Der Kölner Maler Heinrich Hoerle (Heinrich Hoerle, Cologne Painter)
August Sander, Der Kölner Maler Heinrich Hoerle (Heinrich Hoerle, Cologne Painter), 1928 (negative); 1970s (print), gelatin silver print, Museum Purchase: Caroline Ladd Pratt Fund, © artist or other rights holder, 89.5
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- Title
Der Kölner Maler Heinrich Hoerle (Heinrich Hoerle, Cologne Painter)
- Related Titles
original language: Der Kölner Maler Heinrich Hoerle
translated: Heinrich Hoerle, Cologne Painter
- Artist
- Date
1928 (negative); 1970s (print)
- Medium
gelatin silver print
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
image: 13 1/8 in x 9 3/4 in; sheet: 13 1/2 in x 9 13/16 in
- Collection Area
Photography
- Category
Photographs
- Object Type
photograph
- Culture
German
- Credit Line
Museum Purchase: Caroline Ladd Pratt Fund
- Accession Number
89.5
- Copyright
© artist or other rights holder
- Terms
Endeavoring to document a wide swath of German society after World War I, August Sander created a vast archive of portraits that resulted in the 1929 book Faces of Our Time and the photographic series People of the Twentieth Century. After the Nazi Party came to power in 1933, the government seized copies of Faces of Our Time and destroyed the corresponding negatives, claiming that Sander’s subjects did not meet Nazi standards of Aryan purity. Heinrich Hoerle, photographed by Sander in 1928, was a modernist German painter who was influenced by radical artistic movements such as Dada and Constructivism. His art was condemned by the Nazi regime as degenerate, and he died in Cologne at the age of 41, eight years after this portrait was made.
- Exhibitions
2003 In Varied and Particular Ways: Photographs from a Century of Photography Portland Art Museum
2010 Likeness: Portraiture from the Photography Collection Portland Art Museum
