Legendary fashion photographer Helmut Newton will be buried in his hometown Berlin just a few yards away from the grave of German-American screen legend Marlene Dietrich, his widow June told Associated Press. The funeral and the memorial service will take place on Wednesday.
Helmut Newton`s remains will interred in Schoeneberg district, in west Berlin, just steps away from where Dietrich was laid to rest in 1992. Newton, known as the “King Of Kink”, one of the most famous and highly paid photographers of the world, died in a car accident in the age of 83 when he lost control of the car he was driving and crashed into a wall outside the exclusive Chateau Marmont hotel in Los Angeles, where he spent his winters.
A collection of more than 1,000 works by Helmut and June Newton will be put on display on Friday in a former art library near the main train station in western Berlin.