A contemplative, concentrated Joseph Beuys pays tribute to a figure by the sculptor Auguste Rodin. This photo, taken in 1968, is one of the impressive portraits by the photographer Angelika Platen, who has captured many artists on film since the late 1960s. Behind Beuys looms the head and arm of the figure of Pierre de Wiessant, sculpted by Rodin in 1885, one of the courageous citizens of Calais, in whose honor the sculptor created a multi-figure monument. The real encounter in the Hamburger Kunsthalle becomes an imaginary dialog between the elder and the younger.