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Inventor [the dadaist Raoul Hausmann] (Erfinder [Der Dadaist Raoul Hausmann])
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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
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- Gelatin silver print
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- German
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- Photographs
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- Getty Museum
Sander placed this portrait of Raoul Hausmann (German, 1886-1971) in his portfolio of technicians and inventors to conclude the section on skilled tradesmen in *People of the Twentieth Century*. Hausmann was the cofounder of Dada in Berlin, an art movement based on deliberate irrationality and the rejection of tradition. Sander might also have chosen to place Hausmann in the section on artists, but the categories he created--architect, sculptor, painter--did not accommodate the inventiveness of Hausmann's work: photo collage, sound poems, and other forms of expression that embraced new technologies.
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