Bernd and Hilla Becher
'Hainerhütte, Siegen' (Blast Furnace)
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October 25, 04:33 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
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Bernd and Hilla Becher
1931-2007 and 1934-2015
'Hainerhütte, Siegen' (Blast Furnace)
gelatin silver print, ferrotyped, signed, titled, dated '1963,' and extensively annotated in pencil on the reverse, framed, 1961
image: 15¾ by 11⅞ in. (40 by 30.2 cm.)
frame: 25 by 21 in. (63.5 by 53.3 cm.)
Kicken Gallery, Berlin, 2004
San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, Looking Back: Ten Years of Pier 24 Photography, Pier 24 Photography, July 2019 – March 2022
Bernd & Hilla Becher: Blast Furnaces (Cambridge, 1991), no. 121
Bernd and Hilla Becher: Festscrift; Erasmuspreis 2002 (Munich, 2002), p. 132
Susanne Lange, Bernd and Hilla Becher: Life and Work (Munich, 2010), pl. 7
Jeff L. Rosenheim, Bernd & Hilla Becher (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2022), p. 228
There is an extensive annotation by Bernd Becher in German on the reverse, here translated: 'The boy Bernd Becher, who grew up in an Eisenhütten district of Siegenland, had this factory in mind throughout his youth; he knew it from his parents' house. This may be the reason for his choice of subject when he became a painter and graphic artist and later decided to capture this industrial world with the more suitable means - the camera - instead of with brush or pencil. This is the root of his life's work and his successes. (They are far larger in the US than here) -phot. Becher'
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