August Sander - Winter um St. Martin - image-1

Lot 22 D

August Sander - Winter um St. Martin

Auction 1120 - overview Cologne
30.11.2018, 14:00 - Photography
Estimate: 2.000 € - 3.000 €
Result: 1.860 € (incl. premium)

August Sander

Winter um St. Martin
c. 1938

Gelatin silver print on Agfa-Brovira paper, printed before 1953. 29.5 x 23 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. - In the lower image and along the left edge professionally retouched..

This and the following print (lot 23) were 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

August Sander. Köln wie es war, exhib.cat. Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, Cologne 2009, ill. p. 347 (variant)