August Sander
German Photographer · 1876–1964
105 works on LinkedCulture
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
Works

A bourgeois family celebration of Christmas in 1910 (Weihnachtsfeier einer bürgerlichen Familie im Jahre 1910).
Getty Museum · 1910

Apse, ruins of Heisterbach monastery, Siebengebirge (Apsis, Ruine Kloster Heisterbach, Westerwald)
Getty Museum · about 1933–1939
![[Architect H.W. Reitz, Cologne (Architekt H.W. Reitz, Köln)]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/d2995d9f-91da-4c51-abdd-94615430413b/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Architect H.W. Reitz, Cologne (Architekt H.W. Reitz, Köln)]
Getty Museum · 1929
![Architect's Wife (Frau eines Architeckten) [Ada Riphahn, Cologne]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/93627302-0143-440c-9647-b3b65622dc61/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
Architect's Wife (Frau eines Architeckten) [Ada Riphahn, Cologne]
Getty Museum · 1931
![Architect's Wife (Frau eines Architeckten) [Dora Lüttgen, Cologne]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/19d57de5-1532-4338-b3c2-9eabfb6cd41b/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
Architect's Wife (Frau eines Architeckten) [Dora Lüttgen, Cologne]
Getty Museum · 1926
![[Art Historian (Der Kunstgelehrte)] [Wilhelm Schäfer]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/b18907ad-880b-441c-8b0d-78b68fb6adf9/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Art Historian (Der Kunstgelehrte)] [Wilhelm Schäfer]
Getty Museum · 1928
![[Bank Official (Bankbeamter)]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/cde315f8-d70c-4d59-bef5-73b304f7d37e/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Bank Official (Bankbeamter)]
Getty Museum · 1932
![Bassoonist (Fagottist) [Bernhard Hühnerfürst, Member of the Cologne Wind Ensemble]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/83122bfc-1f19-4eff-a13e-5014b50bdbd4/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
Bassoonist (Fagottist) [Bernhard Hühnerfürst, Member of the Cologne Wind Ensemble]
Getty Museum · 1927
![[Blacksmiths (Schmiede)].](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/80296153-f75a-472d-aa8e-86692c7428e6/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Blacksmiths (Schmiede)].
Getty Museum · 1926

Blind children (Blindenkinder) (84.XM.126.107)
Getty Museum · about 1930
![[Blind Men, Congenitally Afflicted] (84.XM.126.110)](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/51488e09-893a-4a6e-84ee-e86a0c9e2c10/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Blind Men, Congenitally Afflicted] (84.XM.126.110)
Getty Museum · about 1930
![Bohemian [the Painter Gottfried Brockmann, Cologne]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/f301306e-d517-4bf6-b30f-761c7b45108c/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
Bohemian [the Painter Gottfried Brockmann, Cologne]
Getty Museum · 1922
![[Carnival workers, Düren (Kirmesarbeiter, Düren)]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/78148fc0-6b02-4521-810a-4b47e380ce9a/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Carnival workers, Düren (Kirmesarbeiter, Düren)]
Getty Museum · 1932
![[Catholic nun (Katholische Schwester)].](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/21b68697-fdcd-4f94-a58c-fa87aba95a2b/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Catholic nun (Katholische Schwester)].
Getty Museum · 1921

Circus Usherettes with Programs (84.XM.498.14)
Getty Museum · about 1930–1932
![[Cleaning woman (Putzfrau)]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/b47b988a-b4aa-4126-a93c-28e3c946d19a/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Cleaning woman (Putzfrau)]
Getty Museum · 1927
![[Coal Carrier, Berlin (Berliner Kohlenträger)]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/ff022c71-e366-4bcc-9cf0-4e1f7ea77b46/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Coal Carrier, Berlin (Berliner Kohlenträger)]
Getty Museum · 1929

Country Girls
Getty Museum · 1925
![[Courtyard musicians, Cologne]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/df41447d-009b-4171-af7a-d71951e20b19/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Courtyard musicians, Cologne]
Getty Museum · 1928

Dental Student
Getty Museum · 1914
![[Deputy of a splinter party (Abgeordneter einer Splitterpartei)]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/97ea975e-25f1-4fa6-81ac-8dbe0a24f0de/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Deputy of a splinter party (Abgeordneter einer Splitterpartei)]
Getty Museum · 1931
![[Dockworkers (Schauerleute)]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/6a59c750-f5ad-4af5-a8a3-3ace7999bfcf/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Dockworkers (Schauerleute)]
Getty Museum · 1929

Expressway Built during the Third Reich, Neanderthal
Getty Museum · about 1936

Factory Worker's Daughter
Getty Museum · 1932
![[Farm couple (Bauernpaar)]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/db3f0ba1-34b9-43c3-bcb4-d737d5feb60e/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Farm couple (Bauernpaar)]
Getty Museum · 1914

