Herbert List

He was born in Hamburg in 1903, was one of the most important photo artists of the 20th century, a coffee dealer, bon vivant and flâneur, a seeker and an explorer, a poet of Homeric light who fled the darkness without being able to escape it.The story of his life begins in Hamburg, travels widely around the world and ends in Munich. For a long time, it is the story of a lover without a permanent home, an odyssey through European metropolises, through a world that he made into the mirror of his visions, into his own cosmos of beauty. After the catastrophe of the war, the artist opened up to the craft of reportage. As a portraitist of great artistic personalities, he became the chronicler of a European intellectual epoch. This book documents the story of a great hamburger who was at home in the world in text and images.