Bernd and Hilla Becher: Water tower, Toledo, Ohio (1978), 1989, offset lithograph. printed on high quality “Satimatt” paper (250g/sqm) at Arjomari, Paris, overall size 38 x 28,5 cm, image size: 32 x 22 cm, from the series Schirmer Mosel, 15 years, jubilee folder, unsigned, certified in print upper right and lower centre (recto). Best condition. Price € 195.- Order here!
About Bernd and Hilla Becher
Bernd Becher (* 1931 – † 2007) und Hilla Becher (* 1934 – 2015) lifetime project of documenting the industrial landscape of our time secures their position in the canon of postwar photographers. Their work at once conceptual art, typological study, and topological documentation has influenced German photographers of a younger generation, including Thomas Struth, Thomas Demand, Candida Höfer, Thomas Ruff, and Andreas Gursky. Their work can be linked to the Neue Sachlichkeit movement of the 1920s and to such masters of German photography as Karl Blossfeldt, August Sander, and Albert Renger-Patzsch. Their photographs of industrial structures, taken over the course of forty years, are the most important body of work in independent objective photography. The functionalist and aesthetic dimensions of the Bechers’ subject matter, their typologizing which she is reminiscent of nineteenth-century naturalists’ classificatory schemes, and the anonymous industrial building style favored by German architects, have influence a whole generation. The Becher’s show that industrial building types impose themselves on our consciousness as the cathedral did on that of the Middle Ages, and that the Bechers’ photographs which seem at first glance only to record a vanishing landscape serve to examine this shaping of our perceptions. Their work provides us with a rare opportunity to see how we see.
More Artwork by Bernd and Hilla Becher
Bernd and Hilla Becher: ‘Wassertürme (Water Towers)’, 2007, offset print 250 g/m², from the series Typologies, size: 70 x 70 cm (27 ½ x 27 1/2″). Publisher: Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Düsseldorf / Kunstverlag Achenbach + Costa, Düsseldorf. Price € 380,- Order here !
Bernd and Hilla Becher: ‘Zwei Fördertürme 1967 / 2004’, 2 pigment prints on photo rag paper, 75 x 60,5 cm (29½ x 23¾ in.) ea., signed, numbered, edition of 60. SOLD
Bernd and Hilla Becher: ‘Wassertürme (Water Towers)’, 2007, Image IV from Typologies, Digital pigment print (Ditone) on photo paper, size: 90 x 112 cm (35½ x 44″). Edition of 40, signed “B. + H. Becher” by Hilla Becher and numbered on verso. Price upon request
Bernd und Hilla Becher: ‘Walls and Conduits’, 1991, Lithograph, signed, numbered, edition of 100, size: 63 x 50 cm. SOLD.
Bernd und Hilla Becher: ‘Wasserturm Trier-Ehrang’, 1982 / 2009, silver gelatine print, signed. numbered, edition of 100, size: 18.5 x 24 cm, plus free book Bernd & Hilla Becher: Grundformen/Formes élémentaires / Basc Forms. Price upon request
Bernd and Hilla Becher: Four Silos, Offset print on Chromolux, handsigned, lim. edition of 100, 80 x 65 cm / Vier Silos, Farboffset auf Chromolux, limitiert, handsigniert by Bernd Becher, lim. Auflage 100 Ex. Size: 80 x 65 cm. Price upon request
Bernd and Hilla Becher: ‘Coal Mine, Pipe, Detail’, 1990-1991, Lithograph, signed, numbered en verso, edition of 75, size: 77.2 × 58.1 cm – 30 3/8 × 22 7/8 in. Price upon request
Bernd and Hilla Becher: ‘Gasbehälter (Gas Tanks)’, 2009, Image VII from Typologies, Digital pigment print (Ditone) on photo paper, size: 90 x 112 cm (35½ x 44″). Edition of 40, signed “B. + H. Becher” on label verso by H. Becher, numbered. Price upon request
Bernd und Hilla Becher: ‘Aufbereitungsanlagen (Preparation Plants)’, 2009, Image VI from Typologies, Digital pigment print (Ditone) on photo paper, size: 90 x 110 cm (35½ x 43¼”). Edition of 40, signed “B. + H. Becher” on verso by H. Becher, numbered. Price upon request
Bernd and Hilla Becher: ‘Kies- und Schotterwerke (Gravel Plants)’, 2006, Image III from Typologies Digital pigment print (Ditone) on photo paper, size: 90 x 112 cm (35½ x 44″). Edition of 40, signed and numbered on verso. Price upon request
Bernd and Hilla Becher, Coal Storage Tower, (Grube Eschweiler Reserve), Four views on one sheet. Offset lithograph on light cardboard, handsigned, 55 x 41cm (60 x 45cm). Signed and numbered. Lim. edition of 100 copies. SOLD
Bernd and Hilla Becher: Silo Kühltürme (Silo, Cooling Towers), 1971, Offsetprint, size: 54,5 x 60 cm, handsigned with pencil and dated, Edition Griffelkunst, Hamburg (185 C1), elaborately framed for museum use (white wooden strip, passepartout, UV protection glass). SOLD.
