Lessing, Erich#

b. Vienna, July 13, 1923, photographer. Emigrated to Palestine in 1939, reporter in the British army, returned 1947, worked for the news agency Associated Press and for magazines (Magnum, Life). Documented especially the period of Austria's reconstruction after World War II and around the time of the 1955 Austrian state treaty as well as the Hungarian revolution of 1956; his work also focussed on the art of the ancient world, the Orient and artistic original documents. Awarded the Grand Austrian State Prize in 1997.

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