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XII: Oststrasse 16, Freudenberg, 1971, from the portfolio Fachwerkhäuser, Siegener Industriegebiet (Timbered Houses, Siegen Industrial Area)


Bernd Becher; Hilla Becher, XII: Oststrasse 16, Freudenberg, 1971, from the portfolio Fachwerkhäuser, Siegener Industriegebiet (Timbered Houses, Siegen Industrial Area), 1993, duotone offset print, Museum Purchase: Funds provided by Dorothy Lemelson and Bonnie Serkin, © artist or other rights holder, 2006.16l

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Title

XII: Oststrasse 16, Freudenberg, 1971, from the portfolio Fachwerkhäuser, Siegener Industriegebiet (Timbered Houses, Siegen Industrial Area)

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original language: XII: Oststrasse 16, Freudenberg, 1971

portfolio title: Fachwerkhäuser, Siegen Industriegebiet

translated: Timbered Houses, Siegen Industrial Area

Artist

Hilla Becher (German, 1934-2015)

Bernd Becher (German, 1931-2007)

Date

1993

Medium

duotone offset print

Edition

8/50

Dimensions (H x W x D)

sheet: 24 3/4 in x 19 1/4 in

Collection Area

Photography; Modern and Contemporary Art

Category

Books, Portfolios, and Manuscripts

Photographs

Object Type

photograph

Credit Line

Museum Purchase: Funds provided by Dorothy Lemelson and Bonnie Serkin

Accession Number

2006.16l

Copyright

© artist or other rights holder

Terms

houses

photographs

portfolios

Description

Collaborative artists Bernd and Hilla Becher are renowned for their photographic typologies, or systematic classifications, of industrial architecture. Their purposely “objective” point of view was featured in the groundbreaking 1975 exhibition The New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape (which also included Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, and Joe Deal, whose work is also on view in this installation), and they influenced a new generation of contemporary photographers, in particular Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, and Candida Höfer, all of whom studied with Bernd at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

History
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2012 70 Years/70 Photographs Portland Art Museum

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