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August Sander was forty-eight and a lauded, well-established portrait photographer in Cologne when he made this photograph of the painter Gottfried Brockmann (1903–1983), a young artist who was associated with the Gruppe Progressiver Kunstler (Progressive Artists). Sander befriended, exhibited with, and photographed many members of the group. Politically leftist, these artists were radically opposed to the ineffectual Weimar government. They called for art that depicted the organization of work to reveal the true structure of society. Such revelations, they believed, could rupture the ruling classes’ control over Germany’s working people. Their theories held great appeal for Sander, who believed that inner character, as shaped by work, was discernable in one’s exterior features. . . .
- April Watson, Curatorial and Exhibition Assistant in the Department of Photographs Text excerpted from A Capital Collection: Masterworks from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, which is available for purchase in the Corcoran Shop. :: Click here to purchase this catalog online :: View more Photography and Media Arts
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