Thomas Struth

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Full Name	Thomas Struth
Date Of Birth	Oct 11, 1954(1954-10-11)
Age	70
Birthplace	Geldern
Country	Germany
Birth City	North Rhine-Westphalia
Horoscope	Libra

Thomas Struth Biography

Thomas Struth is one of the most popular and richest Photographer who was born on October 11, 1954 in Geldern, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Thomas Struth (born 1954) is a German photographer, most well- known by his Museum Photographs, family portraits and 1970s black and-white photographs from the city streets in Dusseldorf as well as New York City. Struth lives and is based at Berlin in Berlin and New York.

In the late 1980s Struth introduced a new aspect to his work when he began producing family portraits. Some are color and some that are black and white. The reason for this was a discussion and the psychoanalytic Ingo Hartmann. In the end, these photographs attempt to reveal the social dynamics that are at work in a photograph that appears to be still.

Struth’s work has been widely shown in solo and group exhibitions, among them the 44th Venice Biennale (1990) and Documenta IX (1992) at Kassel. His first solo show outside of Germany took place at Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh in

1987. In 1988, Struth exhibited in the group show “Another Objectivity”, organized by the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, which sought to define a current of research born in Germany in the wake of the Bechers’ work. Struth later had his first solo exhibition in the U.S. at The Renaissance Society in Chicago in 1990. Following the anthological exhibitions held in 2002 at the Dallas Museum of Art and the MOCA in Los Angeles, in 2003 his work was presented at the Great Hall of the Metropolitan Museum, with the screening of the video One Hour Video Portraits of portraits on which Struth had been working since 1996. The centre of the exhibition was the Museum series, which featured seemingly ordinary shots of people entering churches, museums and other public places. In 2007, he became the first contemporary artist ever to be exhibited at the Museo del Prado, Madrid, among the permanent collection of old masters.

Basing himself in Düsseldorf, Struth’s profile continued to expand in the 1990s. Between 1998 and 2006, Struth began scouring the earth for jungle settings in Japan, Australia, China, America and Europe; his first eight large-format Pictures from Paradise were created in 1998 in the Daintree Rainforest in Australia. Between 1995 and 2003, he produced a series of photographs featuring groups of people gathered at emblematic locations, whether as tourists or as pilgrims.

The year 1977 was the time that Struth along with Hutte went the UK with Hutte and Struth in 1977. They stayed in England over two years and worked together to capture various aspects of housing within the urban environment in East London. In 1978, Struth became the very first artist-in-residence at P.S. 1 Studios, Long Island City. In 1979, Struth traveled to Paris to meet Thomas Schutte, a fellow student at the Kunstakademie and then continued to take photos of cityscapes. He continued to create similar work of cityscapes in Rome (1984), Edinburgh (1985), Tokyo (1986) as well as other locations. These early works mostly consisted of black-and-white images of streets. Skyscrapers were another element that he used, and a lot of his photos trying to illustrate the connection individuals have with their contemporary world.

Thomas Struth Net Worth

Thomas Struth is one of the richest Photographer from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Thomas Struth 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Born to ceramic artist Gisela Struth, and director of the bank Heinrich Struth in Geldern, Germany He studied in the Dusseldorf Academy from 1973 until 1980 when he began studying drawing in the studio of Peter Kleemann and, from 1974, Gerhard Richter. In a growing interest in photography and supported by Richter, Struth, along with Candida Hofer, Axel Hutte, and Roswitha Ronkholz, took part in the inaugural year of the photography course taught by Bernd and Hilla Becher, starting in 1976. In 2007 Struth was an artist-in-residence in the Atlantic Center for the Arts.

In 1976, in an exhibition for students at the Academy in 1976, Struth presented the grid, which was comprised of 49 photos that were taken from a central perspective on the streets of Dusseldorf and each one of them following the strict rules that was based on central symmetry. The compositions are easy and the photos are not staged nor are they digitally altered during post-production. Contrasts that are strong between shadow and light are avoided. Struth prefers the uninflected, greyish light that is early in the morning. This enhances the neutrality of photographs.

In 1989, Struth began work on his best-known cycle, Museum Photographs, devoted to the visitors to some of the world’s great museums and buildings, including The Art Institute of Chicago, the Musée du Louvre in Paris, the Accademia in Venice, and the Pantheon in Rome. Expanding the practice after living in Naples and Rome at the end of the 1980s, he also photographed visitors of churches. From 1998 on, Struth expanded the series with images shot on sites of powerful secular significance (including Times Square and the Yosemite National Park). His pictures of the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, taken between 1996 and 2001, comprise the first series of Museum Photographs dedicated entirely to a single museum with architectural and sculptural works from classical antiquity, including the famous Pergamon Altar and the market gate of Milet. After several unsuccessful attempts to make works based on candid shots of visitors at the Pergamon Museum, in 2001 he decided to orchestrate the positioning of participants in a series of photos. Struth’s “Museo del Prado” series from 2005, composed of five photographs taken over the course of one week, all shot from slightly different angles, of visitors flocking around Velázquez’s Las Meninas. Also in 2005, he began producing a second series consisting of close-ups of spectators of a single work at the Hermitage in St. Petersburg. Here the spectators are the central object of the photograph, while the artwork itself remains outside the frame. By including in his photographs people who are looking at art, “Struth makes viewers … aware of their own active participation in the completion of the work’s meaning, not as passive consumers but as re-interpreters of the past.”

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In 2010, a European retrospective of his work, “Thomas Struth: Photographs 1978–2010” was held at Kunsthaus Zürich, later traveling to Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen K20, Düsseldorf; Whitechapel Gallery, London; and Museu Serralves, Porto.

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Is Thomas Struth still alive?

Thomas Struth was born 1954 in Geldern, Germany and currently lives and works in Berlin. He is best known for his genre-defying photographs, though he began originally with painting before he enrolled at the Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf in 1973.

What does Thomas Struth photography?

Thomas Struth’s mesmerizing, large-format photographs capture the wonders of nature, machinery, architecture, and contemporary life itself. Struth is best known for his pictures of museum crowds and of scientific megastructures such as CERN; the act … Represented by industry leading galleries.

Where was Thomas Struth born?

Geldern, Germany