The writer and documentary filmmaker Georg Stefan Troller (* 1921 Vienna) is well known to German audiences, especially through his long-running television series "Pariser Journal" and "Personenbeschreibung". Hardly anyone knows Paris as well as he does. After settling permanently on the Seine in 1949, Troller began to explore the city's more remote and condemned neighbourhoods with his Leica 35mm camera.
The original prints from around 1953-1956, which were thought to be lost, were only rediscovered by his daughter in 2017 and are now available to us in their entirety.
On Wednesday, 29 May 2019, Grisebach is now offering 58 vintage prints by Georg Stefan Troller in the "Photography" auction (silver gelatine prints. From approx. 15 x 10 cm to 20 x 13 cm, estimated price for the bundle: EUR 15,000-20,000).
Diandra Donecker, Managing Director and Head of the Photography Department: "It is exciting and special to be able to offer not just one or two photos, but a whole bundle of 58 vintage prints by this unique chronicler. Georg Stefan Troller has captured his dream of Paris in these pictures. With a tender, intelligent gaze, he provides a snapshot of a city as it no longer exists today. The photographs are both a testimony to his life story and a documentation of a metropolis in transition. The rarity and special provenance of the photographs will meet with enthusiasm among private collectors and institutions."
We would also like to invite you:
Georg Stefan Troller will read from his book "Pariser Traum" on Thursday, 9 May at 6 pm at Villa Grisebach, Fasanenstraße 25, Berlin.
Berlin, 22 March 2019