Since 1992 Art Resource, NY has been the exclusive North American agent for fine art images from the Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archives (now the Lessing Photo Archive/Images. Our longstanding and successful collaboration with Erich went beyond professional contacts extending into a personal friendship that has lasted until his passing in 2018. His keen eye, knowledge of history and politics, and his self-effacing humor will endure through his impressive body of outstanding photographs.

Gerhard Gruitrooy, Ph.D.
Director of Research

ART RESOURCE | USA

We are proud of our longstanding cooperation with Lessing Images, which gives us the opportunity to represent in Italy the work of a great figure who belongs to the history of photography.

Silvia Prina
Desk

CONTRASTO | ITALY

The Lessing Archive is unique in that it not only offers the most authentic images of fine art, but is the resource for the photographic documents of sculpture, pottery and other relics of the history of civilization.

Robert L. Kirschenbaum
President

PACIFIC PRESS SERVICE | JAPAN

When akg-images London was formed in 1994, we were proud to represent Erich Lessing. The renowned Lessing Photo Archive is still at the heart of our collection, which now totals more than 10 million images. Erich Lessing’s incomparable and important body of work authentically documents both fine art and the history of culture and civilisation. It remains relevant today due to his high standards of photography and the knowledge and experience which informed each of his shoots.

Jonnie Léger
Managing Director

AKG – IMAGES LTD | UK

Was macht das fotografische Lebenswerk von Erich Lessing so einzigartig? Es ist die unvergleichliche Qualität der Aufnahmen gepaart mit der herausragenden Expertise bei der Auswahl der Objekte, die nur eine Persönlichkeit leisten konnte, die all dies auch gelebt hat. Hinter allen Aufnahmen steht der Mensch Erich Lessing, der unzählige Länder bereist, die wichtigsten Werke und Orte festgehalten und damit einen Kanon der europäischen Kultur hinterlassen hat.

Jürgen Raible
Archiv- und Personalleiter

AKG – IMAGES | GERMANY