Farmer on His Way to Church (Bauer beim Kirchgang)
Getty Museum · about 1926
![[Farmer, Westerwald (Bauer aus dem Westerwald)]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/dc3c4c9b-af07-4765-b1c2-5a0a3305b5b7/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Farmer, Westerwald (Bauer aus dem Westerwald)]
Getty Museum · 1931
![[Farmer, Westerwald (Bauer, Westerwald)]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/49ce5cf7-9593-47b5-a455-a8e53f84f0ee/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Farmer, Westerwald (Bauer, Westerwald)]
Getty Museum · 1910
![[Farmer, Westerwald (Westerwälder Bauer)] (84.XM.126.115)](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/9aa1b192-19d7-4f4f-b022-17fed41cdf10/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Farmer, Westerwald (Westerwälder Bauer)] (84.XM.126.115)
Getty Museum · about 1925
![[Farmhand, Leuscheid, Westerwald (Bauernknecht aus Leuscheid, Westerwald)]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/5f89e111-8680-4804-bc0e-493a244bedc9/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Farmhand, Leuscheid, Westerwald (Bauernknecht aus Leuscheid, Westerwald)]
Getty Museum · 1951

Grocer, Cologne (Krämer, Köln).
Getty Museum · about 1929
![[Group of circus people (Zirkusleute)]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/82ec98b3-7525-45fb-be7a-3c8f60265a65/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Group of circus people (Zirkusleute)]
Getty Museum · about 1930–1932

Havemann String Quartet
Getty Museum · about 1923

Herbal doctor (Kräuterheilkundiger)
Getty Museum · about 1928

High School Student, Cologne
Getty Museum · 1927
![Inventor [the dadaist Raoul Hausmann] (Erfinder [Der Dadaist Raoul Hausmann])](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/60e6f611-04a9-47dc-a9a9-88ee386f4480/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
Inventor [the dadaist Raoul Hausmann] (Erfinder [Der Dadaist Raoul Hausmann])
Getty Museum · 1929
![[Managing director (Betriebsleiter)]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/f0bbd72e-e573-43d0-9916-6473866741ab/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Managing director (Betriebsleiter)]
Getty Museum · 1933
![[Man with a violin]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/ac34ee93-f397-4275-9e84-2d80bc5895c6/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Man with a violin]
Getty Museum · 1929 or 1931
![[Marseille, hoist (Hebekran, Marseille)]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/ede173be-cafc-4279-b2b8-ae1b093e66d0/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Marseille, hoist (Hebekran, Marseille)]
Getty Museum · about 1925–1930

Master Glazier
Getty Museum · about 1925

[Master Mason (building a Chimney) (Maurermeister (am Kaminbau))
Getty Museum · 1932

Members of a Student Corps
Getty Museum · 1921
![[Members of the Piscator Theater (Mitglieder der Piscator-Bühne)]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/885b111f-89d1-43ff-a5ba-88afa4fec612/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Members of the Piscator Theater (Mitglieder der Piscator-Bühne)]
Getty Museum · 1929

Middle-class Child
Getty Museum · 1927

Middle-Class Couple, Cologne (Dr. A. Herbig, Jr., and His Wife) (84.XM.126.171)
Getty Museum · 1928
![[Middle-class family (Bürgerliche Familie)]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/802fc06f-93db-4c27-b947-5eabd1df73a2/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Middle-class family (Bürgerliche Familie)]
Getty Museum · 1923
![[National Socialists, Cologne Central Train Station]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/a1f516b7-e1a4-4274-a0ff-e46ce500781b/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[National Socialists, Cologne Central Train Station]
Getty Museum · 1937
![Painter (Maler) [Gottfried Brockmann]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/20e979f3-6a45-4d52-837b-fadbc4ede7a3/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
Painter (Maler) [Gottfried Brockmann]
Getty Museum · 1924

Painter's Wife (Helene Abelen)
Getty Museum · 1926
![Parlamentarian of the Democratic Party, (Abgeordneter, Demokrat)]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/1e8b1a60-5b64-4735-a3ed-8bd1e2897830/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
Parlamentarian of the Democratic Party, (Abgeordneter, Demokrat)]
Getty Museum · 1928
![[Peasant family (Bauernfamilie)]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/d8f32a8c-458b-4e6b-ac87-9ebb1483ddc7/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Peasant family (Bauernfamilie)]
Getty Museum · 1912

Peasant Woman, Sauerland
Getty Museum · negative 1913; print about 1930

Peasant Woman, Westerwald
Getty Museum · negative 1913; print about 1930
![[Peasant Woman, Westerwald (Bäuerin aus dem Westerwald)]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/466696f8-9ba6-44cb-b793-f606dfd025ee/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Peasant Woman, Westerwald (Bäuerin aus dem Westerwald)]
Getty Museum · 1912
![[Persecuted Jew, Mr. Leubsdorf (Verfolgter Jude. Herr Leubsdorf)]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/f4129b0c-e383-46e2-abfa-4f801e8feeda/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Persecuted Jew, Mr. Leubsdorf (Verfolgter Jude. Herr Leubsdorf)]
Getty Museum · about 1938

