Bernd and Hilla Becher  (German) 

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Bernd and Hilla Becher Biography
1931   Bernd Becher born in Siegen District, Germany
1934   Hilla Becher born in Berlin, Germany
1953 - 1956   Bernd Becher studied lithography and painting at the Staatliche Akademie der Blidenden Künste, Stuttgart, Germany
1959   The two artists collaborated for the first time
1957 - 1961   Bernd Becher studied typography at the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
1961   The two artists got married
1963   Had their first gallery show in Siegen at the Galerie Ruth Nohl
1991   Recipient, the Leone d’Oro award for sculpture at the Venic e Biennale
2002   Recipient, the Erasmus Prize
2007   Bernd Becher died in Rostock, Germany on June 26th
Selected Exhibitions
2010   Der Westen leuchtet, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
2009   1968. Die große Unschuld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany (group)
2009   Art of Two Germanys / Cold War Cultures 1945-1989, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin/Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuremberg, Germany (group)
2008 - 2009   Made in Munich, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
2008   Die Hande der Kunst, MARTa Herford, Herford
2008   Second Thoughts, The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hundson, NY
2007   20 ans du Musee d'Art Moderne - L'art apres 1960 dans les collections, Musee d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne
2006   Dusseldorf School of Photography and Contemporary Western Masters, Hannart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, SAR
2004   'Early works', Andre Simoens Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
2002   The Russian Avant-Garde Book 1910-1934, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2002   Augenblick – Foto/Kunst in der Sammlung Essl, Sammlung Ess, Klosterneuburg
2002   Positionen der Fotografie, Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin
2002   documenta 11, Kassel
2001   Bernd & Hilla Becher, Gallery Zwirner & Wirth, New York (solo)
1999   Photographische Sammlung – SK Stiftung Kultur, Köln (solo)
1994   Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster (solo)
1993   Fraenkel Gallery San Francisco (solo)
1991   Galerie Ascan Crone, Hamburg (solo)
1990   Sonnabend Gallery, New York (solo)
1990   Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne (solo)
1990   Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (solo)
1990   DIA Art Foundation NY (solo)
1990   Typologies, XLIV Venice Biennale, Kolnischer Kunstverein, etc. Italy; Germany; Cambridge, MA; Cleveland, OH (solo)
Literature
  Wassertürme, Schirmer/Mosel, München 1988
  Klaus Bussmann: Bernd & Hilla Becher – Typologien - Typologies, Schirmer/Mosel, München 1990
  Pennsylvania Coal Mine Tipples, Schirmer/Mosel, München 1991
  Häuser und Hallen, Hrsg. Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt 1992
  Grundformen, Schirmer/Mosel, München 1993
  Fabrikhallen, Schirmer/Mosel, München 1994
  Zeche Hannibal, Schirmer/Mosel, München 1995
  August Sander, Karl Blossfeldt, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Bernd und Hilla Becher – Vergleichende Konzeptionen, Hrsg. Photographische Sammlung, Köln 1997
  Thierry de Duve: Basic Forms, Schirmer/Mosel, München 1999
  Fachwerkhäuser, Hrsg. Martina Doppe, Museum für Kunst der Gegenwart, Siegen 2001
  Industrielandschaften, Schirmer/Mosel, München 2002
  Gasbehälter, Schirmer/Mosel, München 1993/2002
  Hochöfen, Schirmer/Mosel, München 1990/2002