-1964) está considerado como uno de los fotógrafos esenciales del siglo XX. Todos los grandes pensadores que dedicaron libros a la fotografía, desde Walter Benjamin hasta Susan Sontag, pasando por John Berger, lo consideran como uno de los pilares de este noble arte.

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  4. August Sander ( Herdorf, Imperio Alemán, 17 de noviembre de 1876 - Colonia, República Federal de Alemania, 20 de abril de 1964) fue un fotógrafo alemán, conocido principalmente por su amplio proyecto documental Hombres del siglo XX (Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts ). Biografía.

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  5. August Sander (17 November 1876 – 20 April 1964) was a German portrait and documentary photographer. [1] [2] His first book Face of our Time (German: Antlitz der Zeit) was published in 1929. Sander has been described as "the most important German portrait photographer of the early twentieth century". [3]

  6. Artist: August Sander (German, 1876–1964) Date: ca. 1934. Medium: Gelatin silver print. Dimensions: 28.1 x 22.1 cm (11 1/16 x 8 11/16 in.) Classification: Photographs. Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Pirie MacDonald and Mr. and Mrs. Everett Tutchings, by exchange, 1981. Accession Number: 1981.1141.15.