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Havemann String Quartet
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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- about 1923
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
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- German
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- Photographs
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- Getty Museum
Founded in the early 1920s by Gustav Havemann (German, 1882-1960), the Havemann String Quartet performed both classical and modern music, some of it considered avant-garde. When the Third Reich imposed a ban on what they considered "degenerate" music, Havemann (at far right) was expelled from the national musicians' club because he had intervened on behalf of composer Paul Hindemith.
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