Lot 272
272
Property from the Collection of DUANE MICHALS
AUGUST SANDER (1876-1963)

Working Class Family (c. 1905)

Details
AUGUST SANDER (1876-1963)
Working Class Family (c. 1905)
Gelatin silver print. 1920s. Köln-Lindenthal embossed credit stamp on the recto; credit, copyright reproduction limitation stamps and notations in German in ink and in pencil on the verso.
6¾ x 9¼in. (17.2 x 23.5cm.)
Provenance
Ex-Collection, Prof. Fritz Gruber.
Literature
See: Sander, August Sander: Citizens of the Twentieth Century, pl. 174.

Lot Essay

L. Fritz Gruber, a schoolmate and friend of Gunther Sander, was the founding director of the annual photographica show, Photokina. In the first installation of Photokina in 1951, Prof. Gruber invited August Sander to participate in the first international photography exhibition of the post-World War II. His collection is now housed in the Museum Ludwig, Cologne.