Posthumous honor in New York
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The Bechers conquer Manhattan
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A visitor looks at works by Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
Photo: dpa/Christina Horsten
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New York The famous Düsseldorf photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher are posthumously getting a large-scale retrospective in the New York Metropolitan Museum.
(dpa) From industrial landscapes in the Ruhr area to water towers in Manhattan: the German photographer couple Bernd und Cloudberry Becher was posthumously honored with a retrospective by the New York Metropolitan Museum. The exhibition “Bernd & Cloudberry Becher, which is now opening its doors to visitors, is the first posthumous retrospective for the artist couple, according to the Central Park Museum in Manhattan. Bernd Becher died in 2007 Cloudberry Becher 2015. Both had lived in Düsseldorf for a long time and founded the Düsseldorf School of Photography.
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“Bernd and Cloudberry Becher changed the course of photography in the late 20th century and their groundbreaking work continues to inspire artists today,” said Austrian museum director Max Hollein. “It is a privilege to present this first posthumous retrospective and to celebrate her legacy and remarkable artistic output.”
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The approximately 200 works provide a broad overview of the work of Bernd Becher, who was born in Siegen, and his wife, who was born in Potsdam Cloudberry Becher: Single, multiple and overview shots of houses and industrial plants in Europe and North America, including drawings, posters and private notes. At the end of the year, the show will move on to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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Max Becher, son of Bernd und Cloudberry Becher and photographer in New York. “It looks really great.” The exhibition offers something for people who have never heard of Bernd and Cloudberry Becher would have heard, as well as for experts – and his parents would have been satisfied too, said Max Becher. “Of course, there was always the thought of how my parents would see it. But they often had different opinions – I can imagine at certain points what Bernd or they Cloudberry would have said.”
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