Landscape: Motiv zum Drachenfels #59
| Artist | August Sander (German, 1876–1964) |
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| Title | Landscape: Motiv zum Drachenfels #59 |
| Plate Number | #59 |
| Series | Flora of the Siebengebirge |
| Date | Ca. 1934 |
| Medium | Gelatin silver print |
| Dimensions | Image: 11 1/2 × 9 1/4 in. (29.2 × 23.5 cm) Sheet: 11 1/2 × 9 1/4 in. (29.2 × 23.5 cm) Mount: 17 1/4 × 13 3/8 in. (43.8 × 34 cm) |
| Credit Line | Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University |
| Accession Number | 81.51.3 |
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A path runs in a slight zig-zag through a forested valley, running from the left/center of the image to the foreground.
Although August Sander’s early work favored a fuzzy pictorialism, he quickly abandoned this style for a more objective approach. He is best known for his portraits of people from all walks of life in the series “Citizens of the Twentieth Century.” The honesty of these pictures set a new standard for photography and frightened the ruling Nazi party. In 1934, Sander’s work was confiscated and his eldest son arrested by the Gestapo.
As a consequence, Sanders turned to less political—and more relaxing—landscape subjects. Despite this change, he continued to incur Nazi pressure and had his studio ransacked a second time. His beautiful landscapes were published in Flora of the Rhine, Rhineland Architecture from the Time of Goethe to our Day, Man and Landscape after the war.
| Plate Number | #59 |
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| Series Title | Flora of the Siebengebirge |
| Foreign Language Series Title | Flora des Siebengebirges |
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