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[Architect H.W. Reitz, Cologne (Architekt H.W. Reitz, Köln)]
Creator
August SanderGerman Photographer · 1876–1964
All works by this person →During military service, August Sander was an assistant in a photographic studio in Trier; he then spent the following two years working in various studios elsewhere. By 1904 he had opened his own studio in Linz, Austria, where he met with success. He moved to a suburb of Cologne in 1909 and soon began to photograph the rural farmers nearby. Around three years later Sander abandoned his urban stud
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- 1929
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- German
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 0d69ee10-d97a-4063-acd3-0acfbe866a85
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A man in a suit sits with his hands clasped on a stool.
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Educated in Cologne and Hannover, Hans Walter Reitz (German, 1888-1955) was a practitioner of the "new architecture" who worked primarily on residential projects. In this portrait, the careful construction of Reitz's fingertips alludes to the exactitude required of his profession.
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