Rhein II

Andreas Gursky Rhein II digitally processed photography 185.4 × 363.5 cm private property Link to image ( Please note copyrights )

Rhein II is a color photograph by German artist Andreas Gursky from the year 1999.

( The original image can be here for copyright reasons not be shown. It can be viewed in English but articles )

Background

The photo was taken as the second and largest of a series of six images of the Rhine. Under overcast skies, the Rhine flows horizontally between grassy dikes. Under the front dike is to see a paved bicycle and pedestrian path. Originally Scanned with power plant Lausward and other port facilities in the background and a person in the foreground, performs her dog were digitally removed from Gursky. The picture was taken from the dike on the Rhine Avenue in Dusseldorf -Oberkassel between the road and the Valkyrie Hectorstraße. He had the image in the C -Print in a size of 185.4 × 363.5 cm ausbelichten and fit with the image side of acrylic glass.

The gallery Monika Sprueth in Cologne acquired the print and sold it to an anonymous German collector. On 8 November 2011, the picture reached in New York at a Christie's auction at a price of 3.1 million euros and thus became the most expensive photograph in the world. The identity of the buyer is - as often in auctions through international auction houses, which can also be given by telephone - not known.

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