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Umbo
(Otto Umbehr, 1902-1980)Unheimliche Straße

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 29.11.2025

Unheimliche Straße. 1928. Gelatin silver print on Agfa paper, printed 1977. 30 x 23 cm. Signed, editioned "60/100" and dated by the photographer in pencil on the verso; mounted along upper edge to board, editioned "60/100", dated and signed as well as dedicated by the photographer in pencil below the image on the mount and annotated in pencil on mount verso.

Otto Umbehr, known as UMBO, was a key figure in early 20th-century avant-garde and modernist photography. The photograph offered here ranks among his most iconic images, though the original negative was lost early on. Only a few vintage prints of this work are known to exist. In 1977, UMBO rephotographed one of these rare prints and produced a small edition of high-quality prints, issued as the annual gift for members of the Kestner Gesellschaft. – Small retouched emulsion crack in lower right in edge, small retouched spot in mid upper area, otherwise in very good condition.

Lit.: Herbert Molderings. Umbo: Otto Umbehr 1902-1980. Düsseldorf: Richter, 1995, ill. plate 52.