
Typologie Wassertürme
A grid of black-and-white photographs documents industrial water towers from various regions of Europe and North America, presenting each structure with clinical precision and a neutral, overcast sky as backdrop. The Bechers' systematic, typological approach strips each tower of its individual context, allowing formal similarities and subtle variations in shape, volume, and construction to emerge across the series. The offset lithograph format reinforces the work's archival, almost scientific character, transforming functional industrial architecture into a meditation on form, repetition, and collective memory.
- Medium
- Offset lithograph, on wove paper, with full margins.
- Dimensions
- Signed
- Yes
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Editions & Works on Paper
February 7, 2026
Estimate: $1,000 – $2,000
Sold: $3,870
Lot 31
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