Bricklayer

August Sander · 1928

You're looking at Bricklayer — a photograph by Sander, nineteen twenty-eight. The piece is gelatin silver print, about 26 by 19 centimeters. It is among the darkest surfaces here: measured across the whole picture it gives back very little light.

Medium Gelatin silver print · Dimensions 10 3/16 × 7 3/8" (25.8 × 18.7 cm) · Credit Acquired through the generosity of the family of August Sander

Hanging beside it in Gallery 514: For Thine / is the kingdom (Denn Dein / ist das Reich) from The Lord's Prayer (Das Vater Unser), The Poet Max Herrmann-Neisse

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: New York, Diego Rivera, Handsplay, Paris, Vitality–Yvette Guilbert, Frida Rivera, David Wojnarowicz

More by August Sander here: Bohemians [Willi Bongard and Gottfried Brockmann], Police Officer, Proletarian Intellectuals [Else Schuler, Tristan Rémy, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, Gerd Arntz], Painter [Anton Räderscheidt], Girl in Fairground Caravan, Match-seller