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A black and white photolithograph of an industrial building and pipes.

The black and white photolithograph shows a corner of an industrial building. On the left a section of a brick building with tall, multi-paned windows on two levels, a square structure with stacked square openings in the corner where the tall building meets a shorter brick building at a ninety degree angle. The shorter building has square multi-paned windows on three levels. A large pipe rises from the ground in front of the shorter building, crosses the façade and turns across the larger building at a ninety-degree angle. Three pipes rise from the large pipe on the right, close to the center and on the left.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1992.377
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
Coal Mine, Emil Emscher, Essen Ruhr District, from the portfolio "Walls and Conduits"
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Walls and Conduits
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1976 (printed 1991)
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/221062

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Duotone offset photolithograph printed on coated white card
Technique
Duotone offset photolithograph
Dimensions
image: 40.1 x 30.4 cm (15 13/16 x 11 15/16 in.)
sheet: 63 x 50 cm (24 13/16 x 19 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: on verso in graphite at l.c.: Hilla Becher / Bernhard Becher
  • inscription: on verso, at l.l., graphite, in artist's hand: IV
  • inscription: on verso, at l.r., graphite, in artist's hand: 29/100

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Francis H. Burr Memorial Fund
Copyright
© Estate Bernd & Hilla Becher, represented by Max Becher, 2020
Accession Year
1992
Object Number
1992.377
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 1100 60’s Experiment, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/23/2015 - 10/07/2015

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