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c. 1935

National Socialist

August Sander

German, 1876 - 1964

Sander operated a commercial portrait studio, and he intended to include some of his commissioned portraits, such as this one of a Nazi official, in his documentary project People of the Twentieth Century.

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August Sander, National Socialist, c. 1935 | Philadelphia Museum of Art