2016.273: Unemployed, Cologne

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2016.273

People

August Sander, German (Herdorf, Germany 1876 - 1964 Cologne, Germany)
Printed by Gunther Sander, German (1907 - 1987)

Title

Unemployed, Cologne

Classification

Photographs

Work Type

photograph

Date

1928, printed 1977

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/357190

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 24 × 16.8 cm (9 7/16 × 6 5/8 in.)
mount: 44.1 × 34.3 cm (17 3/8 × 13 1/2 in.)
frame: 45.7 × 35.6 × 3.2 cm (18 × 14 × 1 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Gunther Sander, Germany, sold; to the Estate of Walter Schünemann, Bremen, Germany, sold; to Collection artbeau4, Hamburg, Germany (2015-2016), sold [through Deborah Bell Photographs, New York]; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2016.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Richard Norton Memorial Fund

Copyright

© August Sander Family Collection / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Accession Year

2016

Object Number

2016.273

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• August Sander and John Von Hartz, August Sander: The Aperture History of Photography Series 7, Aperture Foundation Inc. (New York, 1977), p. 41, ill.

Exhibition History

• 32Q: 1120 Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/23/2023 - 04/08/2024
• August Sander: Prints for the Aperture Monograph, Deborah Bell Photographs, 09/15/2015 - 10/31/2015

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