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Bernhard "Bernd" Becher (German:; 20 August 1931 – 22 June 2007), and Hilla Becher, née Wobeser (2 September 1934 – 10 October 2015), were German conceptual artists and photographers working as a collaborative duo.
Tate. © Estate of Bernd Becher & Hilla Becher. Who are they? Hilla Becher was a German artist born in 1931 in Siegen, Germany. She was one half of a photography duo with her husband Bernd Becher. For forty years, they photographed disappearing industrial architecture around Europe and North America.
The renowned German artists Bernd and Hilla Becher (1931–2007; 1934–2015) changed the course of late twentieth-century photography. Working as a rare artist couple, they focused on a single subject: the disappearing industrial architecture of Western Europe and North America that fueled the modern era.
May 8, 2024 · Bernd Becher and Hilla Becher were German photographers known for their straightforward black-and-white images of types of industrial buildings. For nearly five decades, the couple systematically photographed individual industrial structures—water towers, blast furnaces, grain elevators, framework.
Bernhard " Bernd " Becher ( German: [ˈbɛçɐ]; 20 August 1931 – 22 June 2007), and Hilla Becher, née Wobeser (2 September 1934 – 10 October 2015), were German conceptual artists and photographers working as a collaborative duo.
Jul 3, 2018 · Bernd and Hilla Becher first began their still-ongoing project of systematically photographing industrial structures – water towers, blast furnaces, gas tanks, mine heads, grain elevators and the like – in the late 1950s. 1 The seemingly objective and scientific character of their project was in part a polemical return to the ‘straight’ aestheti...
Nov 8, 2022 · Bernd and Hilla Becher, a husband-and-wife team who spent five decades making rigorous and reverential pictures of industrial architecture, were among the most influential photographers of...
In 1957, Hilla Wobeser met Bernhard Becher, known as Bernd at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where the two studied. They began a collaboration photographing the Siegerland region where Bernd was raised, and two years later, the couple got married in 1961.
For more than five decades, Bernd (1931–2007) and Hilla (1934–2015) Becher collaborated on photographs of industrial architecture in Germany, France, Belgium, Holland, Great Britain, and the United States.
Nov 6, 2022 · Exhibition Dates: July 15– November 6, 2022. Exhibition Location: The Met Fifth Avenue, 691–693, and 851–852. Bernd and Hilla Becher (1931–2007; 1934–2015) are widely considered the most influential German photographers of the postwar period.
