Axel Hütte was born in 1951 in Essen, Germany. He lives and works in Düsseldorf and Berlin, Germany.
Hütte is among the leading protagonists of contemporary landscape photography and has made an essential contribution to the self-confidence of the photographic medium in fine arts from the late 1970s onwards.
Together 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 character of the photograph as an adequate counterpart to painting.
