id: 152621 accession number: 1985.43 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.43 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:56.807000 Cellist, c. 1937. August Sander (German, 1876–1964). Gelatin silver print; image: 28.1 x 23 cm (11 1/16 x 9 1/16 in.); matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Edwin R. and Harriet Pelton Perkins Memorial Fund 1985.43 © Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur - August Sander Archiv Köln / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York title: Cellist title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1937 creation date earliest: 1932 creation date latest: 1942 current location: creditline: Edwin R. and Harriet Pelton Perkins Memorial Fund copyright: © Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur - August Sander Archiv Köln / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York --- culture: Germany, 20th century technique: gelatin silver print department: Photography collection: PH - German 20th Century type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * August Sander (German, 1876–1964) - artist August Sander German, 1876-1964 August Sander (born in Herdorf) became known for his Citizens of the Twentieth Century, an ambitious project to create a photographic document of the German people. Fascinated with photography since his youth, Sander pursued this interest during military service in Trier by serving as an assistant in a photography studio. He then spent two years working in various studios in Magdeburg, Halle, Leipzig, and Berlin, also studying painting at the Dresden Academy of Art. By 1904 Sander was operating his own photography studio in Linz, Austria, producing portraits in a painterly style. A proponent of art photography, he took part in international exhibitions, winning two gold medals in 1904. In late 1909 he moved to Cologne-Lindenthal and began photographing rural farmers in Siegerland and Westerwald. To accommodate his new clientele, he expanded his portrait style to include a simpler, more direct approach. In the 1920s Sander became interested in producing clear, sharp images printed on glossy paper, an approach he called "exact photography." During this period he formulated his plan to create a photographic study of German types, focusing on individuals from all levels of society. He began making portraits of students, citizens of small towns, farmers, industrialists, politicians, artists, merchants, soldiers, and workers. In 1929 60 of his portraits were published in the book Face of Our Time (Antlitz der Zeit). Five years later the Nazis seized the remaining copies and destroyed the plates. Sander continued to make portraits for his grand project throughout the rest of his life, but after 1934 increasingly turned to landscape and nature studies, as well as architectural photography. M.M. --- measurements: Image: 28.1 x 23 cm (11 1/16 x 9 1/16 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on recto: "Fr. Michèle Cellist"; on typed label on verso of mount: "August Sander: 'Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts.' " translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'CMA, February 12 - April 20, 1986: "Year in Review 1985," CMA Bulletin, 73 (Feb. 1986), p. 66, no. 110.', 'opening_date': '1986-02-12T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Günther Sander (the artist's son) date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. page number: Reproduced: P. 314 url: --- IMAGES