Polish Day Laborer Who Works in Saxony
Getty Museum · 1925–1930

Potter, Frechen (Töpfermeister, Frechen)
Getty Museum · about 1932

President Paul von Hindenburg and Mayor Konrad Adenauer, Cologne
Getty Museum · 1926

Priest and Acolyte, Sardinia
Getty Museum · 1927
![[Protestant priest (Evangelischer Geistlicher)]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/8f1f961e-1f0c-4535-928b-c6f022d15099/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Protestant priest (Evangelischer Geistlicher)]
Getty Museum · 1928

Provincial Couple, Monschau
Getty Museum · 1927
![[Publisher's representative (Verlagsbuchhändler)].](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/37cb390c-0373-4db5-82a7-dcc17baf865d/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Publisher's representative (Verlagsbuchhändler)].
Getty Museum · 1908
![[Quarry Pit]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/68c36fbd-8680-465d-8b9c-4217da8a54b9/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Quarry Pit]
Getty Museum · about 1925–1935
![[Rural wedding portrait]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/7592941d-7761-48df-8d36-0a4621795727/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Rural wedding portrait]
Getty Museum · 1913

Sander's studio/home, Cologne: Festively decorated table for Easter (Sander's Studio/Wohnung, Köln: Festlich geschmückter Oster tisch)
Getty Museum · about 1930–1942

Sander's studio/home, Cologne: Kitchen (corner of hearth) (Sander's Studio/Wohnung, Köln: Küche (Herdecke))
Getty Museum · about 1930–1942

Sander's studio/home, Cologne: Laboratory (Sander's Studio/Wohnung, Köln; Laboratorium)
Getty Museum · about 1930–1942

Sander's studio/home, Cologne: Roof garden (tomato bush) (Sander's Studio/Wohnung, Köln: Dachgarten (Tomatenstrauch))
Getty Museum · about 1930–1942

Sander's studio/home, Cologne: Workroom (Sander's Studio/Wohnung, Köln: Arbeitszimmer)
Getty Museum · about 1930–1942
![Sculptress (Bildhauerin) [Ingeborg von Rath]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/d169974f-e187-48de-8b2c-47ef90b2de84/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
Sculptress (Bildhauerin) [Ingeborg von Rath]
Getty Museum · 1929
![[Secretary (Sekretärin)]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/5022559f-c88a-45b9-8bc4-1a3aa78b6b46/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Secretary (Sekretärin)]
Getty Museum · about 1928–1930
![[Shepherd (Hirte)]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/a0fe81b7-08ea-4a82-a101-55a6c261b9ad/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Shepherd (Hirte)]
Getty Museum · 1913
![Siblings [Publisher Otto Schmidt with His Sisters, Cologne]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/7d4ee621-b277-440f-9f84-3c8208c4b067/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
Siblings [Publisher Otto Schmidt with His Sisters, Cologne]
Getty Museum · 1924
![Society Lady (Dame der Gesellschaft) [Miss Bausch, Cologne]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/c32bbe3f-eab2-4d8d-b64d-ffcafcb5d855/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
Society Lady (Dame der Gesellschaft) [Miss Bausch, Cologne]
Getty Museum · 1930

