Jewgeni Chaldej - Stalin auf der Potsdamer Konferenz, Juli 1945 (Stalin at the Potsdam conference, July 1945) - image-1

Lot 204 D

Jewgeni Chaldej - Stalin auf der Potsdamer Konferenz, Juli 1945 (Stalin at the Potsdam conference, July 1945)

Auction 1058 - overview Cologne
27.11.2015, 14:30 - Photography
Estimate: 700 €
Result: 682 € (incl. premium)

Jewgeni Chaldej

Stalin auf der Potsdamer Konferenz, Juli 1945 (Stalin at the Potsdam conference, July 1945)
1945

Gelatin silver print, printed 1990. 28.5 x 39.5 cm (30 x 40 cm). Signed in pencil on the verso.

The three primary Allies of WWII met from 17th July to 2nd August 1945 in Cecilienhof Palace to discuss Germany's future. This image shows the Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin at the conference table, surrounded among others by Clement Attlee, Winston Churchill's successor as British prime minister, the Soviet state secretary Wjatscheslaw Molotow and the U.S. president Harry S. Truman.

Literature

Ernst Volland/Heinz Krimmer (ed.), Von Moskau nach Berlin. Bilder des Russischen Fotografen Jewgeni Chaldej, Berlin 1999, ill. p. 101