Label Text
This work is from August Sander's open-ended and ultimately incomplete photography project titled People of the Twentieth Century. His goal was to photograph a cross-section of German society and he divided the series into seven sections: The Farmer, The Skilled Tradesman, Woman, Classes and Professions, The Artists, The City, and The Last People (including the homeless and other disen-franchised people). This painting from the series "Woman," is the image of a secretary--who worked in a radio station--with her bobbed hair and a slouched, androgynous pose, is an example of the way urban, emancipated women dressed and presented themselves in 1920s Germany. Among the first works by the artist to enter the collections.
NEWS, Oct|Nov|Dec 2019.
DimensionsBoard: 17 3/8 × 13 3/8 in. (44.1 × 34 cm)
Sheet: 10 1/4 × 5 7/8 in. (26 × 14.9 cm)
Sheet: 10 1/4 × 5 7/8 in. (26 × 14.9 cm)
Accession Number 2019.20
Classificationsphotograph
SignedG Sander 92 (verso l,c graphite)
Inscriptions8/12/92/3/17/7/2 (l,l verso, graphite); NB III/17/19 (l,l verso, graphite); CR 19/ (l,l verso, graphite); © AUGUST SANDER ARCHIVE, ASA#3/17/7012 (numbers written in black ink), Edition 1992 (number 2 written in black ink), Ed.# 8/12 (8 written in black ink) (l,c verso, stamp in black ink); AUGUST SANDER MENSCHEN DES ZWANZIGSTEN JAHRHUNDERTS (August Sander Archive paper label on mount verso); August Sander, Menschen Des 20.Jahrhunderts, ASA 3/17/7012 (numbers written in black ink), Edition 1992 (2 written in black ink), No.: 8/12 (numbers written in black ink), NB [11/17/19(numbers and bracket written in black ink), CTC 191 (numbers written in black ink), © SK-Stiftung Kultur - August Sander Archiv-VG-Bildkunst, Bonn (mount verso, stamp in black ink); LVM 27875 (l,c mount verso, graphite)
Catalogue raisonnéAperture p. 59; CTC 191; NB III/17/19
Edition8/12
MarksAUG. SANDER KÖLN LINDENTHAL (l,l stamp)
Collections
Dmitri Baltermants
2003
