SIGNED; Laurenz Berges - 4100 Duisburg (VINTAGE POSTER + SIGNATURE) - 2020

VERY BEAUTIFUL POSTER of the VERY SOUGHT-AFTER and QUICKLY SOLD-OUT SAME-NAMED BOOK ("4100 Duisburg") which i am offering also in this auction -
by the great and still underrated German photographer Laurenz Berges, one of Bernd and Hilla Becher's last master students and from 1988 to 1989 assistant of Evelyn Hofer.

Laurenz Berges is a German photographer, born 1966, belongs to the younger generation of (Bernd and Becher) Becher students at the "Kunstakademie Düsseldorf" who helped to establish the enormous significance of photography in contemporary art.

Signed by Laurenz Berges in the year of the publication = VINTAGE SIGNATURE.
I GUARANTEE THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE SIGNATURE AND THE FACT THAT THIS IS A VINTAGE SIGNATURE.

FRESH AND FLAWLESS - new condition.
COLLECTOR'S ITEM.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Laurenz Berges - 4100 Duisburg. Das letzte Jahrhundert" at "Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop" in 2020.

Laurenz Berges graduated from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf as Master Student under Bernd Becher in 1996. Berges' work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Laurenz Berges' photographic work focuses primarily on transience. Between 1991 and 1995, Laurenz Berges photographed the interiors of East German barracks that had been abandoned by the Red Army after the collapse of the Soviet Union. In his book Etzweile, Berges documented Etzweiler, the district of Elsdorf that had to make way for open-pit lignite mining. For years, the artist also photographed wastelands in the de-industrialized city of Duisburg. Berges finds his subjects in the urban gray areas: It is details from abandoned apartments, vacated houses, and overgrown gardens that interest him and that he makes the subject of a poetic, yet strictly documentary pictorial composition. In view of these photographs from the no-man's land between use and decay, recent past and foreseeable future, one could almost speak of the photographic equivalent of Arte Povera.

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Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop. 2020. First printing.

Poster's size: 590 x 840 mm.

Wonderful poster by Laurenz Berges in perfect condition - signed by the artist.

Bernhard "Bernd" Becher (1931-2007) and Hilla Becher, born Wobeser (1934-2015), were German conceptual artists and photographers working as a collaborative duo. They are best known for their extensive series of photographic images, or typologies, of industrial buildings and structures, often organised in grids. As the founders of what has come to be known as the 'Becher school' or the "Düsseldorf School of Photography", they influenced generations of documentary photographers and artists in Germany and abroad. They were awarded the Erasmus Prize and the Hasselblad Award.

The Düsseldorf School of Photography refers to a group of photographers who studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the mid 1970s under the influential photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher.
Known for their rigorous devotion to the 1920s German tradition of Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity), the Bechers’ photographs were clear, black and white pictures of industrial archetypes (pitheads, water towers, coal bunkers).
Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, Thomas Ruff and Thomas Struth modified the approach of their teachers by applying new technical possibilities and a personal and contemporary vision, while retaining the documentary method their tutors propounded.