[View of the Rhine from the Siebengebirge (Blick vom Siebengebirge auf den Rhein)]

Creator

German Photographer · 1876–1964

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