Jun 06, 2002 - Sale 1938

Sale 1938 - Lot 159

Price Realized: $ 1,150
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
SANDER, AUGUST. Antlitz Der Zeit. Introduction by Alfred Döblin. Illustrated with reproductions of Sander's portraits. 4to, yellow cloth, lightly soiled, spine cocked; preliminaries foxed, bookplate affixed to front pastedown. first edition.<> Munich, 1929

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This rare volume represents the realization of Sander's project, "Twentieth Century People," in which he documented German folk in their social roles in order to capture what he termed as "an image of our time." Originally well recieved, the publication was banned and the bookplates destroyed by the Nazi regime in 1934.<