![Bassoonist (Fagottist) [Bernhard Hühnerfürst, Member of the Cologne Wind Ensemble]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/83122bfc-1f19-4eff-a13e-5014b50bdbd4/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
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Bassoonist (Fagottist) [Bernhard Hühnerfürst, Member of the Cologne Wind Ensemble]
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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- 1927
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- Gelatin silver print
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- German
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- Photographs
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Consisting of as many as fifty woodwind, brass, and percussion instruments, the Cologne Wind Ensemble performed classical concerts and popular tunes. Sander granted bassoonist Bernhard Hühnerfürst noble stature by isolating him from the ensemble. In contrast to the musician's solid physique, his luminous bassoon takes on a delicate character of its own.
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