Axel Hütte

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Alex Hütte
Born1951
Essen
NationalityGerman
EducationDüsseldorf School of Photography
Known forphotography
Movementlandscape, cityscape

Axel Hütte (born 1951) is a German photographer. He is considered one of main representatives of the Düsseldorf School of Photography.[1]

Biography[]

Hütte was born in the German city of Essen in 1951. He studied photography in Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1973 to 1981, attending Bernd Becher’s class.[2] He received a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service to study in London and in 1985 a scholarship to study at the German Study Center in the Palazzo Barbarigo della Terrazza in Venice. From 1986 to 1988 he was the recipient of a Karl Schmidt-Rottluff scholarship.

In 1993, Hütte received the Hermann Claasen Prize for Creative Photography. Since then, he has been working as a freelance photographer. He shares a studio with Andreas Gursky and Thomas Ruff.

Publications[]

  • As Dark As Light. . 2001. ISBN 978-388-814929-0.
  • Terra Incognita. Reina Sofia. 2004. ISBN 978-848-026217-0.
  • Axel Hütte speaks with Stephan Berg. La Fábrica Editorial and Fundación Telefónica. 2009. ISBN 978-849-249889-5.
  • Towards the Wood. Schirmer/Mosel Verlag. 2011. ISBN 978-382-960515-1.

Exhibitions[]

Solo[]

  • 1997: Theorea. Fotomuseum Winterthur.[3]
  • 1997: Fecit. .[4]
  • 2004: Terra Incognita. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia.[5]
  • 2011: Emerald Woods. Dirimart Gallery, Istanbul.[6]
  • 2013: Palacio Municipal de Exposiciones Kiosco Alfonso, A Coruña, Spain.
  • 2014: Fantasmi E Realtà. Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice.[7]
  • 2014: Paisaje Escindido. Museo San Telmo, San Sebastián, Spain.
  • 2015: Shadows of Lights. Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid.[8]
  • 2017: Imperial - Majestic - Magical. , Germany.
  • 2017: Night and Day. Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Germany.
  • 2019: Kosmos Tropical. Galerie Daniel Marzona, Berlin, Germany.

Group[]

Collections[]

Hütte's work is held in the following permanent public collections:[12]

References[]

  1. ^ "Axel Hütte".
  2. ^ "Why Germany's best photographers all studied with Bernd and Hilla Becher". dw.com.
  3. ^ "Axel Hütte - Theorea". fotomuseum.ch.
  4. ^ "Axel Hütte - Fecit". museumkurhaus.de.
  5. ^ "Axel Hütte. Terra incognita - Lanzarote". museoreinasofia.es.
  6. ^ "Woodland reflections blur reality and illusion". hurriyetdailynews.com.
  7. ^ "Axel Hütte - Shadows of Lights". Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation.
  8. ^ "Axel Hütte - Shadows of Lights". undo.net.
  9. ^ "Britain through the lens of outsiders". The Financial Times. 2016-02-19.
  10. ^ "Review: Strange and Familiar: Britain as Revealed by International Photographers". The Mancunion. Archived from the original on 2017-07-08. Retrieved 2017-05-08.
  11. ^ "A class apart: a new show explores the radical approach of the Bechers and their students". Wallpaper. 2017-04-26.
  12. ^ "Axel Hütte | artnet".
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