View of blast furnace heads B and A of Metallhüttenwerk industrial plant, Lübeck-Herrenwyk, Germany

People:

Bernd and Hilla Becher (photographers)

Title:

View of blast furnace heads B and A of Metallhüttenwerk industrial plant, Lübeck-Herrenwyk, Germany

Date:

1983

Description:

- The group of 86 photographs PH1987:0996 - PH1987:1081 by Bernd and Hilla Becher show 75 views of steel mill blast furnaces and 11 views of mines. There are 45 views of steel mill blast furnaces in Germany, 15 in the United States, and five in each of France, Luxembourg and Belgium. There are five views of mines in Germany, two in Belgium, two in the United States, and one in each of France and Wales.
- The group of 86 photographs PH1987:0996 - PH1987:1081 by Bernd and Hilla Becher show 45 views of steel mill blast furnaces in Germany including: 36 views of three blast furnaces of the Metallhüttenwerk in Lübeck-Herrenwyk (PH1987:0996 - PH1987:1031); three views of the Thyssen Hütte steel mill in Ruhrort, Duisburg (PH1987:1033, PH1987:1043 and PH1987:1050); two views of the Gute-Hoffnungs-Hütte steel mill in Oberhausen, Ruhr (PH1987:1044 and PH1987:1070); and one view each of the Klöckner Werke steel mill in Haspe (PH1987:1032), the Schalker Verein steel mill in Gelsenkirchen, Ruhr (PH1987:1042), the Ilseder Hütte steel mill in Ilsede (PH1987:1034) and the Hainer Hütte steel mill in Siegen (PH1987:1045).
- The photographers indicate that the group of six photographs PH1987:1012 - PH1987:1017 of views of Metallhüttenwerk industrial plant, Lübeck-Herrenwyk, Germany, should be exhibited in two rows arranged from left to right and top to bottom according to the photographers' numerical inscriptions "E 1" through "E 6". Photograph PH1987:1012 would therefore be at the far left of the top row, while photograph PH1987:1017 would be at the far right of the bottom row (Kicken Pauseback, 1987).

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 40.5 x 30.9 cm

Reference number:

PH1987:1016

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

inscribed, numbered, signed and dated - by the photographers, in graphite, on the print, verso, c.: "E 5" [circled]; "Bernd Becher / Hilla Becher"; l.l.: "LÜBECK FURNACES B+A"; and l.r.: "1983" imprinted - in grey ink, on the print, verso, throughout: "Agfa" [diagonally; underlined twice]

Location:

Lübeck; Germany;

Subject:

architecture
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

blast furnaces
steel mill

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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