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YEVGENI CHALDEI* (Donezk 1917 - 1997 Moscow)

Raising of the flag on the Berlin Reichstag, 1945
gelatin silver print 23,6 x 29,3 cm
printed later in Czechoslavakia in the 1960s

SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE € 500 - 1000
STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE € 500

Yevgeny Ananyevich Khaldei was a Soviet photographer. As a war correspondent, he covered, among other events, the conquest of Berlin by Soviet troops in April/May 1945. His photo ”On the Berlin Reichstag, May 2, 1945“ shows the raising of the Soviet flag on the Reichstag building and brought him worldwide fame. After the Soviet Army‘s victory in the Battle of Berlin, he searched for a suitable motif with high symbolic value. Whether he was familiar with Joe Rosenthal‘s photograph „Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima,“ taken a few months earlier, is disputed. He received red tablecloths from the caretaker of the TASS agency and had a tailor friend sew three victory flags from them. With three soldiers he met in the entrance area of the burning Reichstag, he climbed to the roof of the building and photographed them raising the flag. The result was a series of 36 photographs entitled ”On the Berlin Reichstag, May 2, 1945". Further artists and styles: Olga Lander, Robert Capa, Ernst Volland, war photography, photojournalism, iconography
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