Erich Lessing | From Liberation to Liberty Austria. 1947. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing | From Liberation to Liberty Federal President Dr. Theodor Körner on the terrace of the presidential residence. Grinzing, Vienna, Austria. 1953. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing | From Liberation to Liberty Austria. 1947. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing | From Liberation to Liberty Soviet Prime Minister Nikolaï A. Boulgannine, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower, French Prime Minister Edgar Faure and British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden pose for the press in the courtyard of (...)
Erich Lessing | From Liberation to Liberty Meeting of the Allied Council of Austria. Caps of the four occupation powers. At the end of the war the Allies: USA, Great-Britain, France and Soviet Union occupied the country. Vienna, Austria. 1954. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing | From Liberation to Liberty From the building of the Allied Council, Soviet and French soldiers watch the arrival of the Foreign Ministers for the signing of the Austrian State Treaty. After the end of the occupation of Austr (...)
Erich Lessing | From Liberation to Liberty Vienna, Austria. 1955. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing | From Liberation to Liberty A friendly side of the occupation a Soviet Army choir sings to an Austrian concert public. At the end of the war the Allies: USA, Great-Britain, France and Soviet Union occupied the country. Vienna (...)
Erich Lessing | From Liberation to Liberty The death-mask of the Hungarian composer Franz Lehar (1870-1948) is taken on his deathbed. Ischl, Austria. 1948. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing | From Liberation to Liberty Ball at the Vienna 'Musikverein', the city's largest concert hall. Banker Georg Zimmer-Lehmann with partner. Vienna, Austria. 1955. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing | From Liberation to Libertye Couple at a 'Heurigen', the traditional tavern which serves new wine. Vienna, Austria. 1954. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing | From Liberation to Liberty Ball in the Opera. High point of the carnival end of February. Vienna, Austria. 1960. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing | From Liberation to Liberty Insurrection. In the council room of the city hall. In order to calm the insurrection crowd outside, the portrait of Lenin is rapidly being removed by insurgent soldiers. Gyor, Hungary. October-Nov (...)
Erich Lessing AUSTRIA. Vienna. Refreshments at the ball. After the sad war years people start enjoying themselves at popular balls. 1953. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing | From Liberation to Liberty Mistress and maid carry remains of bourgeois possessions. A war invalid in the background. The Second World War effects were devastating: cities and infrastructure were largely reduced to rubble, a (...)
Erich Lessing | From Liberation to Liberty Operahouse ("Staatsoper"). The body of operasinger Maria Cebotari (1910-1949) lies in state in the war-damaged Vienna Operahouse. Viennese music lovers file past. Vienna, 1949. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing AUSTRIA. Gentlemen in tophats watching the horseraces on Vienna's Freudenau racecourse,1954. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing AUSTRIA. Life in post-war Vienna: May First parade of the Austrian Socialists (SPOe)on the Ringstrasse-Boulevard. Child carries a framed picture of President Theodor Koerner. Vienna,1954 © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing | From Liberation to Liberty The people of Schattendorf visiting their dead in a cemetery surrounded by minefields on All Soul's Day. Schattendorf, Vienna. 1949-1952. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
