Frank breuer biography
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Frank BreuerGerman
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Breuer is one of the last artists to have studied at the Düsseldorf Academy with Bernd and Hilla Becher, whose teaching influenced a generation of German photographers including Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Thomas Struth, and Thomas Ruff. Like his teachers, Breuer accumulates individual examples of architectural types-in this case, the façades of transnational, post-industrial corporations that line the highways of the world. Photographed frontally under blank white skies, the buildings appear flat and insubstantial, like floating billboards. Unlike the ugly but endearing modernist behemoths photographed by the Bechers, these vaguely sinister false fronts-here, of Nike and Philip Morris-reveal nothing of what goes on inside, instead projecting the pure hypnotic power of a logo over a bright monochrome surface like heraldic
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Year of birth, place
Biography
Frank Breuer's work as a photographer forms two major groups of images, both of which take monumental architectural shapes as their subjects. In 1994 he started work on a series of black-and-white images of war memorials. This series is sub-divided into groups between two and six images, which Breuer displays in tableaux. In 1995 Breuer embarked on a second series, consisting of photographs of poles with company logos, in each case recorded in isolation from their settings.
Group exhibitions (selection)
1993 »Rundgang«, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf; »Ausstellung zum Ida Gerhardi Preis 1994«, Städtische Galerie Lüdenscheid
1994 »149,2
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Born in Germany in 1963, Breuer notably studied beneath Bernd Becher at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, better known these days as The Dusseldorf School of Photography. He currently lives and works in Cologne. The influence of the Bechers on his work fryst vatten immediately obvious. However, in Germany, because one originally shoots in the style of your professor and the professor was Bernd Becher this is not surprising. Breuer studied late in Bernd’s career.
The work Breuer fryst vatten most known for are his series of Containers, Poles, Warehouses and Logos made in the taxonomic style of the Bechers.
Containers is an obvious series for me to look into due to the port at Landguard Point.
Containers was first shown at the Rocket Gallery in London at the end of 2003. “Breuer…has explored a new corner of the [Bechers] artistic planerat arbete by photographing warehouses or brilliantly coloured shipping containers stacked like random sculptures against a milky pale sky” (Economist,