Thomas Struth - Contemporary Art Part II New York Friday, November 14, 2008 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Private collection, Brussels

  • Exhibited

    Hanover, Sprengel Museum, Thomas Struth Portraits, December 14, 1997 - February 22, 1998 (another example exhibited)

  • Literature

    T. Weski, Thomas Struth Portraits, Munich, 1997, p. 77 (illustrated)

  • Artist Biography

    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.

     
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The Yamato Family in Front of Their House, Yamaguchi

1996
C-print face mounted to Plexiglas in the artist's wooden frame.
60 x 71 1/2 in. (152.4 x 181.6 cm) overall.
Signed, titled and dated “Thomas Struth The Yamato Family in Front of Their House,Yamaguchi 1996” and numbered of ten on the reverse of the backing board.  This work is from an edition of ten.

Estimate
$20,000 - 30,000 

Sold for $22,500

Contemporary Art Part II

14 Nov 2008, 10am & 2pm
New York