Axel Hütte - Photographs London Tuesday, May 7, 2013 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad

  • Literature

    Axel Hütte: North South, Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 2006, p. 26
    S. Gronert, The Düsseldorf School of Photography, London: Thames & Hudson, 2009, pp. 174-175

  • Catalogue Essay

    Axel Hütte is the covert Romantic and “landscape painter” among today’s premier-league photographers known as the Düsseldorf School. As an explorer would, Hütte traveled to Alaska, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Australia, South Africa, Brazil, Germany, America, Kauai and Maui in the past eight years in search for the perfect picture. Armed with patience and a traditional large-format camera, he has waited until weather, season, light and allover conditions were just right at the same time. All these landscapes have a distant and unreal quality. Be it the glaciers with their magical blue gleam or the lush green opulence of sub-tropical jungles, all images are seductively beautiful and equally complicated.

    (Press release for the exhibition Places, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, 13 August - 13 October 2006)

86

Olympic Peninsula I - Washington, USA

2004
Chromogenic print, flush-mounted.
Overall 186.5 x 236 cm (73 3/8 x 92 7/8 in)
Signed, titled, dated and numbered 3/4 in ink on the reverse of the backing board.

Estimate
£10,000 - 15,000 ‡♠

Sold for £12,500

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Photographs

London 8 May 2013 4pm