August Sander

Antlitz der Zeit

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200,000 - 300,000 EUR

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Elixir of Life: Photographs from The Olbricht Collection

August Sander

1876 - 1964

Antlitz der Zeit

(Berlin: Gerd Sander, 1989, an edition of 36) the complete portfolio of 60 gelatin silver prints, each with the photographer's 'Köln-Lindenthal' blindstamp, mounted, the printed portfolio information, signed by Gerd Sander, the photographer's grandson, in pencil and with sequential plate numbers and edition '7/30' in ink on the reverse, overmatted with printed titles and dates, framed, Kicken Berlin labels on the reverse

images approximately: 9½ by 7 in. (24 by 18 cm.) or the reverse

frames: 18⅞ by 14¾ in. (48 by 37.5 cm.)

Executed in 1910-29, printed posthumously in 1989 by Gerd Sander, this portfolio is number 7 from an edition of 30 plus 6 hors commerce copies.

Collection of Gerd Sander

Kicken Berlin

Acquired from the above in 2005 by the present owner

Leverkusen, Museum Morsbroich, YES, YES, YES, YES, October 2005 - January 2006

Berlin, me Collectors Room Berlin, The Moment Is Eternity: Works from the Olbricht Collection, September 2018 - January 2019

August Sander, Antlitz der Zeit: Sechzig Aufnahmen Deutscher Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts von August Sander (Munich, 1929), pls. 1-60

YES, YES, YES, YES: Difference And Repetition in Pictures of the Olbricht Collection (Leverkusen: Museum Morsbroich, 2005), pp. 10 and 143-51

The Moment Is Eternity: Works from the Olbricht Collection (Berlin: me Collectors Room Berlin, 2019), pp. 108-9