Girl with Lute

1927

August Sander
German, 1876–1964

Artist: August Sander
Title: Girl with Lute
Origin: Germany
Date: 1927
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Inscriptions: Blind stamped recto, lower left: "Aug. Sander / Köln / Lindenthal"; inscribed recto, on mount, lower right, below image, in graphite: "Aug. Sander [underlined] / Dec [?] 1927"; printed on label verso, on mount, upper left, black background white print: "AUG SANDER / Lightbildner / Cöln-Lindenthal / Dürenerstr.201"; inscribed verso, on mount, upper right, in graphite: "750-"; verso, on mount, lower left, in graphite: "77"; verso, on mount, lower center, in graphite: "12" [encircled]
Dimensions: 23 × 15.2 c (image/paper); 42.7 × 33.9 cm (mount)
Credit Line: Restricted gift of Phyllis French in memory of Doris A. Weiss
Reference Number: 1976.193
Copyright: © 2018 Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur – August Sander Archiv Köln / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Art Institute of Chicago, “Photographs by August Sander,” December 13, 1975–February 8, 1976.
Chicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago, “A History of Photography from Chicago Collection,” April 24–June 6, 1982.
Evanston, Illinois, Northwestern University, Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, “German Photographs from the 20’s and 30’s,” June 19–August 9, 1987.
Art Institute of Chicago, “The Subject is Music: Photographs from the Permanent Collection,” September 28-December 1, 1996. (Sylvia Wolf)
Art Institute of Chicago, “Of National Interest: Photographs from the Collection,” September 13, 2008–January 11, 2009. (Katherine A. Bussard and Gregory Harris)
Art Institute of Chicago, “Max Kozloff: Critic and Photographer,” October 5, 2013–January 5, 2014. (Michal Raz-Russo)
Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 189 Permanent Collection Rotation, September 18, 2014-January 4, 2015.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Dress Codes: Portrait Photograps from the Collection,” November 18, 2017–April 22, 2018.

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