Mason's Workshop
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.Completed when Bernd Becher was about twenty-one years old, this accomplished lithograph is believed to be the earliest surviving composition by the artist. The individual elements are simply but effectively delineated and include a worker’s clothing, a drop cloth, crude scaffolding, and a large steel float for plastering walls and floors. The interior view evokes the scene at the beginning or end of a typical workday without depicting the laborer or the labor itself.
Artwork Details
- Title: Mason's Workshop
- Artist: Bernd Becher (German, 1931–2007)
- Date: 1952
- Medium: Lithograph
- Dimensions: Sheet: 16 7/16 × 23 9/16 in. (41.8 × 59.9 cm)
Frame: 24 5/8 × 30 1/2 in. (62.5 × 77.5 cm) - Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Estate Bernd & Hilla Becher, represented by Max Becher, courtesy Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur—Bernd & Hilla Becher Archive, Cologne.
- Rights and Reproduction: © Estate Bernd & Hilla Becher, represented by Max Becher, courtesy Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur—Bernd & Hilla Becher Archive, Cologne.
- Curatorial Department: Photographs