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Thomas Struth
Museo del Prado 5
- Estimate
- £100,000 - 150,000‡♠
£125,000
Lot Details
chromogenic print
signed, titled, numbered, inscribed and dated 'Museo del Prado 5 Madrid 2005 3/10 Thomas Struth Print: 2006' on the reverse
image 157.5 x 199.7 cm (62 x 78 5/8 in.)
sheet 163.8 x 206 cm (64 1/2 x 81 1/8 in.)
sheet 163.8 x 206 cm (64 1/2 x 81 1/8 in.)
Conceived in 2005 and printed in 2006, this work is number 3 from an edition of 10.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
'My intention had been to capture, by means of photography, the way people react on the paintings, their historical entrenchment in museums, and the reception of the work in the rather awe-inspiring atmosphere of institutionalised museums... [The] idea was born to show a journey through time by establishing a connection between the top of the paintings, the artists who had made their artistic statements in them, the visitors looking at them and me whose photographs are again exhibited in the galleries.' Thomas Struth
Provenance
Exhibited
Thomas Struth
Thomas Struth is a German photographer best known for his large-scale, classically composed photos of museum, cityscapes, and family portraits. Struth is a prominent member of the Düsseldorf School of Photography, the group of artists who studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the mid-1970s under influential photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher. Struth’s highly centralized, balanced photos incorporate cutting-edge photographic techniques and the tenets of classical composition to develop the documentarian aims of the Bechers.
Struth’s work has been widely celebrated by the international art community. He represented Germany at the 44th Venice Biennale in 1990 and has been the subject of major retrospectives including those at the Dallas Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Haus der Kunst, Munich. He lives and works in Berlin and New York.
Browse ArtistStruth’s work has been widely celebrated by the international art community. He represented Germany at the 44th Venice Biennale in 1990 and has been the subject of major retrospectives including those at the Dallas Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Haus der Kunst, Munich. He lives and works in Berlin and New York.