Bernd and Hilla Becher

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artist duo conceptual artist photographer

Bernd and Hilla Becher were a German artist duo renowned for their systematic, typological photographic documentation of industrial architecture such as water towers, blast furnaces, and mineheads.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Bernd Becher	8
Hilla Becher	7
Bernd and Hilla Becher canonical	3

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	artist duo ⓘ conceptual artist ⓘ photographer ⓘ
awardReceived	Golden Lion ⓘ Hasselblad Award ⓘ
basedIn	Düsseldorf ⓘ Germany ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Germany ⓘ
fieldOfWork	conceptual art ⓘ industrial archaeology ⓘ photography ⓘ
genre	architectural photography ⓘ documentary photography ⓘ industrial photography ⓘ
hasPart	Becher school ⓘ
influenced	Andreas Gursky ⓘ Axel Hütte ⓘ Candida Höfer ⓘ Thomas Ruff ⓘ Thomas Struth ⓘ
member	Bernd and Hilla Becher self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Bernd Becher Bernd and Hilla Becher self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Hilla Becher
movement	New Topographics ⓘ conceptual photography ⓘ
notableFor	black-and-white photographic grids ⓘ systematic documentation of industrial architecture ⓘ typological series of industrial buildings ⓘ
notableStudent	Andreas Gursky ⓘ Candida Höfer ⓘ Thomas Ruff ⓘ Thomas Struth ⓘ
notableWork	Blast Furnaces series ⓘ Cooling Towers series ⓘ Framework Houses series ⓘ Gas Tanks series ⓘ Grain Elevators series ⓘ Industrial Facades series ⓘ Typologies of Industrial Buildings ⓘ Water Towers series ⓘ
taughtAt	Kunstakademie Düsseldorf ⓘ
technique	black-and-white photography ⓘ large-format photography ⓘ serial photography ⓘ typological grids ⓘ
workFocusedOn	blast furnaces ⓘ cooling towers ⓘ gas tanks ⓘ grain elevators ⓘ half-timbered houses ⓘ mineheads ⓘ water towers ⓘ