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AXEL HÜTTE (B. 1951)
Lot 102

AXEL HÜTTE (B. 1951)

Island Fog, 2002

Closed15 May 2013

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GBP 17,500

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AXEL HÜTTE (B. 1951)
Island Fog, 2002
cibachrome print
signed, titled, dated and numbered '1/4' in ink (backing board, verso)
image 44½ x 56½in. (113 x 143.5cm.)
sheet 58 x 70in. (147.3 x 117.8cm.)
This print is number 1 from the edition of 4.

Waddington Custot Galleries, London;
Private collection, Switzerland.

Specialist note

Between 1973 and 1981 Axel Hütte studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he attended Bernd Becher's fine art course in photography. In the same year he joined Andreas Gursky and Thomas Ruff in a rented studio space in a disused power station. Today, he belongs to a school of photography emblematic of an entire generation.
Hütte's painterly quality, invites the viewer into an objective space which concerns itself first with detail, taking the viewer very quickly into the realm of the sublime.