August Sander

About the Artist

August Sander. Photograph (August Sander) . 1925. Die Photographische Sammlung. © Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur - August Sander Archiv, Köln; VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2014

Meeting Points

Photo Industry Hubs Berlin
Exhibitions Foto der Gegenwart, 1929
Publications Antlitz der Zeit (Sander), 1929

Artist Chronology

November 17, 1876	Born At location: August Sander	Herdorf
1887–89	Works for a local photographer At location: August Sander	Trier
1899–1901	Travels as a photographer journeyman At location: August Sander	Berlin Dresden Leipzig Magdeburg Halle
1901	Works as first operateur for the Photographische Kunstanstalt Greif At location: August Sander	Linz
1902	Takes over the Photographische Kunstanstalt Greif with Franz Stuckenberg and renames it Sander & Stuckenberg At location: August Sander	Linz
1904–09	Renames and runs the company as Photographische Kunstanstalt 1. Ranges, August Sander when Stuckenberg leaves the company At location: August Sander	Linz
1906	Exhibition of 100 prints at the Linzer Landhauspavilion Participant: August Sander	Linz
1910–64	Lives in Cologne and runs his own studio At location: August Sander	Cologne
1914	Exhibition of the Deutscher Werkbund Participant: August Sander, Elisabeth Lindemann	Cologne
1914–18	Drafted into the army At location: August Sander	Germany
1920–27	Develops the concept and writes the text for his project Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts At location: August Sander	Cologne
1920–27	Maintains close contact with the Cologne avant-garde group Die Progressiven At location: August Sander	Cologne
1927	Solo exhibition of work from the People of the 20th Century series at Kölnischer Kunstverein Participant: August Sander	Cologne
1927	Travels to Sardinia for three months to photograph for a book project with Ludwig Mather At location: August Sander	Sardinia
1929	Publishes Antlitz der Zeit. Sechzig Aufnahmen Deutscher Menschen Des 20. Jahrhunderts Contributor: August Sander	Munich
January 20–February 17, 1929	Fotografie der Gegenwart at Museum Folkwang Kestner Gesellschaft v.V, Königstrasse 8, Hannover March 10–April 7, 1929 Galerie Neumann-Nierendorf, Lützowstrasse 32, Berlin April 20–May 20, 1929 Whitechapel Art Gallery, London June 6–29, 1929 Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt July 7–August 8, 1929 Leipziger Kunstverein, Augustusplatz 6, Leipzig August 18–September 8, 1929 Lichthof des Neuen Rathauses, Dresden September 15–October 6, 1929 Kunstverein, Rostock October 20-November 10, 1929 am Adolf-Mittag-See, Städtisches Ausstellungsamt, Magdeburg November 28–December 19, 1929 Landesgewerbeanstalt, Kaiserslautern February 23–March 23, 1930 Vereinigung Göttinger Kunstfreunde, Göttingen May 18–June 8, 1930 Participant: Berenice Abbott, Herbert Bayer, Aenne Biermann, Max Burchartz, Florence Henri, Lotte Jacobi, André Kertész, Germaine Krull, El Lissitzky, Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky), László Moholy-Nagy, Walter A. Peterhans, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Hans Richter, August Sander, Umbo (Otto Umbehr), Lucia Moholy, Karl Blossfeldt, Erich Comeriner, Eli Lotar, Oskar Nerlinger, Robert Petschow, Frieda Gertrud Riess, Sasha Stone, Hans Finsler, Paul Edmund Hahn, Cami Stone	Essen
June–September 1930	Das Lichtbild exhibition Participant: Aenne Biermann, Bill Brandt, Max Burchartz, César Domela-Nieuwenhuis, Florence Henri, Lotte Jacobi, André Kertész, Germaine Krull, Helmar Lerski, Walter A. Peterhans, August Sander, Umbo (Otto Umbehr), Edward Weston, Lucia Moholy, Werner Rohde, Franz Roh, Marianne Breslauer, Alexander Hackenschmied, Edmund Kesting, Jean Moral, Willy Zielke, Lore Feininger, Hans Finsler	Munich
1933–37	Publishes the portfolio Deutsche Lande – Deutsche Menschen Contributor: August Sander	Cologne
1934	The publication Antlitz der Zeit is confiscated by the Nazis and removed from the market At location: August Sander	Cologne
Late 1939–46	At the war's outbreak, begins moving his collection of 40,000 negatives out of Cologne Sander is able to save 10,000 negatives, but the remaining 30,000 are destroyed by a fire. Affiliated: August Sander	Cologne
1951	Exhibits at the first Photokina Cologne Participant: August Sander	Cologne
1952	Edward Steichen visits August Sander to choose prints for the Family of Man exhibition At location: August Sander, Edward Steichen	Windeck
January 24–May 8, 1955	The Family of Man at The Museum of Modern Art Participant: Margaret Bourke-White, Bill Brandt, Lisette Model, August Sander Organizer: Edward Steichen	New York
April 20, 1964	Dies At location: August Sander	Köln