Road Construction Workers, Westerwald

1917

August Sander

Artist, German, 1876 - 1964

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    New Century Fund

  • Dimensions

    sight size: 16.9 x 23 cm (6 5/8 x 9 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1999.49.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The Estate of August Sander, Cologne; by inheritance to Gunther, then Gerhard Sander, Cologne; Private Collection; (Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, DC); purchased by NGA, 1999.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1971

  • Men Without Masks: Faces of Germany, 1910-1938. Greenwich, Connecticut, 1973: n.p. (variant).

1980

  • August Sander: Photographs of an Epoch, 1904-1959. Millerton [New York], 1980: pl. 51.

Inscriptions

on mat, lower right in graphite: Aug. Sander / Coln 1917; all by later hands, on mat: 3) road worker / #10; center in graphite: A; upper right, on sticker in black ink: SAN- / 11; lower center in graphite: [?]

Markings

BS: Sander

Wikidata ID

Q64145063

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