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Robert Lebeck (1929-2014), ‘Klaus Kinski in Rom’, Signed, 1969

Currency:EUR Category:Collectibles Start Price:800.00 EUR Estimated At:1,280.00 - 1,600.00 EUR
Robert Lebeck (1929-2014), ‘Klaus Kinski in Rom’, Signed, 1969
Gelatin silver print on Baryta paper
Germany, 1969, printed later
Robert Lebeck (1929-2014) - German photographer and photojournalist
Verso handwritten inscription with pencil ‘© Robert Lebeck Klaus Kinski in Rom, 1969. Foto von Robert Lebeck’
Image size: 24.9 x 36.3 cm
Very good condition
Robert Lebeck is one of the most famous German photo journalists, who portrayed numerous personalities, including Klaus Kinski; Lebecks portraits fetch up to 3,800 euros on the auction market

This portrait was photographed by Robert Lebeck in 1969. It depicts the eccentric actor Klaus Kinski in an impressive close-up, and was taken in Rome. Robert Lebeck is one of the great German documentary photographers, who portrayed many personalities from the realm of politics and culture such as Konrad Adenauer, Alfred Hitchcock, Joseph Beuys, Elvis Presley and again beautiful women like Jackie Kennedy or Romy Schneider.



Verso is the handwritten inscription with pencil ‘© Robert Lebeck Klaus Kinski in Rom, 1969. Foto von Robert Lebeck’. The photograph is overall in very good condition with a few tiny flaws to the corners and edges. Tiny, fine abrasions within the image. The Image size is 24.9 x 36.3 cm and the sheet size: 30.5 x 40.4 cm.



Robert Lebeck (1929-2014)

Robert Lebeck was born in Berlin in 1929. He studied in Zurich and New York. He learned the art of photography as an autodidact. From 1952 onwards he worked as a photojournalist for various newspapers and magazines. For a year he was chief editor at GEO magazine. Later he worked again for the German weekly news magazine Stern. He gained international fame in 1960 with the photo series ‘Africa in the Year Zero’, which documented the independence of the Congo. Lebeck was also a major collector of 19th Century photographs, parts of his collection is held in the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. (cru)






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