August Sander - Dom und Ständehaus - image-1

Lot 31 D

August Sander - Dom und Ständehaus

Auction 1109 - overview Cologne
01.06.2018, 14:00 - Photography
Estimate: 2.000 € - 3.000 €
Result: 2.232 € (incl. premium)

August Sander

Dom und Ständehaus
c. 1935

Gelatin silver print on Agfa-Brovira paper, printed before 1953. 29.8 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. - Small crease at the lower left edge..

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.

Provenance

From the photographer to Robert Görlinger, Cologne; private property, Germany

Literature

Kölnisches Stadtmuseum et al. (ed.), August Sander. Köln wie es war, Cologne 1995, ill. p. 52 (variant); August Sander. Köln wie es war, exhib.cat. Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, Cologne 2009, ill. p. 32 (variant)