"Fachwerkshaus Gosenbach"

art postcard

Postcard print

signed by Hilla Becher

The works of Bernd and Hilla Becher are considered an important contribution to the development of conceptual and typological photography in Germany. They photographed and catalogued various types of industrial buildings, including blast furnaces, water towers, and coal bunkers, as well as traditional half-timbered houses such as the half-timbered house in Gosenbach, west of Siegen in North Rhine-Westphalia.
In the late 1970s, the Bechers founded a school of artistic photography that later became known as the Düsseldorf Photo School. They are thus considered a further development of Neue Sachlichkeit with from the 1920s and early 1930s, with photographers such as August Sander, Karl Blossfeldt and Albert Renger-Patzsch.
(Christoph Fuchs)