[SS Storm Trooper Chief (SS Hauptsturmführer).
Getty Museum · 1937

Suspension Railway, Elberfeld
Getty Museum · 1913
![[The architect Professor Dr. P., Berlin (Der Architekt Professor Dr. P., Berlin)]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/9095d1f7-4e4d-4b9d-a674-a733fdce2319/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[The architect Professor Dr. P., Berlin (Der Architekt Professor Dr. P., Berlin)]
Getty Museum · 1928
![[The Cologne lawyer Dr. Bysanz (Der Kölner Rechtsanwalt Dr. Bysanz)]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/3fa1259c-44a5-4c04-a2eb-dae9d7d4ff5e/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[The Cologne lawyer Dr. Bysanz (Der Kölner Rechtsanwalt Dr. Bysanz)]
Getty Museum · 1931
![[The lord of the manor (Der Herrenbauer)]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/4132f3f7-263e-4161-8758-9775dc3edd7b/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[The lord of the manor (Der Herrenbauer)]
Getty Museum · negative about 1925; print later
![[Tramp, Cologne (Landstreicher, Köln)]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/a38999ac-bcbf-4d8e-be4e-884acd9266c0/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Tramp, Cologne (Landstreicher, Köln)]
Getty Museum · 1929
![[Traveling carpenters, Hamburg (Wandernde Zimmerleute, Hamburg)]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/97a26be9-ab12-4c8b-a879-9263c67abbb5/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Traveling carpenters, Hamburg (Wandernde Zimmerleute, Hamburg)]
Getty Museum · 1928
![[Typical Resident of Blauer Stein in Leuscheid, Rhein (Shoemaker) (Type vom Blauer Stein aus der Leuscheid, Rhineland (Schuhmacher)]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/3d6fa3ad-c54e-4c72-ab3b-0daf0355b987/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Typical Resident of Blauer Stein in Leuscheid, Rhein (Shoemaker) (Type vom Blauer Stein aus der Leuscheid, Rhineland (Schuhmacher)]
Getty Museum · 1931
![[Unemployed, Cologne (Arbeitslos)]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/dbe54e3e-f9bc-4dc6-8bd7-96c01c0c6630/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Unemployed, Cologne (Arbeitslos)]
Getty Museum · 1928
![[Unemployed man (Erwerbsloser)]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/c4259520-4c30-468d-9210-c4772456b0ec/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Unemployed man (Erwerbsloser)]
Getty Museum · 1930
![[Untitled]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/ca16cb1c-8bc7-43e3-93f8-fc48694f797a/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Untitled]
Getty Museum · about 1930–1940
![[Untitled / Child, Westerwald]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/48322bec-ef21-4115-8099-08d2c9afb76d/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Untitled / Child, Westerwald]
Getty Museum · about 1926–1927
![[Untitled] / [Cinema staff]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/c46d892d-87bb-4f87-b425-c1d52e751735/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Untitled] / [Cinema staff]
Getty Museum · 1929
![[Untitled] / [Dog, Westerwald]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/1a05cb2e-ba35-433a-b3b3-207cc8e38a25/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Untitled] / [Dog, Westerwald]
Getty Museum · about 1925–1930
![[Untitled] / [Man]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/92d8fe19-6d5c-4495-ae59-4eac735d1d83/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Untitled] / [Man]
Getty Museum · about 1930–1935
![[Untitled] / [Müller family ?, Hemmelzen ?, Westerwald]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/0e6cdf87-2662-4e9d-816a-9d70ecdca2b7/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Untitled] / [Müller family ?, Hemmelzen ?, Westerwald]
Getty Museum · 1942
![[Untitled] / [National Socialists at the Cologne train station]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/0788c83b-8da2-4c12-ad5a-6296e79d9a33/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Untitled] / [National Socialists at the Cologne train station]
Getty Museum · 1937
![[Untitled] / [Sigrid Sander]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/1edac446-e9b1-4a1d-96cd-aca55f91d84d/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Untitled] / [Sigrid Sander]
Getty Museum · negative about 1928; print about 1953

Victim of Persecution
Getty Museum · about 1938
![Victim of Persecution [Dr. Philips]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/eb762e98-e21b-43af-93f7-d2ead79f84f2/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
Victim of Persecution [Dr. Philips]
Getty Museum · about 1938
![Victim of Persecution (Verfolgter Jude) [Dr. Kahn]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/c731a068-2ab7-4cf8-ae01-f9cf8ef64c2c/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
Victim of Persecution (Verfolgter Jude) [Dr. Kahn]
Getty Museum · about 1938
![Victim of Persecution (Verfolgter Jude) [Mrs. Michel]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/c5d55cba-f609-469f-a2cd-aaa17e593c15/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
Victim of Persecution (Verfolgter Jude) [Mrs. Michel]
Getty Museum · about 1938
![[View of the Rhine from the Siebengebirge (Blick vom Siebengebirge auf den Rhein)]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/0e3d281d-7f74-4543-978f-c73e1e85ade7/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[View of the Rhine from the Siebengebirge (Blick vom Siebengebirge auf den Rhein)]
Getty Museum · about 1934

Village Schoolmaster
Getty Museum · 1913
![[Wholesaler and wife (Grosskaufmann mit Gattin)].](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/17846b8f-d60c-4425-9000-a59afa001d24/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Wholesaler and wife (Grosskaufmann mit Gattin)].
Getty Museum · negative 1923; print 1950s
![[Widower, Cologne (Witwer, Köln)]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/c4c67bd1-ebb0-4dad-8b1b-bae4aa4bb662/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Widower, Cologne (Witwer, Köln)]
Getty Museum · 1914

Young Bourgeois Mother
Getty Museum · 1926

Young Businessman (84.XM.126.172)
Getty Museum · 1927

Young Farmer
Getty Museum · 1911–1914
![[Young Farmers (Jungbauern)].](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/fee556dd-a9a9-41b6-a862-98824e583e37/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Young Farmers (Jungbauern)].
Getty Museum · summer 1914

Young Girl in a Circus Wagon, Düren (84.XM.126.223)
Getty Museum · 1929