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Architect's Wife (Frau eines Architeckten) [Dora Lüttgen, Cologne]
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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- 1926
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- German
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 7c2b71a5-0055-4050-841f-9b083e733c14
In contrast to the mature Ada Riphahn, Dora Lüttgen, the wife of Cologne-based architect Hanz Heinz Lüttgen, appears tentative as she sits in profile on the edge of a table. Sander's composition carefully juxtaposes her plaid dress with the angular wall pattern to enliven her reserved expression.
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