August Sander

August Sander Philosophiestudent (Erich Sander) 1926 Gelatin silver print, printed 1990 by Gerd Sander. 25.5 x 19.3 cm. Bordered in black Indian ink and with photographer's blind stamp lower left. Signed and dated by Gerd Sander in pencil as well as edition stamp, archive number and editioned in felt-tip pen on the verso. Mounted to card, edition label and stamp, therein archive number and editioned in felt tip pen and dedicated by Gerd Sander in pencil, on the reverse of the mount. Print 2 from an edition of 12. - Matted and framed. Literature Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur, Köln (ed.), August Sander. Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vol. 4: Die Stände, Göttingen 2002, ill. p. 49; NS-Dokumentationszentrum der Stadt Köln (ed.), August Sanders unbeugsamer Sohn. Erich Sander als Häftling und Gefängnisfotograf im Zuchthaus Siegburg 1935–1944. exhib.cat. NS-Dokumentationszentrum der Stadt Köln, Berlin 2015, ill. p. 13; Jacques Fredj (ed.), August Sander. Persecuted / Persecutors. People of the 20th Century, exhib.cat. Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris, Göttingen 2018, ill. p. 18 August Sander included the portrait of his 23-year-old son Erich, at that time a student of national economics and philosophy at the University of Cologne, in the sub-category "Der Gelehrte" (The Scholar) of Group 4 "Die Stände" (The Stands) of his opus "Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts" (People of the 20th Century). Due to his activities in political resistance as a member of the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany, Erich Sander was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 1934 and died in Siegburg prison in 1944, shortly before his release.