Freudenberg, Germany

1962

Not on view

Returned to lender

This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.

The Bechers included the photographs on this wall in their 1977 publication Framework Houses of the Siegen Industrial Region. They appear in a special section at the end of the book titled “Groups of Houses.” The early landscape-format photographs demonstrate how individual framework houses are members of a large community of buildings displaying variations of a single architectural style. The Bechers generally did not exhibit these and other similar wide-field views, which show natural topography and surrounding context, until 2003, near the end of their fifty years of working together.

Artwork Details

Overview

Provenance

Title: Freudenberg, Germany
Artist: Bernd and Hilla Becher (German, active 1959–2007)
Date: 1962
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: 6 1/8 × 9 5/16 in. (15.6 × 23.6 cm)
Frame: 22 1/4 × 18 5/16 × 1 1/8 in. (56.5 × 46.5 × 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.
Curatorial Department: Photographs