Lot 38 D

Sanders Lumpenball photos illustrate the vibrant art scene of the 1920s in Cologne. The photographs show, among others, the then 27-year-old photographer Hannes Maria Flach (in the first row sitting) together with his girlfriend Luise Charlotte "Lotte" Fahrig (to the left) at one of the Cologne Carnival Balls in 1928. Flach moved in the circle of the Cologne progressives, to whom Sander was also closely connected. The promisingly begun career of the young photographer, whose works showed early signs of "Neues Sehen" (New Vision), was brought to an abrupt end by his murder in 1936.