Front view
Inv. No.S-0838
ArtistsBernd Becherborn 1931 in Siegen, Germanydied 2007 in Rostock, Germany
Hilla Becherborn 1934 in Potsdam, Germanydied 2015 in Dusseldorf, Germany
Title

"Wasserturm (Kugel) mit Café Kröpcke"


Hochofenwerk Ilsede

Year1984
Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions40 x 30 cm
Signature

copyright stamp and titled by unknown

Comment

Simultaneously with the rise of scientists' interest in industrial buildings (industrial archaeology) in the 1950s, Bernd and Hilla Becher began in 1957 to systematically document industrial architecture that had been left to decay in large-scale series.
(Fritz Simak)

S-0838, "Wasserturm (Kugel) mit Café Kröpcke"
Bernd Becher & Hilla Becher, "Wasserturm (Kugel) mit Café Kröpcke", 1984
S-0838, Front view
© Estate Bernd & Hilla Becher, represented by Max Becher
S-0838, Back view
Bernd Becher & Hilla Becher, "Wasserturm (Kugel) mit Café Kröpcke", 1984
S-0838, Back view