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A portrait photograph of a bald white man standing in a kitchen mixing the contents of a metal bowl.

A black and white photograph shows a bald, heavyset white man with a mustache looking directly and unsmilingly at the camera. He wears a white smock and dark pants. He stands in a darkened kitchen mixing the contents of a shiny metal bowl.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2016.278
People
August Sander, German (Herdorf, Germany 1876 - 1964 Cologne, Germany)
Printed by Gunther Sander, German (1907 - 1987)
Title
Pastry Chef, Cologne
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1928, printed 1976
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/357195

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 26.7 × 17.5 cm (10 1/2 × 6 7/8 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
2016.278
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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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. 51, 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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