Search instructions
View alphabetical lists of all artists currently featured on the site.
Select the initial of the artist's name that you are looking for. Scroll down the list until you find the name, and select it for more information about the artist and his or her work.
Search Tip
Artists are organised by their most commonly-used names. This is usually but not always their surname e.g. Leonardo da Vinci is under L, Van Gogh is under V and Raphael is under R.
Andreas Gursky (German, born 1955)
Gursky was born in the German town of Leipzig and studied at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf. He produces photographs which are enlarged to a spectacular, epic scale and frequently digitally enhanced. The pictures are often full of detail and there is an emphasis on strong abstract shapes and colour patterns. In his images of cities, factory and hotel interiors, consumer displays and trading halls, the human presence is either removed altogether or the people are reduced to an insignificant, Lilliputian size. Gursky's huge prints show how man can be dwarfed by society, whether willingly or otherwise.
