August Sander
Rhineland Landscapes
1929-39
Portfolio containing 12 gelatin silver prints on Agfa-Portriga paper, printed 1974 by Gunther Sander. From 21.8 x 28.8 cm to 22.8 x 28.8 cm, both portrait and landscape formats. Each print with photographer's blind stamp lower left and bordered in black ink. Each flush-mounted to original card. Edition stamp, therein signed, numbered consecutively '1' to '12' and editioned in pencil on the reverse of the mount. Copy 58 from an edition of 75. Edition Schirmer Mosel, Munich. - Each matted and framed. With cover sheet, thereon detailed typed information about the edition and the images.
Motifs:
View of Cologne at sunrise, c. 1938
View of the Siebengebirge from the Westerwald, c. 1935
View of the Siebengebirge from Eichelhard, c. 1935
Valley of the Rhine with the Island Nonnenwerth, c. 1936
View of the Ölberg from Hasselbach, c. 1938
Loop of the Rhine near Boppard, c. 1936
View of the Siebengebirge from Rheinbreitenbach, c. 1936
Environs of Heisterbach, c. 1935
Siebengebirge near Oberwinter, c. 1939
View from the Ölberg with the Rhine valley in the background, c. 1939
View of the Siebengebirge between Drachenfels and Löwenburg, c. 1929
Stonequarry in the Siebengebirge, c. 1935
Literature
Wolfgang Kemp, August Sander. Rheinlandschaften. Photographien 1929 - 1946, Munich 1975, with ill.; Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur, Köln (ed.), August Sander. Landschaften, exhib.cat. Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur, Köln, Munich 1999, with ill.