[Mountain Elm Leaf]
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.In these studies of tree leaves, Hilla Becher is operating in a long tradition of natural realism that connects her work to that of many earlier German artists, including the photographs of Karl Blossfeldt and the printed botanical and zoological studies of Ernst Haeckel (see display case). What was important to Blossfeldt, Haeckel, and the Bechers was not simple exactitude but a particular type of graphic description and presentation that could reveal the unique, often quirky, and at times humorous structure of any form.
Artwork Details
- Title: [Mountain Elm Leaf]
- Artist: Hilla Becher (German, 1934–2015)
- Date: 1965
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: 9 5/16 × 6 15/16 in. (23.7 × 17.7 cm)
Frame: 19 11/16 × 15 3/4 in. (50 × 40 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