Yesterday becomes tomorrow

YESTERDAY BECOMES TOMORROW

Beate Wedekind

A passionate reporter, editor-in-chief of Elle, BUNTE, Gala, chief organiser of Bambi and Goldene Kamera, TV presenter - Beate Wedekind is one of the most famous German journalists. Her stories as a society columnist are legendary, but wonderful stories also surround the Louis Vuitton suitcase from 1913 and the pictures of world-famous photographers from her private collection (see pages 110-117/152-53), which she is auctioning off at NEUMEISTER in September. Why? That is best described by her herself.

On the one hand, it's really hard for me. I am very attached to the things I have collected in the course of my exciting life. On the other hand, I am practising letting go because I plan to gradually move my centre of life to Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. I lived and worked there as a young woman 48 years ago.

Karlheinz Böhm, der Gründer der Stiftung Menschen für Menschen, und Beate Wedekind 1996 in Äthiopien.
Durch Böhm lernte sie die tüchtige junge Generation des Landes kennen; hier Wedekind, die Mentorin, mit zwei jungen Designerinnen in VintageKleidern.

For many years, I have been involved there with my initiative The New Ethiopia_Chances, Challenges, Changes for creative women entrepreneurs whose future is very close to my heart. With the proceeds of the auction, I will support these young women who are persistently working towards a better future for all in a country that has been repeatedly ravaged by crises.

My Louis Vuitton Travel Trunk was indeed once in Addis Ababa five years ago, packed with vintage dresses and displayed as a showpiece on the sidelines of a fashion show organised by an association of young women designers (see photo).

The photos from my private collection, which are also called up at NEUMEISTER, also represent epochs for me that point from yesterday into tomorrow.

SHOWTIME
MODERNE FOTOGRAPHIEN AUS EINER NIEDERSÄCHSISCHEN PRIVATSAMMLUNG

MAMARAZZA
MARIANNE FÜRSTIN ZU SAYN-WITTGENSTEIN-SAYN

The pictures of Manni Sayn-Wittgenstein's last trip in 1938 before the Second World War and of her first trips as a young wife in 1950 to Spain and Italy are very personal documents of contemporary history. In the 1980s, Manni Sayn-Wittgenstein and I often went on reportage trips together.

Als Andy Warhol 1983 bei Burda in München zwei große Werke in der Eingangshalle des neuen Verlagsgebäudes einweihte, assistierte ihm Beate Wedekind beim Signieren der limitierten Plakate.

The photographs of Andy Warhol taken by Christopher Makos in 1981 of him in wigs and full make-up could not be more topical (see pages 114/115). Warhol was, is and remains the icon of an all-gender lifestyle. The photo Karl Lagerfeld took of his writing secretary with his Hasselblad camera is a rare glimpse into his somewhat chaotic private life. The picture was taken when I was allowed to visit him in June 1988 at his city palace in the Rue de l'Université in Paris to get him to be the photographer for a session with the German top model Claudia Schiffer for the German Elle (see page 116/117).

CHRISTOPHER MAKOS
1948 Lowell/Massachusetts

ANDY WARHOL MIT 6 VERSCHIEDENEN PERÜCKEN AUS DER SERIE ALTERED IMAGES. 1981/2001

Alle verso auf dem Unterlagenkarton signiert, datiert und nummeriert. Sechs Silbergelatineabzüge.
Ca. 20 × 25 cm.
Alles gerahmt

AUKTION 410 // LOT 836
ERGEBNIS € 2.600 (inkl. 30 % Käuferaufgeld)

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KARL LAGERFELD
1938 Hamburg – 2019 Paris

HEIMARBEIT. MEIN SCHREIBTISCH, DER AUCH ZUM ZEICHNEN DIENT. 1988

Privater Arbeitsplatz des Modeschöpfers in seiner Wohnung an der Pariser Rue de l’Université.
Verso signiert, datiert und betitelt.
Silbergelatineabzug.
51 × 40,8 cm

AUKTION 410 // LOT 837
ERGEBNIS € 7.150 (inkl. 30 % Käuferaufgeld)

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Now I am looking forward to my consignments going into good hands and using the auction proceeds to give young women in Ethiopia confidence in their future.