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Bernd and Hilla Becher
Sechs Wassertürme
- Estimate
- $8,000 - 12,000
$20,320
Lot Details
Six offset lithographs, printed later.
1976
Each approximately 16 x 12 1/2 in. (40.6 x 31.8 cm)
Each signed and dated in pencil on the verso; printed title in the lower margin.
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Catalogue Essay
The photographs included in this lot are as follows:
Wassserturm Zeche Concordia Oberhausen
Wasserturm Verviers Belgien
Wasserturm Kirkhamgate Bei Leeds England
Wasserturm Greencastle Pennsylvania USA
Waserturm Dusburg-Meiderich
Wasserturm Verschiebebanhof Mannheim
Wassserturm Zeche Concordia Oberhausen
Wasserturm Verviers Belgien
Wasserturm Kirkhamgate Bei Leeds England
Wasserturm Greencastle Pennsylvania USA
Waserturm Dusburg-Meiderich
Wasserturm Verschiebebanhof Mannheim
Literature
Bernd and Hilla Becher
GermanHusband and wife Bernd and Hilla Becher began photographing buildings and relics of the Industrial Revolution, such as coal mines and cooling towers, in 1959. Like objective scientists removing a specimen from the field, the Bechers framed their subject in a manner that isolated it from its environment. Often, these stark, beautifully detailed prints were then displayed in grid-like structures, forming stunning 'Typologies'.By the time Bernd Becher became a professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1976 (policy would not allow Hilla to be a simultaneous appointment), the Bechers' photographs, with their seemingly neutral point of view and serial display, were already being applauded by the international art world as important works of Minimal and Conceptual Art.
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