August Sander, Sekretärin beim Westdeutschen Rundfunk in Köln (Secretary at West German Radio in Cologne) 1931Gelatin silver print 18 x 24 cm © Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur –August Sander Archive, Cologne Courtesy August Sander Family Collection and Hauser & Wirth.
Opening February 13, [Hauser & Wirth](https://www.hauserwirth.com/) in partnership with the [Los Angeles Philharmonic (LA Phil)](https://www.laphil.com/) present ‘August Sander: New Women, New Men, and New Identities.’ The exhibition combines pathbreaking portraits from renowned German photographer August Sander and original examples of the first gay and lesbian journals ever published. Marking the first solo exhibition in Los Angeles in over a decade devoted to Sander’s groundbreaking work.
‘New Women, New Men, and New Identities’ is curated by Stephanie Barron, senior curator and head of modern art of Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and independent curator Nana Bahlmann. The exhibition puts forth stunning imagery of its vibrant feminist and queer movements showcasing two dozen of Sander’s most iconic portraits of artists, bohemians, and intellectuals of the 1920s. To be specific, photographs bearing testimony to the social shifts taking place during the Weimar era, which is deemed a time of unprecedented democratic freedom in Germany.
 1925-1926 (printed 1990) Gelatin silver print 24 x 18 cm / 9 1/2 x 7 1/8 in © Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur –August Sander A…](https://assets-global.website-files.com/62ee0bbe0c783a903ecc0ddb/6472bc76e38189dbb7f15e65_August%2BSander%2BHauser%2BWirth.jpeg)
 1925-1926 (printed 1990) Gelatin silver print 24 x 18 cm / 9 1/2 x 7 1/8 in © Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur –August Sander A…](https://assets-global.website-files.com/62ee0bbe0c783a903ecc0ddb/6472bc76e38189dbb7f15e65_August%2BSander%2BHauser%2BWirth.jpeg)
August Sander, Malerehepaar \[Martha und Otto Dix\](The Painter Otto Dix and his Wife Martha) 1925-1926 (printed 1990) Gelatin silver print 24 x 18 cm / 9 1/2 x 7 1/8 in © Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur –August Sander Archive, Cologne Courtesy August Sander Family Collection and Hauser & Wirth
The exhibition is also a project of ‘Weimar Variations,’ a collection of public events related to the LA Phil’s month-long, citywide festival ‘Weimar Republic: Germany 1918 – 1933.’ The extensive and dramatic array of programs will be led by Conductor Laureate Esa-Pekka Salonen, diving into the musical culture of the politically-charged Weimar era in Germany. Weimar era was marked by incredible intellectual productivity, having various German artists pioneer new forms in the fields of literature, art, architecture, music, dance, drama, and film. At its peak, the Weimar era gave rise to a fourteen-year period of new social tolerance, with avant-garde ideas and lifestyles that challenged the constraints of tradition.
Sander’s photographs will be in the company of the first-ever published gay and lesbian magazines, pamphlets, scientific studies, books, and other documents that provide a unique insight into the trailblazing activities of the publishers, activists, and researchers who worked pushed the social norm.
‘August Sander: New Women, New Men, and New Identities’ will be on view at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles through 12 April 2020. The exhibition will also be presented in the gallery’s Book & Printed Matter Lab, a space devoted to explorations of the critical place that books and printed matter occupy in the practice of artists.
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