THOMAS STRUTH

Thomas Struth (Born, Geldern, Germany, 1954) is one of the world’s foremost photographers. He studied at the Düsseldorf School of Art. He was initially interested in painting, but turned his attention to photography in 1976. His work has garnered numerous awards, including the Spectrum International Prize for Photography, in 1997.

The Prado Museum held a retrospective exhibition of his work, entitled Making Time, in 2007. Comprehensive exhibitions of his work have been organised by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Carré d’Art in Nîmes, Kunstmuseum in Bonn, the Institute of Contemporary Art in London or the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo.