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August Sander (November 17, 1876 – April 20, 1964) was a German photographer. November 17 is also the name of a Marxist group in Greece. ... 1876 is a leap year starting on Saturday. ... April 20 is the 110th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (111th in leap years). ... 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... This is a list of notable photographers in the art, documentary and fashion traditions. ...

August Sander was the son of a carpenter working in the mining industry. While working at a local mine, Sander first learned about photography by assisting a photographer who was working for the mining company. With financial support from his uncle he acquired photographic equipment and set up his own darkroom. He spent his military service (1897 – 1899) as a photographer's assistant, and the next years wandering across Germany. In 1901 he started working for a photo studio in Graz, eventually becoming a partner (1902) and then its sole proprietor (1904). He left Graz in 1910 and set up a new studio in Cologne. 1897 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1899 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1901 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... The Graz Schlossberg Clock Tower Graz [graːts] (Slovenian: Gradec, pronounced grah-dets), with a population of 300,000 (in 2005) is the second-largest city in Austria and the capital of the federal state of Styria (Steiermark in German). ... 1902 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1904 is a leap year starting on a Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1910 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Cologne skyline at night with river Rhine in the foreground and famous Cologne Cathedral on the right. ...

In the early 1920s Sander joined the "Group of Progressive Artists" in Cologne and began plans to document contemporary society in a portrait series. In 1927 Sander and writer Ludwig Marthar traveled through Sardinia for three months, where he took around 500 photographs. However, a planned book detailing his travels was not completed. 1927 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Sardinia (Sardigna, Sardinna or Sardinnia in the Sardinian language, Sardegna in Italian, Sardenya in Catalan), is the second largest island in the Mediterranean Sea (Sicily is the largest), between Italy, Spain and Tunisia, south of Corsica. ...

Sander's first book Face of our Time was published in 1929. It contains a selection of 60 portraits from his series People of the Twentieth Century. Under the Nazi regime, his work and personal life were greatly constrained. His son Erich, who was a member of the left wing Socialist Workers' Party (SAP), was arrested in 1934 and sentenced to 10 years in prison, where he died in 1944, shortly before the end of his sentence. Sander's book Face of our Time was seized in 1936 and the plates destroyed. During the subsequent decade, Sander's work focused primarily on nature and landscape photography. When World War II broke out he left Cologne and moved to a rural area, allowing him to save most of his negatives. His studio was destroyed in a 1944 bombing raid. 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... 1934 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1936 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Wikipedia will not tolerate irrelevant posts. ... Negative has meaning in several contexts: Look up negative in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Negative and non-negative numbers Negative (photography) In optics, diverging lenses are also called negative lenses. ...

Sander's work includes landscape, nature, architecture, and street photography, but he is most well known for his portraits, as exemplified by his series People of the Twentieth Century. In this series he aims to show a cross-section of society during the Weimar Republic. The series is divided into seven sections: The Farmer, The Skilled Tradesman, The Woman, Classes and Professions, The Artists, The City, and The Last People (homeless persons, veterans, etc.). The period of German history from 1919 to 1933 is known as the Weimar Republic IPA (German Weimarer Republik). ...

External links

• August Sander archive
• Special exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art