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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1993.209.4
People
Bernd and Hilla Becher, German (active 1959 - 2007)
Bernd Becher, German (Siegen, Germany 1931 - 2007 Rostock, Germany)
Hilla Becher, German (Potsdam, Germany 1934 - 2015 Düsseldorf, Germany)
Title
Water Tower, Recklinghausen, Ruhr District, from the portfolio "Industrial Buildings"
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Industrial Buildings
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1975
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/219606

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gelatin silver printed mounted to paperboard
Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet: 30.4 x 40 cm (11 15/16 x 15 3/4 in.)
mount: 40.5 x 50 cm (15 15/16 x 19 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: on verso in graphite at l.c.: Berhard Becher, Hilla Becher
  • stamp: on verso at l.c., black ink, German: Hilla u. Bernd Becher INDUSTRIEBAUTEN
    Nr. 29/50 ['29' by hand in graphite]
    © by Schirmer/Mosel, München und den Autoren 1975

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Arend and Brigitte Oetker
Copyright
© Estate Bernd & Hilla Becher, represented by Max Becher, 2020
Accession Year
1993
Object Number
1993.209.4
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
photographs in unprinted box

Exhibition History

  • A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions from the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Central and Northern Art and Design from 1880 to the Present, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 04/19/2000 - 07/09/2000

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