Introduce briefly

• Sander was born on November 17, 1876, in Herdorf, Germany [1].

• He learned about photography while working at a local iron-ore mine, assisting a photographer [1].

• With financial support from his uncle, he bought photographic equipment and set up his own darkroom [1].

• He spent his military service as an assistant to Georg Jung, working throughout Germany [1].

• In 1901, he started working for a photo studio in Linz, Austria-Hungary, and eventually became the sole owner [1].

• In 1911, he began his series "People of the 20th Century" to show a cross-section of society during the Weimar Republic [1].

• Sander came in contact with the Cologne Progressives, a radical group of artists, in the early 1920s [1].

• In 1927, he traveled to Sardinia and took around 500 photographs, but a planned book about his travels was not completed [1].

• His book "Face of our Time" was published in 1929 and contains a selection of 60 portraits from his series "People of the 20th Century" [1].

• Under the Nazi regime, his work and personal life were greatly constrained, and his book was seized in 1936 [1].

• During World War II, he moved to a small village and saved the most important part of his work, while his Cologne studio was destroyed [1].

• In 1953, he sold a portfolio of photographs of Cologne to the Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, which was published in book format in 1988 [1].

• In 1962, a selection of photographs from his "People of the 20th Century" project was published in book format [1].

• Sander married Anna Seitenmacher in 1902, and they had children together [1].

• His son Erich was arrested by the Nazis in 1934 and died in prison in 1944 [1].

• Sander died in Cologne on April 20, 1964, and was buried next to his son in Melaten Cemetery [1].

• In 1984, he was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum [1].

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