Bernd and Hilla Becher: Anonyme Skulpturen (Anonymous sculptures), 1973, Limited edition of 80, size: 86 x 61,5 cm, Letterpress printing on art cardboard, signed and numbered.
Bernd and Hilla Becher Hochöfen (Blast Furnace), 1971, lithograph, edition of 300, handsigned, numbered, elaborately framed for museum use (white wooden strip, passepartout, UV protection glass). SOLD.
Bernd and Hilla Becher: ‘Monceau Fontaine Nr. 18, Charleroi, Belgium’, 1975, original black and white gelatin silver print (7 1/8 x 9 3/4), (print 2002), numbered and signed in pencil on verso by Bernd Becher and Hilla Becher, print edition 100, including the photo book ‘Industrielandschaften’ by Schirmer and Mosel, Munich, first edition, first printing, print and slipcase mint, new, unread. Limited slipcased edition of 100 hand-numbered copies, book in hardcover with dust jacket. 272 pages, size: 315 x 255 mm (9 3/4 x 12 inches) with 180 duotone plates. Photographs by Bernd and Hilla Becher. German Text. SOLD
Bernd and Hilla Becher: “Wasserturm Mannheim“, 1976, Lithograph, signed, dated, numbered en verso, titled on front, picture size: 42,6 x 31,5 cm, total size: 51,8 x 39,9 cm, Publisher: Griffelkunst-Vereinigung, Hamburg 1976. SOLD.
Bernd und Hilla Becher: “Wasserturm Viviers, Belgien“ 1976, original photo on chromolux photocarton, signed and dated en verso, titled on front : Wasserturm Verviers Belgien, picture size: 43 x 32,2 cm, total size: 51,8 x 40 cm. SOLD.
Bernd und Hilla Becher: ‘Sechs Wassertürme’, 1976, Set of 6 offset lithographs, each print size: 52 x 40 cm / (20½ x 15¾”), each signed en verso. Artist´s proof in addition to an edition of 385. SOLD.
Bernd and Hilla Becher: ‘Framework Houses’, 1993, duotone offset print, Siegener Industriegebiet, (Industrial Area, Siegen), signed, numbered en verso, edition of 100, size: 194 x 208 cm. SOLD.
Bernd & Hilla Becher: “Fachwerkhäuser (Framework Houses)“, 1993/2003, offset print, industrial zone Siegen, Germany, 1993, Blattformat: 70 x 70 cm. (27 ½ x 27 1/2″). SOLD.
Bernd und Hilla Becher: ‘Fachwerkhäuser (Framework Houses)’, 1993, Siegener Industriegebiet, (Industrial Area, Siegen), Portfolio of 12 duotone offset prints, each print size: 63 x 50 cm, (24¾ x 19¾ in.), each signed and numbered. Edition of 50. SOLD.