Farm Girls, Westerwald
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Not on view at present
Where is “Farm Girls, Westerwald” now? Collection: Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.
Minneapolis, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
- Checked
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the work
In 1927, August Sander wrote, Let me honestly tell the truth about our age and our people. He photographed thousands of everyday people, young and old, in order to show Germany not as a homogenous nation but as diverse as it really was. Sander made portraits of blacksmiths, boxers, businessmen, cooks, doctors, farmers, gypsies, laborers, lawyers, mothers, poets, priests, tramps, and the unemployed, as discrete individuals and in groups. In his aim to catalogue all types of German people, Sander brought us to these young sisters from his native Westerwald. Sander was interested in the now-discredited theory of physiognomy, the relationship between physical and psychological features. From physical appearance to body language to environment, how might these girls be typecast?
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Details
- Accession number
- 77.68.5
In the catalog
Sources
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Image: Minneapolis Institute of Art — © Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur – August Sander Archiv, Cologne / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 2017
![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)
