| | | | | | | | August Sander
Jungbauern, 1914
Gelatin silver print
printed 1990 by Gerd Sander
59 x 43.1 cm | 23 ⁷⁄₃₂ x 16 ¹⁵⁄₁₆ inches
Edition of 18
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August Sander. du Magazin 1959 -
The rediscovery of an oeuvre
9 December 2023 - 3 February, 2024
Opening: Friday, 8 December, 6-9 p.m. | |
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Konditor, 1928
Gelatin silver print
printed 1990 by Gerd Sander
58.1 x 40 cm | 22 ²⁷⁄₃₂ x 15 ²³⁄₃₂ inches
Edition of 18
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– August Sander Archiv, Köln: VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn | | | | | | | With the exhibition "August Sander. du Magazin 1959 - The Rediscovery of an Oeuvre", Galerie Julian Sander refers to a special issue of the Swiss monthly magazine du from November 1959, which was dedicated to the work of the then 83-year-old photographer August Sander. Since it was founded in 1941, the magazine saw itself not only as a forum for humanistic educational journalism, but also as a presentation medium for historical and experimental photography. Internationally renowned photographers such as Werner Bischof, René Burri, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bruce Davidson, Robert Frank and Herbert List were among its authors. The special issue on August Sander marked the end of a decade in which the photographer's epochal portrait work had gradually gained new recognition. The publication was preceded by exhibitions of his work at the second photokina in 1951 and the famous "Family of Man" show curated by Edward Steichen, which first opened in New York in 1955. The city of Cologne also acquired Sander's portfolio "Cologne as it was" in 1953. With the publication in the Schweizer du, August Sander's work was also extensively recognized in the media for the first time after the war. | | | | | | | | | August Sander
Revolutionäre [Alois Lindner, Erich Mühsam; Guido Kopp], 1929
Gelatin silver print on Agfa paper
printed 1976 by Gunther Sander
23 x 16.9 cm | 9 ¹⁄₃₂ x 6 ⅝ inches
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– August Sander Archiv, Köln: VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn | | | | | | The then editor-in-chief of the magazine and later co-founder of the Swiss "Foundation for Photography", Manuel Gasser, describes his first encounter with August Sander's 1929 photo book "Antlitz der Zeit" as a "shock". He first became aware of the photographer Sander through the book just one year after the end of the war. In his text, which follows the fifty portraits in the magazine du, Gasser notes: "What kind of man is this Sander? What attitude towards his environment and fellow human beings enables him to see his contemporaries so differently from all those who have set out to criticize their era? For there can be no doubt that here is a contemporary and social critic of immense perspicacity, of rare implacability at work, one who is intent on holding up a mirror to every class and every social status by means of typification.
Gasser's selection of images, made in collaboration with August Sander, with portraits from a total of six decades, represents an attempt to model the specific nature of the portrait work "People of the 20th Century", which for him lies in Sander's ability to "merge the commonality of a class, of a class with the particularity of an individual into an indivisible unity". Other texts in the booklet were penned by Alfred Döblin (it is a reprint of his foreword to "Antlitz der Zeit") and by Golo Mann, who provides a brilliant analysis of the sitters and their era. Imagining the circumstances of those portrayed in sketches that are as concise as they are vivid, he relates them to specific historical events and the rise of fascism in the Weimar Republic. | | | | | | | | | August Sander
Zirkusarbeiter, 1926-1932
Gelatin silver print
printed 1980 by Gunther Sander
27.4 x 19.8 cm | 10 ²⁵⁄₃₂ x 7 ²⁵⁄₃₂ inches
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– August Sander Archiv, Köln: VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn | | | | | | | If the Julian Sander Gallery is able to present all of the fifty motifs depicted in du in the exhibition, the latter also reflects the Sander family's intensive engagement with August's work over four generations. Vintage prints from August Sander's hand are presented here as well as prints by his son Gunther, who, trained as a photographer by his father, was not only an important partner in his photo laboratory business, but also made a significant contribution to the scientific processing and dissemination of his extensive work from the 1950s onwards. This debate was continued by August Sander's grandson Gerd, who was also trained as a photographer, and who dedicated himself entirely to the further development and publication of his grandfather's oeuvre after leaving his full-time job as a photo gallery owner. Gerd Sander's prints of the "People of the 20th Century" taken in the 1990s are also part of the exhibition, allowing the viewer to make a direct comparison between vintage prints and later prints from different decades. | | | | | | | | | August Sander
Der Komponist (Paul Hindemith), c. 1925
Vintage gelatin silver print
23 x 16 cm | 9 ¹⁄₃₂ x 6 ⁹⁄₃₂ inches
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