Axel Hut

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Axel Hütte (* 1951 in Essen ) is a German photographer . He is considered a representative of the Düsseldorf Photo School .

Life

Born in Essen in 1951, Axel Hütte studied from 1973 to 1981 in the photography class at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf with Bernd Becher . In 1982 Hütte received a DAAD scholarship for London , from December 1985 to January 1986 the scholarship for the German Study Center in the Palazzo Barbarigo della Terrazza in Venice and from 1986 to 1988 the Karl Schmidt-Rottluff scholarship . In 1993 Axel Hütte received the Hermann Claasen Prize for Creative Photography. Since then, Axel Hütte has been working as a freelance photographer with artistic aspirations and international renown and is now part of the photographic avant-garde of the present.

Axel Hütte lives and works in Düsseldorf .

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In addition to clearly documentary works, since the end of the 1990s he has also turned to subjects that appear more picturesque, such as B. in his photo book "fecit" (photos from Australian forests, among others). His architectural photographs, such as bridges, stairwells, corridors or subway stations, show seemingly banal things, sometimes only fragments, in a disciplined form without great sensual stimuli.

Axel Hütte reflects on the mimetic possibilities of photography. The question of his photographic work is not the exact depiction of reality by means of the camera, but the reflection of the relationship between image and imaginary image.

This is how he describes his work in the comprehensive exhibition in the Kunsthalle Krems: “ Imperial, Majestic and Magical refer to concrete and at the same time enigmatic visual worlds that appear familiar to us but appear strange in the picture. They should reactivate memories or dreams in the viewer, that is, address implicit memory, and make the world tangible as real and at the same time as imagination. "

Exhibitions (selection)

Axels Hütte's works have been in galleries a. a. shown in Amsterdam, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Los Angeles, Marseille, Paris, Salzburg, Frankfurt am Main and Rotterdam

  • 1989 Rotterdamse Kunststichting, Rotterdam (NL)
  • 1992 Darmstadt artists' colony
  • 1993 Hamburger Kunsthalle , Hamburg
  • 1995 Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn
  • 1996 Wolfsburg Art Association , Wolfsburg
  • 1997 Hannover Art Association
  • 2001 art gallery in Emden
  • 2004 Museo de Arte Moderno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • 2010 Galerie Ruzicska, Salzburg: Towards the Wood
  • 2011 Wilma Tolksdorf Gallery, Frankfurt am Main: Frankfurt // Emeth
  • 2011 Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid (ES)
  • 2012 Gallery Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg
  • 2013 Palacio Municipal de Exposiciones Kiosco Alfonso, A Coruña, (ES)
  • 2014 Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice (IT)
  • 2014 Paisaje Escindido, Museo San Telmo, San Sebastián (ES).
  • 2017/18 Square Bottrop : The early work .
  • 2017 Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf: Night and Day .
  • 2018 Museum Franz Gertsch Burgdorf (CH): Axel Hütte. On the go - in the distance
  • 2018 Kunsthalle Krems : Imperial - Majestic - Magical
  • 2019 Galerie Daniel Marzona: Kosmos Tropical

Photo volumes (selection)

  • Fund Régional d'Art Contemporain, 1992
  • London, 1993, Schirmer / Mosel, Munich
  • Landscape, 1995, Schirmer and Mosel Verlag, Munich
  • fecit, 2000, Düsseldorf
  • As Dark as Light, 2001, Munich
  • Continents. Landscape photographs , 2002, Schirmer / Mosel, Munich, ISBN 9783888146190
  • Terra Incognita, 2004, Schirmer / Mosel, Munich, ISBN 9783829601177
  • North South, 2006, Schirmer / Mosel, Munich, ISBN 9783829602310
  • En Tierras Extrañas, 2008, Fundación Telefónica, Madrid
  • Out of Darkness, 2009, Waddington Galleries, London
  • Towards the Wood, 2010, Schirmer / Mosel, Munich, ISBN 978-3-8296-0515-1
  • Axel Hut. Night and Day / Frühwerk , with texts by Thomas A. Lange, Heinz Liesbrock and Thomas Weski, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2017
  • Axel Hut. Imperial – Majestic – Magical , with text by Florian Steininger (ed.), Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2018

Lexical entry

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography - Axel Hütte - Artist - Galerie Ludorff. In: ludorff.com. Retrieved October 11, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Axel Hütte , website of the German Study Center.
  3. ↑ Axel Hütte on artnet
  4. ↑ Axel Hütte at artfacts
  5. ↑ So much sublimity does a person carry? in FAZ of November 6, 2017, page 11.
  6. ↑ http://www.lambertundlambert.de/kuenstler/axel-huette/buecher/1995/
  7. ↑ http://www.lambertundlambert.de/kuenstler/axel-huette/buecher/2008/
  8. ^ Axel Hütte Collection ( Memento from February 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Photo book Axel Hütte. Imperial - Majestic - Magical , Kunsthalle Krems, 2018 , on Lambertundlambert.de.
personal data
SURNAME Hut, Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH eat