Axel Hütte - Axel Hütte - 1989

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RARE CATALOGUE by Axel Hütte, born 1951, one of the most famous students of the legendary first "Becher class" (from 1973 to 1981 at "Academy of Art, Düsseldorf") and famous for fantastic photobooks and artist books like "London" (Martin Par, The photobook, vol 2, page 247).

Published on the occasion of Axel Hütte's exhibition at "Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf" from 10th of june till 16th of july 1989.

Axel Hütte studied together with Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Thomas Ruff and Thomas Struth.

Axel Hütte is a German photographer best known for his mysterious images of landscapes and cities like London and Paris. His carefully constructed, geometric compositions, as well as his use of long exposure times, crystallize Hütte’s landscapes, imbuing them with a timeless quality. In my landscape work I am working with the emptiness, avoiding any signs of civilization or narrative indication, so in (the) best case you are lost in time and space,” he explained. The artist’s meticulous approach to photography is influenced by his time studying under Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf during the late 1970s. His photographs are held in the collections of the Folkwang Museum in Essen, the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, and the Museo Jumex in Mexico City, among others.

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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Förderungsstiftung, Berlin. In cooperation with the "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes und der Städtischen Kunsthalle Düsseldorf". 1989. First edition, first printing.

Softcover (as issued). 210 x 295 mm. 40 pages. Photos: Axel Hütte. Graphic design: Helmut Lortz. Layout: Margarete Fidel. Edited by Klaus Heinrich Kohrs. Printing: Moeker-Merkur, Cologne. Text in German.

Condition:
Book inside excellent, fresh and flawless; clean with no marks and with no foxing. Outside fresh, but little trace of use; light rubbing at the spine, neat defect at the bottom right corner of the front. Overall fine condition.

Great photobook by one of the most famous modern German photographers - in great condition.
Published on the occasion of the same-named exhibition ("Axel Hütte - fecit") at "Museum Kurhaus Kleve" in 2000.

Bernhard "Bernd" Becher (1931-2007), and Hilla Becher, born Wobeser (1934-2015), were German conceptual artists and photographers working as a collaborative duo. They are best known for their extensive series of photographic images, or typologies, of industrial buildings and structures, often organised in grids. As the founders of what has come to be known as the 'Becher school' or the "Düsseldorf School of Photography", they influenced generations of documentary photographers and artists in Germany and abroad. They were awarded the Erasmus Prize and the Hasselblad Award.

The Düsseldorf School of Photography refers to a group of photographers who studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the mid 1970s under the influential photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher.
Known for their rigorous devotion to the 1920s German tradition of Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity), the Bechers’ photographs were clear, black and white pictures of industrial archetypes (pitheads, water towers, coal bunkers).
Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, Thomas Ruff and Thomas Struth modified the approach of their teachers by applying new technical possibilities and a personal and contemporary vision, while retaining the documentary method their tutors propounded.