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HORST TAPPE* (Gütersloh 1938 - 2005 Vevey)

Oskar Kokoschka painting Ezra Pound, around 1960
gelatin silver print 17,9 x 24,2 cm
verso photographer's stamp

SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE € 250 - 500
STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE € 250

Horst Tappe was a German photographer who lived in Switzerland since 1963. Tappe‘s portrait photographs have appeared in newspapers and magazines worldwide for decades and have been presented to the public in numerous solo exhibitions. Tappe was friends with the writer Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) and the painter and graphic artist Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980) for many years. Like Tappe, both lived on Lake Geneva, and the photographer immortalized them both in countless portraits, a selection of these photos is available in two books. See: Horst Tappe, Tilo Richter (ed.): ”Kokoschka“, Gva, Basel 2005. Further artists and styles: Konrad Adenauer, Isabel Allende, W. H. Auden, Willy Brandt, Elias Canetti, Charlie Chaplin, Noël Coward, Salvador Dalí, Ian Fleming, Patricia Highsmith, Ernst Jünger, Gabriel García Márquez, Pablo Picasso, Ezra Pound, Salman Rushdie, Georges Simenon, Susan Sontag, Wole Soyinka, Igor Strawinsky, Peter Ustinov
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