With an outstanding sense of timing, Robert Lebeck (1929 – 2014) captured extraordinary moments and distinguished himself as one of the most prominent photographers of the German post-war era.
Photographing celebrities and well-known personalities can be a tricky affair. That wasn’t the case, however, if the great German photographer Robert Lebeck was behind the camera. He worked with famous people from politics and culture and shot them in a very natural, almost playful light.
Photographing celebrities and well-known personalities can be a tricky affair. That wasn’t the case, however, if the great German photographer Robert Lebeck was behind the camera. He worked with famous people from politics and culture and shot them in a very natural, almost playful light.
Alfred Hitchcock, Hamburg, 1960 |
Nico and Andy Warhol in New York, 1967 |
Billy Wilder with his wife Audrey, Berlin 1961 |
Clark Gable and Sophia Loren, Rome 1959 |
Dalai Lama in India, 1971 |
Diana Rigg and Curt Jurgens, 1968 |
Duke Ellington, Frankfurt, 1956 |
Dizzy Gillespie, Frankfurt, 1956 |
Earl Hines, 1956 |
Eartha Kitt, 1960 |
Elvis Presley in Friedberg, Hessen 1958 |
Excited Muslims tore the turban from his head Ayatollah Khomeini after his arrival in Tehran, 1979 |
German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, 1976 |
Friedrich Dürrenmatt, 1986 |
Friedrich Hundertwasser, 1983 |
Helmut Kohl, near the Capitol, 1972 |
Horst Janssen, 1980 |
Jackie Kennedy & Lee Radziwill at Senator Robert Kennedy's funeral, New York, 1968 |
Jayne Mansfield, Berlin 1961 |
Jean-Luc Godard with his wife Anna Karina, Berlin 1961 |
John Ray and Gerhard Schroeder. Hannover, 1986 |
Joseph Beuys, 1970 |
Klaus Kinski, Rome 1969 |
Konrad Adenauer, 1966 |
Lionel Hampton, 1956 |
Louis Armstrong, 1956 |
Maria Callas, Stuttgart 1959 |
President L.B. Johnson and his grandson. 1967 |
Robert Rauschenberg, 1968 |
Romy Schneider in Quiberon, Brittany 1981 |
Simone Signoret, 1966 |
Ute Lemper, 1986 |
Willy Brandt, 1973 |
Husak, Ulbricht, Breschnew and Gomulka on the 20th anniversary of the GDR, East Berlin 1969 |
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