August Sander
Plates contributed
The 3 plates attributed to August Sander in the 1955 MoMA Master Checklist (Exhibition #569).
| ID | Country | Section | Year | View |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| photo-0146 | Germany | Work | — | Clervaux |
| photo-0402 | Germany | Play, learning, and education | — | Clervaux |
| photo-0447 | Germany | Rededication, peace, and the future | — | Clervaux |
Notes
Three plates in the catalog (count verified by strict-match grep against data/photographs.csv 2026-05-09): photo-0146 (Section 15 Work A, Germany, 28 x 21 3/4 cm), photo-0402 (Section 35 Teens, Germany, 28 x 19 1/2 cm), photo-0447 (Section 41 Couples, Germany, 18 x 12 1/2 cm). All three credited ‘German’ in the MoMA Master Checklist; all three set in Germany. Born 1876; died 1964 per src-icp-august-sander-archive (in repo, fetched 2026-05-09: ‘1876 - 1964’ / ‘German’) and src-sfmoma-august-sander (in repo, fetched 2026-05-09: ‘1876, Herdorf, Germany’ / ‘1964, Cologne, Germany’ / ‘German’). The November 17, 1876 / April 20, 1964 day-month tokens are independently corroborated at Tier 3 by src-britannica-august-sander (in repo, fetched 2026-05-09: ‘born November 17, 1876, Herdorf, near Cologne … died April 20, 1964, Cologne’) and src-wikipedia-august-sander-pointer (in repo, fetched 2026-05-09: ‘17 November 1876 – 20 April 1964’). Two-source agreement promotes the day-month tokens above pointer-only status. Cologne-studio period from 1910 verbatim per src-icp-august-sander-archive ((Cologne-studio period from 1910, with the ‘Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts’ / Citizens of the Twentieth Century project anchored to local peasant photographs)). The ‘son who died in prison in 1944’ detail is verbatim per src-icp-august-sander-archive (which records only ‘his son … was a member of the Communist party’). The son’s name ‘Erich Sander’ and the German-acronym form ‘KPD’ (Communist Party of Germany) are widely cited in secondary literature but do NOT appear in any of the four biographical sources fetched in this round; carried as scholarly-convention only, not as a verbatim source-attributed claim. None of the four biographical sources fetched in this round mentions FoM by name on Sander’s page (verified by string-search 2026-05-09); the connection is anchored at the plate level via src-moma-exh-0569-master-checklist. Three Sander plates is the largest dedicated commitment to typological-portraiture lineage in FoM and the only Weimar-era pre-1933 portrait corpus represented at this scale.
External biography
https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/august-sander
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