Pharmacist, Linz, Germany

August Sander

1931 (printed c. 1980)

Gelatin silver print

Minneapolis Institute of Art

A full-body portrait of a stout, bearded man in a suit stands with his hands in his pockets. He is positioned in front of a wall and a large leafy plant. A full-body portrait of a stout, bearded man in a suit stands with his hands in his pockets. He is positioned in front of a wall and a large leafy plant. In the 1920s and 1930s, in his studio and around Cologne, Germany, August Sander (1876 – 1964) photographed every type of person he came across, in an attempt to capture the then-changing and diverse German society as a whole, in a project entitled “People of the 20th Century.” This endeavor is largely considered to be one of the most monumental collective portraits created in photographic history. Sander presented each of his subjects as entirely individual within their respective