Robert Lebeck - Willy Brandt, Rücktritt, Bonn - image-1
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Lot 705 D

Robert Lebeck - Willy Brandt, Rücktritt, Bonn

Auction 1232 - overview Cologne
01.12.2023, 14:00 - Photography
Estimate: 800 € - 1.000 €
Result: 1.260 € (incl. premium)

Robert Lebeck

Willy Brandt, Rücktritt, Bonn
1974

Gelatin silver print, printed later. 30 x 44.5 cm (49 x 58.8 cm). Signed and titled in pencil 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.

Provenance

Private collection, Northern Germany

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