Raucheck, 2011
Hütte holds a prominent position in contemporary landscape photography and has significantly contributed to establishing the photographic medium's distinct identity in visual arts since the late 1970s.
Axel Hütte was born in 1951 in Essen, Germany. He lives and works in Düsseldorf and Berlin, Germany.
Along with colleagues from the Düsseldorf School under Bernd and Hilla Becher - such as Candida Höfer, Andreas Gursky, or Thomas Struth - Hütte represents the tableau-like nature of the photograph as an appropriate counterpart to the painting.