Charles de Gaulle, 1992 (Abzug 2013)

Dimensions: 175.0 x 231.0 cm

Physical Description: C-Print

Inventory Number: DZF 148C

Acquisition: Collection DZ BANK at the Städel Museum

Status: Not on display

Texts

About the Work

The routing is diagonal, horizontal, vertical. Passengers are being ferried on escalators through the transport tubes of the Roissy 1 satellite system at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris. The people, spaces and their structures become the focus of Andreas Gursky’s large-format camera as the sum total of their individual occurrences. Instead of using a paintbrush, he subsequently intervenes in his digital records by mouse click, the aim being not to lessen the degree of reality but to increase it.

Video

Kunst|Stück – Andreas Gursky: Charles de Gaulle

Sammlungshighlights des Städel Museums in unterhaltsamen und informativen Filmen – das sind die Kunst|Stücke. Entdecken Sie spannende Details zu Kunstwerken aus ungewöhnlichen Blickwinkeln in unter zwei Minuten. Andreas Gursky: Charles de Gaulle (2013), Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, © VG Bild-Kunst https://sammlung.staedelmuseum.de/de/werk/charles-de-gaulle#yt

Work Data

Basic Information

Title: Charles de Gaulle (Original Title)

Photographer

Andreas Gursky

Period Produced

School

Becher school

Object Type

photograph

Physical Description: C-Print

Material

Technique

Property and Acquisition

Institution

Städel Museum

Departement

Photographic Collection

Collection

permanent loan

Creditline: Sammlung der DZ BANK im Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright: © Andreas Gursky / Courtesy Sprüth Magers / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024

Acquisition: Collection DZ BANK at the Städel Museum

Work Content

Motifs and References

Genre

architecture

Main Motif

Iconclass

Primary

61F(FLUGHAFEN PARIS-CHARLES-DE-GAULLE) names of historical buildings, sites, streets, etc. (FLUGHAFEN PARIS-CHARLES-DE-GAULLE)
46C381 structures, buildings ~ airfield, airport
46C513 'en route', traveller under way
41A3411 escalator