Lot 46 D

August Sander - Drachenfels und Rheintal (Drachenfels and the Rhine Valley)

Auction 1058 - overview Cologne
27.11.2015, 14:30 - Photography
Estimate: 6.000 € - 8.000 €

August Sander

Drachenfels und Rheintal (Drachenfels and the Rhine Valley)
Before 1935

Vintage or early gelatin silver print on Agfa-Brovira paper. 17.4 x 22.9 cm. Photographer's blind stamp lower left. Photographer's Kuchhausen stamp on the verso.

The vintage or early prints of landscape photographs of the Siebengebirge and of the Rhine near Königswinter (lot 31 - 33), probably photographed by August Sander in the 1930s, are from the estate of Inge Jansen (1933 ­- 2007) who worked as a trainee and assistant of Sander in Kuchhausen between 1953 and 1955.

Provenance

Estate of Inge Jansen

Literature

Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne (ed.), August Sander. Landschaften, exhib.cat. Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Munich et al., ill. p. 20