Andreas Gursky

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Andreas Gursky is a German visual artist known for his enormous architecture and landscape color photographs, often employing a high point of view. He is represented by the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York and by Spruth Magers Berlin London in Europe. He was born in Leipzig in 1955, but he grew up in Dusseldorf, the son of a commercial photographer. In the early 1980s, at Germany's State Art Academy, the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, Gursky received strong training and influence from his teachers Hilla and Bernd Becher, a photographic team known for their distinctive, dispassionate method of systematically cataloging industrial machinery and architecture.