Barbara Klemm - Tag der deutschen Vereinigung, Berlin, 3. Oktober 1990 (German Unity Day, Berlin, 3rd October 1990) - image-1

Lot 249 D

Barbara Klemm - Tag der deutschen Vereinigung, Berlin, 3. Oktober 1990 (German Unity Day, Berlin, 3rd October 1990)

Auction 1058 - overview Cologne
27.11.2015, 14:30 - Photography
Estimate: 1.000 €
Result: 1.984 € (incl. premium)

Barbara Klemm

Tag der deutschen Vereinigung, Berlin, 3. Oktober 1990 (German Unity Day, Berlin, 3rd October 1990)
1990

Gelatin silver print, printed 1997. 28.8 x 39.3 cm (30.1 x 40.4 cm). Signed, dated and titled in pencil and photographer's stamp on the verso. - Matted.

The photograph shows Oskar Lafontaine, Willy Brandt, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Helmut and Hannelore Kohl, Richard von Weizsäcker and Lothar de Maizière on the day of the German unity in front of the Reichstag building on 3rd October 1990, one day before the new all German Bundestag [parliament], which was supplemented by 144 representatives from the new federal states, convened in Berlin.

Literature

Barbara Klemm. Fotografien. Photographs 1968 - 2013, exhib.cat. Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Wädenswill 2013, ill. p. 134