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18-545: The museum was founded in 1992 after the SK Stiftung Kultur bought the archive of the photographs of August Sander . from Gerd Sander, August Sander's grandson. On February 10, 2022, claiming fair use , August's great-grandson Julian Sander released the entire archive online as almost free (other than a small admin fee) non fungible tokens (NFT) made available via the OpenSea NFT marketplace. SK Stiftung Kultur issued

36-509: A copyright infringement notice to OpenSea, stating that it held the copyright of the archive until 2032. The museum sometimes lends the photographs from the original archive for exhibits about Sander, his work and that of his contemporaries. The museum was one of the organizers of the Bernd & Hila Becher show at the Met Museum in 2022. The collection includes over 30,000 photographs from around

54-610: A possible exhibition in the Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur in Cologne. The award is now presented every two years; the first winner was Francesco Neri from Faenza, Italy. From the collection of the August Sander Archive, exhibitions are regularly held, dedicated to individual aspects of August Sander's oeuvre. The exchange with regional and international institutions is very important for this purpose. This

72-427: Is Beautiful ). This, his best-known book, is a collection of one hundred of his photographs in which natural forms, industrial subjects and mass-produced objects are presented with the clarity of scientific illustrations . The book's title was chosen by his publisher; Renger-Patzsch's preferred title for the collection was Die Dinge ("The Things"). In its sharply focused and matter-of-fact style, his work exemplifies

90-682: Is part of the collection of Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur , in Cologne . The photographic work has been kept there since 1993 with a large number of original photographs, negatives and documents. When August Sander died in 1964, his son, Gunther Sander, took control of the estate. After his death in 1987, his son Gerd Sander managed the artistic legacy before he sold it to the Kulturstiftung der Stadtsparkasse Köln (now SK Stiftung Kultur der Sparkasse Köln Bonn) in December 1992, equating it with

108-545: Is supported by many exhibition projects carried out in cooperation as well as an extensive loan system. Since 1992, over 100 exhibitions have taken place this way. Albert Renger-Patzsch Albert Renger-Patzsch (June 22, 1897 – September 27, 1966) was a German photographer associated with the New Objectivity . Renger-Patzsch was born in Würzburg and began making photographs by age twelve. After military service in

126-728: The First World War he studied chemistry at the Königlich-Sächsisches Polytechnikum in Dresden . In the early 1920s he worked as a press photographer for the Chicago Tribune before becoming a freelancer and, in 1925, publishing a book, Das Chorgestühl von Kappenberg ( The Choir Stalls of Cappenberg ). He had his first museum exhibition in Lübeck in 1927. A second book followed in 1928, Die Welt ist schön ( The World

144-402: The 20th Century , which is available in book form and has been presented several times in exhibitions. No permanent exhibition on the work of August Sander is shown in the institution's exhibition rooms, but works from the August Sander Archive are regularly included in the changing exhibition program. The August Sander Prize was first announced in December 2017. It is linked to the promotion of

162-502: The estate was purchased, it included around 10,700 original negatives, around 3,500 original prints, the original correspondence and the private library of the artist, as well as furniture and parts of the photographic equipment. Through targeted purchases, more than 6,000 original prints by August Sander are now part of the archive of the Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur. It is the world's largest collection of August Sander's work. Other important collections of original prints of

180-730: The esthetic of the New Objectivity that flourished in the arts in Germany during the Weimar Republic . Like Edward Weston and Berenice Abbott in the United States, Renger-Patzsch believed that the value of photography was in its ability to reproduce the texture of reality, and to represent the essence of an object. He wrote: "The secret of a good photograph—which, like a work of art, can have esthetic qualities—is its realism ... Let us therefore leave art to artists and endeavor to create, with

198-483: The means peculiar to photography and without borrowing from art, photographs which will last because of their photographic qualities." Among his works of the 1920s are Echeoeria (1922) and Viper's Head ( ca.  1925). During the 1930s Renger-Patzsch made photographs for industry and advertising. His archives were destroyed during the Second World War . In 1944 he moved to Wamel , Möhnesee , where he lived

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216-649: The name August Sander Archive. Since then, the estate, and thus the August Sander Archive, has been looked after by the Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur in Cologne and processed from an academic museum perspective. All rights of use existing on August Sander's work have been transferred to Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur . These are held exclusively by the Photographic Collection / SK Foundation for Culture, without restriction in terms of location, content and time. The rights are administered in cooperation with VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. When

234-758: The photographer exist in the J. Paul Getty Museum , in Los Angeles, in the Museum of Modern Art , in New York, in the Pinakothek der Moderne , in Munich, in the Museum Ludwig , in Cologne, Collection of Photography, and in Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg in Hamburg. From 1992 to 1996 the August Sander Archive was located at St.-Apern-Straße 17-21, in Cologne, after which it moved to

252-411: The premises at Im Mediapark 7, also in Cologne. With the establishment and sale of the August Sander Archive to the Kulturstiftung der Stadtsparkasse Köln in the 1990s, Gerd Sander laid the foundation for an institution from which the Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur could develop; an institution that is primarily dedicated to factual, conceptual photography in the artistic field. Gerd Sander

270-422: The work of young contemporary artists in the field of factual and conceptual photography. Against the background of the important portrait photographs by August Sander, the photographic works of the applicants should primarily relate to the subject of the human portrait. Eligible are artists up to 40 years of age, of international origin, with a focus on photography. The prize is endowed with 5,000 euros and linked to

288-603: The world. In 2021, the museum published From Becher to Blume:Photographs from the Garnatz Collection and Die Photographische Sammlung-SK Stiftung Kultur, in Dialogue . 50°56′56″N 6°56′36″E  /  50.9488°N 6.9432°E  / 50.9488; 6.9432 August Sander Archive The August Sander Archive ( German : August Sander Archiv ) comprises the estate of the German photographer August Sander and

306-504: Was also added, with a large collection of photographs by Jim Dine . One of the main goals of the Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur is to provide scientific support and processing for the August Sander Archive. August Sander's estate is being preserved from a museum conservation perspective, supplemented if possible by new acquisitions, researched and presented to the public in the form of publications and changing exhibitions. Mention should be of Sander's central project People of

324-632: Was chairman of the advisory board of the Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur until 2008. Other important German estates were specifically attached to the institution, such as the Bernd and Hilla Becher Archive, legacies of Albert Renger-Patzsch , Karl Blossfeldt (in collaboration with the University of the Arts, Berlin) and the former collection of the German Society for Photography . International photography

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