Lot 2147: Herbert Tobias - "Ein Schlosser von Siemens träumt sich Kinostar, Berlin“ (Siemens mechanic dreams himself a moviestar, Berlin)

Herbert Tobias
"Ein Schlosser von Siemens träumt sich Kinostar, Berlin“ (Siemens mechanic dreams himself a moviestar, Berlin)
Signed in black felt-tip pen in the margin lower right, dated and titled lower left. On the reverse monogrammed and annotated in pencil by Herbert Tobias
Later gelatin silver print. Agfa paper
13 1/2 x 13 5/8 in. (19 3/4 x 15 7/8 in.)

1957

With isolated slight retouchings

Herbert Tobias, fotografien 1950?–1980, ed. Hans Eppendorfer, Berlin 1994, p. 55 (there dated: 1965) / Der Fotograf Herbert Tobias 1924–1982, Blicke und Begehren, ed. Ulrich Domröse, Steidl, Göttingen 2008, cat. no. 112, p. 197 (there dated: 1960)

From Herbert Tobias 1981 to the current owner