August SanderGerman, 1876–1964
Bricklayer, 1928
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Minneapolis Institute of Art
Minneapolis, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
- Checked
- 19 hours ago
- In this state since
- Sep 25, 2026
- Source
- The museum's own collection data
About the work
He emerges from darkness, his head framed by the bricks he shoulders, his face illuminated by a dramatic and ennobling light. August Sander made the image for his “People of the Twentieth Century” project, which sought to document the full range of contemporary German society through portraits of its people, including artists, farmers, skilled tradesmen, politicians, soldiers, and students. Beginning about 1910, he traveled widely throughout the country and produced more than six hundred photographs of its citizens. Organized by profession and occupation, this monumental compendium is unparalleled in its thoroughness. A selection of the portraits from this series was published as a book, Face of Our Time, in 1929. It was seized by the Nazis in 1936, and the plates were destroyed because many of its subjects did not adhere to the ideal Aryan type.
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Particulars
- Accession number
- 90.133.5
In the catalog
Sources
- Minneapolis Institute of Art: the museum's own open data · fetched 5 days ago
- Image: Minneapolis Institute of Art — © Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur – August Sander Archiv, Cologne / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 2017
Meanwhile, in the life of August Sander
The whole life1960 · Award
Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
1961 · Award
kulturnaya premiya Nemetskogo obshchestva fotografii
20 April 1964
Died
![Bohemians [Willi Bongard and Gottfried Brockmann], August Sander, 1922-25](https://www.moma.org/media/W1siZiIsIjMyNDM3NiJdLFsicCIsImNvbnZlcnQiLCItcmVzaXplIDEwMjR4MTAyNFx1MDAzZSJdXQ.jpg?sha=c7a2422a7f8aefff)
![Proletarian Intellectuals [Else Schuler, Tristan Rémy, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, Gerd Arntz], August Sander, c. 1925](https://www.moma.org/media/W1siZiIsIjMyNDY2MCJdLFsicCIsImNvbnZlcnQiLCItcmVzaXplIDEwMjR4MTAyNFx1MDAzZSJdXQ.jpg?sha=5d8368e86543f58f)
![Painter [Anton Räderscheidt], August Sander, 1926](https://www.moma.org/media/W1siZiIsIjMyOTIyNiJdLFsicCIsImNvbnZlcnQiLCItcmVzaXplIDEwMjR4MTAyNFx1MDAzZSJdXQ.jpg?sha=26d46e5adf945aed)
