View of the Ederkopf
c. 1930-1940
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 17 x 23.2 cm (6 11/16 x 9 1/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Kent and Marcia Minichiello
Accession Number
1998.130.4
Art Historical Context
**View of the Eder** by August Sander (c. 1930–1940) captures a landscape in crisp gelatin silver print, a medium prized for its rich tonal range and fine detail that brought documentary precision to photography during the interwar years. This intimate 17 x 23.2 cm print, trimmed neatly to the image edges, invites close contemplation of Germany's natural terrain—the Ederkopf, a hill in the Westerwald—rendered with Sander's signature clarity and objectivity. Sander, a master of New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit), is renowned for his monumental portrait series *People of the 20th Century*, whi...