August Sander

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August Sander was a German photographer renowned for his systematic, documentary-style portraits that aimed to create a typological survey of German society in the early 20th century.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf documentary photographer
human
photographer
portrait photographer
countryOfCitizenship German Empire NERFINISHED
Germany
dateOfBirth 1876-11-17
dateOfDeath 1964-04-20
employer Self-employed
ethnicGroup German
familyName Sander NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork portraiture
social documentary photography
genre documentary photography
portrait photography
givenName August NERFINISHED
hasPart portfolio Classes and Professions NERFINISHED
portfolio Farmers
portfolio Skilled Tradesmen
portfolio The City NERFINISHED
portfolio The Last People NERFINISHED
portfolio The Woman NERFINISHED
hasPhotographicSeries People of the 20th Century NERFINISHED
influenced Bernd Becher NERFINISHED
Candida Höfer NERFINISHED
Hilla Becher NERFINISHED
Rineke Dijkstra NERFINISHED
Thomas Ruff NERFINISHED
influencedBy New Objectivity NERFINISHED
pictorialism
knownFor documentary-style portraiture
survey of German society in the early 20th century
systematic typological portraits
languageOfWorkOrName German
movement New Objectivity NERFINISHED
name August Sander NERFINISHED
notableFor creating a typological archive of German people by profession and class
notableWork Antlitz der Zeit NERFINISHED
People of the 20th Century NERFINISHED
occupation photographer
placeOfBirth German Empire
Herdorf NERFINISHED
Prussia
surface form: Kingdom of Prussia
placeOfDeath Cologne NERFINISHED
West Germany NERFINISHED
residence Cologne NERFINISHED
sexOrGender male
subjectOf retrospective exhibitions at J. Paul Getty Museum
retrospective exhibitions at Museum of Modern Art
workLocation Cologne NERFINISHED

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New Objectivity notablePhotographer August Sander