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Lot 30 D

August Sander - Zeughausstraße

Auction 1109 - overview Cologne
01.06.2018, 14:00 - Photography
Estimate: 2.000 € - 3.000 €
Result: 1.860 € (incl. premium)

August Sander

Zeughausstraße
c. 1935

Gelatin silver print printed before 1953. 28.5 x 22.5 cm. Photographer's blindstamp lower right. Bordered in black ink. Mounted to original card, titled in an unknown hand in pencil on the mount lower left. Typewritten title 'August Sander: Köln wie es war' on a label, affixed to the reverse of the mount.

This print was part of a portfolio which was a gift by August Sander to the mayor of Cologne Robert Görlinger in 1953 on occasion of his 65th anniversary.

Literature

Kölnisches Stadtmuseum et al. (ed.), August Sander. Köln wie es war, Cologne 1995, ill. p. 257 (variant); August Sander. Köln wie es war, exhib.cat. Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, Cologne 2009, ill. pp. 7 and 224 (both variants)