id: 307522 accession number: 2017.306 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2017.306 updated: 2024-03-26 02:01:57.506000 The Painter Heinrich Hoerle, Painting the Boxing Champion Hein Domgörgen, 1929. August Sander (German, 1876–1964). Gelatin silver print (printed 1974); image: 28.5 x 20.7 cm (11 1/4 x 8 1/8 in.); paper: 28.5 x 20.7 cm (11 1/4 x 8 1/8 in.); mounted: 54.7 x 44.7 cm (21 9/16 x 17 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Holly and James Bogin 2017.306 title: The Painter Heinrich Hoerle, Painting the Boxing Champion Hein Domgörgen title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1929 creation date earliest: 1929 creation date latest: 1929 current location: creditline: Gift of Holly and James Bogin copyright: --- culture: technique: gelatin silver print (printed 1974) 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: 28.5 x 20.7 cm (11 1/4 x 8 1/8 in.); Paper: 28.5 x 20.7 cm (11 1/4 x 8 1/8 in.); Mounted: 54.7 x 44.7 cm (21 9/16 x 17 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Embossed in lower left corner on recto: “AUG.SANDER/KOLN/LINDENTHAL” translation: remark: inscription: Stamped in purple ink on verso of mount: “August Sander/KUNSTLERPORTRAITS 10 (written in pencil)/39 (written in pencil)/75 August Sander (signed in pencil)/© Schirmer, Mosel München 1974” translation: remark: inscription: Written in pencil on verso of mount: “HEINRICH HOERLE Painting HEIN DOMGORGEN” translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Sander, August, Susanne Lange, Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, and Gerd Sander. Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts: ein Kulturwerk in Lichtbildern eingeteilt in sieben Gruppen = People of the 20th century : a cultural work of photographs divided into seven groups = Hommes du XXe siècle : une œuvre culturelle de photograhies divisée en sept groupes. New York: Distributed by H.N. Abrams, 2002. page number: url: --- IMAGES