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[Master Mason (building a Chimney) (Maurermeister (am Kaminbau))
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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- 1932
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- German
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Sander's images of skilled tradesmen often explore the subjects' connection to their working environments. Framed by the chimney he is building, this mason embodies the craftsman of the preindustrial era. He holds his tools effortlessly, as though they are extensions of his hands.
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