About the German photographer, Axel HÜTTE (*1951 in Essen).
Axel HÜTTE studied from 1973 to 1981 in the photo class at the Academy of Arts in Düsseldorf with Bernd BECHER. He works as a freelance photographer. In addition to clearly documentary works, since the late 1990s he has also turned to more painterly subjects. He reflects on the mimetic possibilities of photography. The question of his photographic work is not the exact image of reality by means of the camera, but the reflection of the relationship between image and imagination. Axel HÜTTE lives and works in Düsseldorf.
Photo books by and with works by Axel HÜTTE (a selection)
'Fotografie 1981-1988' (1988); 'Aus der Distanz' (1991, zusammen mit Arbeiten von Bernd und Hilla BECHER, Andreas GURSKY, Candida HÖFER, Thomas RUFF, Thomas STRUTH, Petra WUNDERLICH); 'Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain' (1992); 'London' (1993); 'Italien' (1993); 'Landschaft' (1995); 'Theorea' (1996); 'Rheingau. Fotografien' (2000, zus. mit Arbeiten von Albert RENGER-PATZSCH); 'fecit' (2000); 'Einsicht - Ansicht - Aussicht. Architekturphotographie' (2000, zus. mit Arbeiten von Andreas GURSKY, Canidda HÖFER, Thomas RUFF, Thomas STRUTH); 'As Dark as Light' (2001); 'Zwischen Schönheit und Sachlichkeit' (2002, zus. mit Arbeiten von Boris BECKER, Andreas GURSKY, Candida HÖFER, Thomas RUFF, Thomas STRUTH); 'Kontinente. Landschaftsfotografien' (2002); 'Terra Incognita' (2004); 'North South' (2006); 'After Midnight' (2006); 'En Tierras Extrañas' (2008); 'Out of Darkness' (2009); 'Towards the Wood' (2010); 'Der rote Bulli. Stephen Shore und die Neue Düsseldorfer Fotografie' (2010); 'Night and Day / Frühwerk' (2017); 'Fotografien werden Bilder: Die Becher-Klasse' (2017); 'Die Düsseldorfer Photoschule. Photographien 1961-2008' (2017); 'Imperial–Majestic–Magical' (2018); 'Rhein: Der Fluss in der Fotografie seit 1846' (2021, zus. mit Arbeiten von Andreas GURSKY u.v.m.)
Exhibitions (a selection)
- 1989: Rotterdamse Kunststichting, Rotterdam (NL)
1992: Artists' Colony Darmstadt
1993: Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
1995: Rhenish State Museum, Bonn
1996: Kunstverein Wolfsburg
1997: Kunstverein Hanover
2001: Art Gallery Emden
2004: Museo de Arte Moderno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires (ARG)
2010: 'Towards the Wood', Gallery Ruzicska, Salzburg
2011: Gallery Tolksdorf, Frankfurt/M. & Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid
2012: Gallery Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg
2013: Palacio Municipal de Exposiciones Kiosco Alfonso, La Coruña, (ES)
2014: Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice (IT) & Paisaje Escindido, Museo San Telmo, San Sebastián (ES)
2017: 'Night and Day', Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf (Germany)
2017/18: 'The Early Work', Quadrat Bottrop
2018: 'On the road - in the distance', Museum Franz Gertsch Burgdorf (CH); 'Imperial - Majestic - Magical', Kunsthalle Krems
2019: 'Cosmos Tropical', Gallery Daniel Marzona
2020: 'FLuORESCENCE', Gallery Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfurt am Main