"PORAITS" is the VERY BEAUTIFUL FOURTH PUBLICATION by Bernhard Fuchs ("Autos"). Signed by Bernhard Fuchs. Signed books by this artist are scarce. I GUARANTEE THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE SIGNATURE. SCARCE and STRONGLY LIMITED BOOK. Bernhard Fuchs grew up in Helfenberg, Upper Austria and he studied from 1993 to 1997 at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, from 1994 under Bernd Becher. From 1997 to 1999 he completed a post-graduate study in a masterclass at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig under Timm Rautert. Fuchs lives and works in Düsseldorf. Bernhard Fuchs received the Austrian Art Award for Media Art in the field of Artistic Photography in 2017. Welcome to the "GERMAN PHOTOBOOKS" auction by Ecki Heuser (5Uhr30.com, Cologne) - with more than 100 fantastic lots. IF YOU WIN MORE THAN 1 OF MY BOOKS IN THIS AUCTION, YOU WILL PAY ONLY 1 X SHIPPING COSTS - WORLDWIDE. Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, 1996. First edition, first printing. Hardcover (as issued). 235 × 215 mm. 40 pages. 19 photos. Photos: Bernhard Fuchs. Layout: Sabine an Huef, Kerken. Concept: Bernhard Fuchs, Heinz Liesbrock. Text: Heinz Liesbrock. Text in German. Condition: Inside with no marks and with no foxing and with normal trace of use; pages smell like smoke. Outside yellowed. Overall very good condition. Great, scarce fourth photobook by Becher student Bernhard Fuchs - signed by the artist with personal words: "Vielen Dank. Bernhard Fuchs". Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Simone Nieweg/Bernhard Fuchs" at "Westfälischer Verein" in Münster in 1996 and in 1997. 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.