Herbert Tobias

Photographer, Visual Artist

1924 – 1982

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Who was Herbert Tobias?

Herbert Tobias was a German photographer who specialized in black & white. He is credited with giving Christa Päffgen the sobriquet Nico. Also he made some famous portraits of the performer Valeska Gert, Andreas Baader from RAF, Hildegard Knef, Zarah Leander, Amanda Lear, Klaus Kinski, Tatjana Gsovsky, and Jean-Pierre Ponnelle.

He was born in Dessau, and died in Hamburg, from AIDS, aged 57.

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Born
Dec 14, 1924
Dessau
Nationality
  • Germany
Profession
Died
Aug 17, 1982
Hamburg

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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