The True Face of Germany - Lower Saxony
A 1942 photographic portrait gallery of the people of Northern Germany - Lower Saxony.
All b&w plates, 78 plates, mainly of old faces marked by hard life in the marshes and North Sea.
A lumberjack's wife, mother of 11, is wearing Mother Cross around her neck.
Younger women wear the costumes of their counties or profession.
Farmers and fishermen are depicted as well.
This is one of the rarest volumes of this series with only 7,000 copies
in 1942 in the first (and only) edition.
[Erna Lendvai-Dircksen was born in 1883. She first studied painting, and in 1910 took up photography.
In 1911 she began her magnum opus, a photographic study of the peasants of all the German regions,
which she continued until the Second World War.
In 1933 she receives acclaim as the photographer of "the True Face of Germany" ,
as opposed to the work of August Sander. In 1943 her archives are destroyed in an air raid.
This volume is part of her extended document of the German peoples.]
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Hardcover
- 84 pages
- 78 awesome full page black and white photos
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In good - very good condition.
Foxing to boards, edges, endpapers and fly leaf. Handwritten inscription on fly leaf. Photo pages are crisp and in near fine condition!
All pages are complete and tight in the binding.
Approx/Measurements: 7-1/2" x 10-1/4" ~1 lbs.
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by Erna Lendvai-Dircksen
Published by: Gauv. Bayreuth
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