Gravel Plant, Günzburg, Germany
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Bernd and Hilla Becher completed a thorough documentation of the many gravel plants in and near Günzburg, a small city on the Danube River in Bavaria. This oddly shaped yet functional building was used as a stone breaker to produce gravel, the still-lucrative industrial material required for making roads and high-quality concrete. The asymmetrical facade delights the eye, recalling the Bechers’ frequently stated agenda: “We were fascinated above all by the shape of technical architecture, and hardly by its history.”
Artwork Details
- Title: Gravel Plant, Günzburg, Germany
- Artist: Bernd and Hilla Becher (German, active 1959–2007)
- Date: 1989
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: 24 3/16 × 19 3/16 in. (61.4 × 48.7 cm)
Frame: 35 7/8 × 29 5/8 × 1 1/8 in. (91.2 × 75.2 × 2.8 cm) - Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Estate Bernd & Hilla Becher, represented by Max Becher, courtesy Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur—Bernd & Hilla Becher Archive, Cologne.
- Rights and Reproduction: © Estate Bernd & Hilla Becher, represented by Max Becher, courtesy Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur—Bernd & Hilla Becher Archive, Cologne.
- Curatorial Department: Photographs