Andreas Gursky
Visual Artist
1955 –
Who is Andreas Gursky?
Andreas Gursky is a German photographer and Professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany. He is known for his large format architecture and landscape colour photographs, often employing a high point of view. Gursky shares a studio with Laurenz Berges, Thomas Ruff and Axel Hutte on the Hansaallee, in Düsseldorf. The building, a former electricity station, was transformed into an artists studio and living quarters, in 2001, by architects Herzog & de Meuron, of Tate Modern fame. In 2010-11, the architects worked again on the building, designing a gallery in the basement.
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- Born
- Jan 15, 1955
Leipzig - Also known as
- Гурски, Андреас
- Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Education
- Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
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on July 23, 2013
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