• March 28, 2024

80 years Robert Lebeck: Masterpieces of a photographer

The picture has to be right

It's the week of the 80th birthdays: After actress Nadja Tiller (16 March) and writer Christa Wolf (18 March) celebrates the photo reporter Robert Lebeck on March 21, his 80th birthday. As far as we know, the ladies Tiller and Wolf never landed in front of Lebeck's lens - and probably will not. Because "Smiling Bob", as Stern editor-in-chief Henri Nannen called Robert Lebeck, ended his career several years ago. Now a native Berliner, who now lives in his hometown again, is pleased about the photos taken by his youngest son Oscar, as Lebeck recently told in an interview. And if it pulls his family into the distance, he prefers to stay home. That's probably what happened when you traveled around the globe for 50 years and brought the Germans closer to the worlds of Asia and Africa - in newspapers and in magazines like the Stern.



This photo of a young African who stole King Baudouin's sword at the Congo Independence Day celebrations in 1960 went around the world and is one of Lebeck's most famous paintings. Travel reports were a focus of his work, but also as a portrait photographer Robert Lebeck has made a name: Legendary about his pictures of Romy Schneider or the photo of Alfred Hitchcock, peeping out from behind a door.

"The picture has to be right," was Lebeck's divise. Some of his harmonious masterpieces you can see in ours Photo Show.

Photograph Robert Lebeck Retrospektive (March 2024).



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