August Sander (1876-1964)

Vintage silver print, mounted on original card along the upper edge. The photographer's blindstamp at lower left. Signed and dated in pencil on the mount. The reverse with the photographer's copyright stamp.

From the late 1920s until the mid-40s, August Sander regularly left Cologne to photograph landscape: his pictures of the Rhine valley and the Siegengebirge area reflect his objective, distant, wholly unromantic style. Yet he described nature as 'a veritable paradise, offering the stressed city-dweller hours of relaxation and self recollection away from all the noise and bustle.' (August Sander, In photography there are no unexplained shadows!, exh. cat., Cologne, 1994, p. 195.)