August Sander
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August Sander was a German portrait and documentary photographer. His first book Face of our Time was published in 1929. Sander has been described as "the most important German portrait photographer o
Self-portrait, 1925
German Deciduous Forest, Krefeld (1939), The Phillips Collection
Memorial plaque at his residence in Cologne
Sander's grave, Melaten Cemetery, Cologne
Cologne Progressives
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The Cologne Progressives was an art movement and were an informal group of artists based in the Cologne and Düsseldorf area of Germany. They came together following the First World War and participate
August Sander
…Classes and Professions, The Artists, The City, and The Last People (homeless persons, veterans, etc.). In the early 1920s, he came in contact with the Cologne Progressives, a radical group of artists linked to the workers' movement, which, as Wieland Schmied put it, "sought to combine constructivism and objectivity…
Heinrich Hoerle, Monument to the Unknown Protheses (1930)