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Lot 608 D

August Sander - Master Housepainter

Auction 1232 - overview Cologne
01.12.2023, 14:00 - Photography
Estimate: 4.000 € - 5.000 €

August Sander

Master Housepainter
1920

Vintage gelatin silver print. 14.9 x 10 cm. Laminated on studio cardboard, signed and dated in pencil below the image on the mount lower right.

The photograph shows the decoration and stage painter Johann Schmitt (1878-1955), who was active in Hamm/Westphalia in the twenties. August Sander included the studio portrait, which for him shows the sitter as a prototypical representative of his profession in Group II "The Skilled Tradesman" (subsection 'The Master Craftsman') of his opus 'People of the 20th Century'.

Provenance

From the portrayed to the present owner

Literature

Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur, Köln (ed.), August Sander. Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vol. 2: The Skilled Tradesman, Munich i.a. 2002, ill. p. 35