Thomas Struth
Haus an der Weissenburgstrasse/Geisbergweg

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Artist Thomas StruthGerman, born 1954

CultureGerman

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Haus an der Weissenburgstrasse/Geisbergweg
House on Weissenbeurg Street/Geisberg Way
from the portfolio Eine Projektion für Münster

Date1987

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 14 3/4 × 9 15/16 in. (37.4 × 25.3 cm)
Sheet: 15 3/4 × 10 13/16 in. (40 × 27.5 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Bill and Sara Morgan in honor of Catherine Asher Morgan, The Manfred Heiting Collection

Object number2002.2379.1

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Special Collections

Manfred Heiting Collection of Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionHouse on Weissenbeurg Street documents Thomas Struth’s six video projections
of his own photographs of postwar architecture taken in and around Münster,
Germany, in 1987. The projections were made onto facades of buildings in the
old part of Münster at dusk until 3 a.m. at sites selected by Münster citizens.
By projecting portraits of modern buildings without any human figures, Struth
contemplates the history of the city, a majority of which was bombed at the end
of World War II. This series was commissioned as part of the 1987 Skulptur und Projekte Münster.
Provenance[Manfred Heiting, Malibu, California]; purchased by MFAH, 2002.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited in "Contemporary Photos from the Manfred Heiting Collection" at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, 5/17 through 8/10/03.

"Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made after 1960 from the MFAH Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Brown Foundation Galleries, February 21 - May 9, 2010.
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