Robert Lebeck - Willy Brandt, Rücktritt, Bonn - image-1

Lot 226 D

Robert Lebeck - Willy Brandt, Rücktritt, Bonn

Auction 1058 - overview Cologne
27.11.2015, 14:30 - Photography
Estimate: 800 €
Result: 1.612 € (incl. premium)

Robert Lebeck

Willy Brandt, Rücktritt, Bonn
1974

Gelatin silver print, printed 1998. 25.2 x 37.2 cm (30.3 x 40.2 cm). Signed, dated, titled in felt tip pen and photographer's stamp on the verso. - Matted.

On 24th April 1974, Günter Guillaume - one of chancellor Willy Brandt's closest advisors - was revealed to be a GDR agent. This image shows Brandt, who took political responsibility for the entire affair, on the day of his resignation on 7th May 1974.

Literature

Gisela Kayser/Cordula Lebeck (ed.), Robert Lebeck. Fotoreporter, exhib.cat. Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Göttingen 2008, ill. pp. 146; Tete Böttger (ed.), Robert Lebeck. Vis-à-vis, Göttingen 1999, ill. p. 184