
Bernd And Hilla Becher
'blast Furnace Plant Duisburg-bruckhausen, Ruhr, G (view From Outside)'
A stark, black-and-white photographic study of the massive industrial blast furnace complex at Duisburg-Bruckhausen in Germany's Ruhr region, captured with the Bechers' characteristically objective and systematic approach. The image presents the sprawling steel and iron structures with clinical precision, stripping away any romantic or emotional interpretation to reveal the raw geometric complexity of heavy industrial architecture. True to the Bechers' typological methodology, the photograph serves as both a documentary record and a formal study of industrial form, framing the furnace plant as a kind of unintentional monument to twentieth-century manufacturing.
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- Auction House · Sotheby's
🔨 Auction Lot
Contemporary Photographs
September 27, 2019
Estimate: $12,000 – $18,000
Lot 9
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