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Invitation of Thomas Billhardt to Beirut

Topic: Travels
Periods:
  • 1981
Artists:
  • Thomas Billhardt
  • Ismail Shammout
The Secretary General of the General Union of Arab Artists, Ismail Shammout, invites the photographer Thomas Billhardt from the GDR to participate in the opening of the group exhibition Palästina kämpft in Beirut. Billhardt was traveling in an African country at the time and was unable to accept the invitation.
This information is taken from correspondence between the Ministry of Culture of the GDR and the Embassy of the GDR in Lebanon.

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