Winter in the Siebengebirge
c. 1940
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 17.2 x 22.4 cm (6 3/4 x 8 13/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Kent and Marcia Minichiello
Accession Number
1997.126.4
Art Historical Context
**Winter in the Siebengebirge** *August Sander, c. 1940* atin silver print, 17.2 x 224 cm National Gallery of Art, of Kent and Marcia Minello August Sander, one of Germany's foremost photographers of the 20th, captures the stark beauty of the Siebengebirge—the Seven Mountains region along the Rhine—in this serene winter landscape. Known primarily for his monumental portrait series *People of the 20 Century*, which documented the social types of Weimar Germany with unflinching clarity, Sander occasionally turned his lens to nature. Created around 1940, amid the shadows of World War II,...