Leni Riefenstahl
Leni Riefenstahl Portfolio
1930-1993
12 offset lithographs on wove paper, printed 2002. From 31.1 x 47.5 cm (39.5 x 49.5 cm) to 37.9 x 47.6 cm (39.5 x 49.5 cm), both portrait and landscape formates. Each print in the margin signed in pencil lower right, editioned lower left as well as printed information on the subject in three languages at lower edge. Copy 69 from the de luxe edition limited to 100 copies (total edition 250 copies). Edition DACO-Verlag, Stuttgart. - In original portfolio folder, thereon editioned in pencil, as well as printed information on the edition.
Along with photographs by Leni Riefenstahl, the portfolio contains a portrait of her as an actress in the film 'Das blaue Licht' by Walter Riml, film stills from her films 'Olympia' and 'Tiefland', as well as photographs which were taken by camera men and photographers on the movie set, including among others, the photograph 'The lightning of the Olympic flame' by Willy Zielke.
The motifs:
Storm over Mont Blanc - rifts in the glacier
Leni Riefenstahl: publicity still as Junta in 'Das blaue Licht'
Leni Riefenstahl: during the filming of 'Tiefland'
Wolve in the film 'Tiefland'
Olympia, 1936: Gold medal winner of the men's high divers
Olympia, 1936: The lightning of the Olympic flame
Olympia, 1936: Eight meter boats crowding at the turning point
Olympia, 1936: Dive from the 10-metres-tower
Two lyre players in the Nuby village Tadoro
Njertun, the love dance of the people of Kau
Feather Star, Malduve Island
Tentacles of the giant sea anemone Stoichactis, British West Indies