• Bernd and Hilla Becher (photographers)

View of blast furnace head A of Metallhüttenwerk industrial plant, Lübeck-Herrenwyk, Germany

1983

- 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 four photographs PH1987:0996 - PH1987:0999 of blast furnace head A of Metallhüttenwerk industrial plant, Lübeck-Herrenwyk, Germany, should be exhibited in a row from left to right in numerical order according to the photographers' inscriptions "A 1" through "A 4" (Kicken Pauseback, 1987).

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 40.4 x 30.8 cm

PH1987:0998

• exterior view

numbered, inscribed, signed and dated - by the photographers, in graphite, on the print, verso, c.: "1 2 3 4"; "A 3" [circled]; "BLASTFURNACE [sic] HEAD A" [erased]; "1 4 3 4" [within squares; erased]; and "Bernd Becher / Hilla Becher"; l.l. to b.: "LÜBECK BLASTFURNACE [sic] HEAD A"; and l.r.: "1983" imprinted - in grey ink, on the print, verso, throughout: "Agfa" [diagonally; underlined twice]

Lübeck; Germany;

• architecture
• ingénierie

• blast furnace
• steel mill

© Estate Bernd & Hilla Becher, represented by Max Becher