Bernd and Hilla Becher
Hilla Becher
Bernd Becher - Cooling towers Belgium, France, Luxembourg - image-1

Lot 360 D

Bernd and Hilla Becher Hilla Becher Bernd Becher - Cooling towers Belgium, France, Luxembourg

Auction 1188 - overview Cologne
04.12.2021, 11:00 - Modern and Contemporary Art - Day Sale
Estimate: 4.000 € - 5.000 €
Result: 20.000 € (incl. premium)

Bernd and Hilla Becher
Hilla Becher
Bernd Becher

Cooling towers Belgium, France, Luxembourg
1967-1971

9 gelatin silver prints. Each 6.6 x 5.1 cm (card 23.5 x 18.9 cm). Flush-mounted together to card, titled by Hilla Becher in pencil, photographers' copyright stamp as well as annotated in an unknown hand in pencil on the reverse of the mount.

We would like to thank Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, for helpful information.

Literature

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (ed.), Bernd und Hilla Becher. Typologien industrieller Bauten, exhib.cat. K21, Dusseldorf i.a., Munich 2003, plate 20 and 30 with ill.; Bernd and Hilla Becher, Kühltürme, Munich 2005, plate 144, 145 and 150