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Umbo
(Otto Umbehr, 1902-1980)Schattenwunder

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 6.6.2026

Schattenwunder. 1928. Gelatin silver print, printed ca. 1975. 28 x 20,5 cm (sheet 35,2 x 27,8 cm). Signed by the photographer in white ink in the lower right corner; portfolio/copyright stamp, therein numbered "32/50" in ink on the verso. From the UMBO Portfolio: 10 Photographien 1927-1930, Galerie Rudolf Kicken, Cologne, 1980.

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 series of street scenes taken from an aerial perspective. Only a few vintage prints of these works are known to exist, and in the mid- to late 1970s UMBO produced a small edition both with Galerie Rudolf Kicken and later with the Kestner Gesellschaft.

Literatur: Herbert Molderings. Umbo: Otto Umbehr 1902-1980. Düsseldorf: Richter 1995, ill. plate 53.