Barbara Klemm - Parade zum 40. Jahrestag der DDR, Ost-Berlin (Parade on the 40th anniversary of the GDR, East-Berlin) - image-1

Lot 237 D

Barbara Klemm - Parade zum 40. Jahrestag der DDR, Ost-Berlin (Parade on the 40th anniversary of the GDR, East-Berlin)

Auction 1058 - overview Cologne
27.11.2015, 14:30 - Photography
Estimate: 1.000 €
Result: 2.232 € (incl. premium)

Barbara Klemm

Parade zum 40. Jahrestag der DDR, Ost-Berlin (Parade on the 40th anniversary of the GDR, East-Berlin)
1989

Gelatin silver print, printed c. 1999. 26.2 x 38.8 cm (30.5 x 40.5 cm). Signed, dated and titled in pencil and photographer's stamp on the verso. - Matted.

On 7th October 1989, regardless of the mass exodus of the FDR inhabitants to Hungary, which had lasted for weeks, the FDR celebrated its 40th (and at the same time last) foundation day with a military parade of the NVA before the eyes of the world public and guests of honour, among them the Soviet head of state and party chairman Michail Gorbatschow.

Literature

Christoph Stölzl (ed.), Unsere Jahre. Bilder aus Deutschland 1968 - 1998. Von Barbara Klemm, exhib.cat. Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Munich 1999, ill. p. 113