Los 4226

Niggemeyer, Elisabeth
(1930-2025)Children in Berlin

Children in Berlin. 1962. Vintage gelatin silver print on Agfa paper. 23,7 x 29,7 cm. Signed by the photographer in ink and annotated in pencil on the verso.

Elisabeth Niggemeyer was born in Bochum in 1930. After training as a photographer in Munich, she began documenting cities in the 1950s. Her first stops were Munich, London and Bonn. In 1957, she moved to Berlin and in 1964, together with Gina Angreß and Wolf Jobst Siedler, she published the photo book Die gemordete Stadt (The Murdered City), a portrayal of Berlin's urban development in transition at the time. – Slightly buckled, otherwise in very good condition.