A photo taken at Realp, a village located at the bottom of the road over the Furka Pass. Hütte took several photos there when he visited an exhibition by a Swiss gallerist and decided to drive up the Furka Pass. Driving up into the mountains, the landscape changed into a mystery that Hütte tried to capture in his photographs.
C print on Kodak paper. 1997. Hand signed and numbered verso, 24/100. Dimensions image approx 22*29 cm. Professionally framed, perfect condition, dimensions frame ca 41,5*49 cm.
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Biography
Axel Hütte (1951)
The German photographer studied photography at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1973 to 1981 under Bernd Becher, among others. Together with his wife Hilla Becher, Becher formed a duo best known for their photographs of industrial buildings. They are the founders of the Becher/Düsseldorfer School of Photography. A group of photographers known for their penchant for black-and-white photographs of industrial buildings. The photographers focused on methodical documentation of industrial structures, often with a detached and objective approach. They had a great influence on documentary photography.
Hütte makes documentary photographs and, starting in the late 1990s, also landscapes and cityscapes. In his photographs, he tries to convey emotions, using technique and the material used (for example, depicting baroque architecture on silver plates) to reinforce the emotions. With the choice of technique, cropping of the photographs and also the material, he also tries to stimulate the imagination of the viewer. With the concept of landscape, it is nice to remember that photographs play with the difference between nature and landscape, with nature denoting the physical world that surrounds us, and landscape being nature as it reveals itself to the viewer(https://www.deutscheboersephotographyfoundation.org).
Information and quotes from:
https://akinci.nl/artists/axel-hutte/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel_H%C3%BCtte
https://www.deutscheboersephotographyfoundation.org/en/collect/artists/axel-huette.php
