Lot 4166: Color Photography (W. Frentz): Portait of Adolf Hitler

Portrait of Adolf Hitler. 1940. Vintage chromogenic color print on Agfa-Color paper. 28 x 22 cm. Mounted to orginal grey board, signed and dated by the photographer in pencil below the image on the mount.
Along with Heinrich Hoffmann, the cameraman and photographer Walter Frentz was one of the most important propaganda photographers during the Third Reich. In the 1930s - 1940s he worked as a cameraman for Leni Riefenstahl. He was one of the few photographers allowed in Hitler's closer circle and the more private photos he made of Hitler were never intended for publication. Frentz took part in the early experiments with color paper in Leverkusen. - A few surface scratches, otherwise with strong colors and in very good condition.
Lit.: Hans Georg Hiller von Gaertringen (ed.). Das Auge des dritten Reiches. Munich 2007.