About This Artwork

August Sander
German, 1876–1964

Bauernpaar - Zucht und Harmonie, 1912

Gelatin silver print
29.6 x 23.4 cm
Hugh Edwards Photography Purchase Fund, 1972.12

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

AIC, "Sight-Set-Sequence: Photographs from the Permanent Collection," November 10-May 19, 2002. (Travis)

AIC, "Of National Interest: Photographs from the Collection," September 13, 2008–January 11, 2009. (Katherine A. Bussard and Gregory Harris)

AIC, "Photography on Display: Modern Treasures," May 9–September 13, 2009.

Publication History

Doblin, Alfred "Von Gesichtern Bildern und Ihrer Wahrheit." Copyright by Transmare Verlag AG., Munich. Einband von Emil Preetorius. Printed in Germany, 1929. p. 4.

August Sander "In der Photographie gibt es keine ungeklarten Schatten!" Catalogue from an exhibition with the same name held at the Kunstmuseum Bonn, 1994 - 1995.

Heiting, Manfred. 2000. "August Sander." Benedikt Taschen Verlag GmbH Hohenzollernring 53. p. 11. (other print of this image)

Sander, August. 1971. "August Sander: Men Without Masks: Faces of Germany 1910-1938." New York Graphic Society Ltd. Greenwich, Connecticut/Verlag C.J. Bucher, Lucerne and Frankfurt/M.n.p. (other print of this image)

Sander, Gunther. 1986. "August Sander: Citizens of the Twentieth Century: Portrait Photographs 1892-1952." The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. p. 10. (other print of this image)

August Sander "Menschen des 20.Jahrhunderts: Portraitphotographien 1892 - 1952." Shirmer/Mosel, Munich, 1980. pl. 10.

August Sander. "Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts: I Der Bauer." Herausgegeben von Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur. München: Shirmer/Mosel. 2002. pg. 59. (Other print of this image)

Maria Makela, “‘A Clear and Simple Style’: Tradition and Typology in New Objectivity,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 28, 1 (2002), pp. 38-51, fig. 9.




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