AUGUST SANDER (1876–1964)
Aviator (Sportflieger), Cologne 1920

Start price: €1.600

Estimate: € 3.000-3.400

Gelatin silver print, printed in 1990 by Gerd Sander, double-weight semi-matte paper, excellent condition, mounted on the original thin cardboard

25,8 x 18,9 cm

“Aug. Sander Köln Lindenthal” blind stamp in the lower left, signed and dated by Gerd Sander in pencil on the reverse, stamped “August Sander Archive [..]” with handwritten number on the reverse, “August Sander Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts” label on the reverse of the mount, edition no. 1/12

LITERATURE August Sander, Antlitz der Zeit, Munich 1929; Gunther Sander (ed.), August Sander. Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts, Munich 1980; Susanne Lange, Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, Gerd Sander (eds.), August Sander. Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts. vol I, Munich 2002, p. 269; August Sander, Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Ein Kulturwerk in Lichtbildern, ed. by Die Photographische Sammlung, SK Stiftung Kultur, Munich 2010, p. 187 (I/7).