id: 159328 accession number: 1996.13 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1996.13 updated: 2023-08-23 23:35:30.310000 San Zaccaria, Venice, 1995. Thomas Struth (German, b. 1954). Chromogenic print face-mounted to acrylic; image: 182 x 230.5 cm (71 5/8 x 90 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Louis D. Kacalieff, M.D. Fund 1996.13 © Thomas Struth title: San Zaccaria, Venice title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1995 creation date earliest: 1995 creation date latest: 1995 current location: creditline: Louis D. Kacalieff, M.D. Fund copyright: © Thomas Struth --- culture: Germany, 20th century technique: Chromogenic print face-mounted to acrylic department: Photography collection: PH - German 20th Century type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Thomas Struth (German, b. 1954) - artist Thomas Struth German, 1954- Thomas Struth (born in Geldern) relies on the optical precision and detailed resolution of photography to explore social and psychological aspects of the contemporary urban metropolis. A student of Gerhard Richter and Bernd Becher at the Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf, Struth inherited from his instructors a similar conceptual approach. His work of the early 1980s, austere black-and-white images of buildings and city streets devoid of human activity, suggests urban malaise and, at the same time, a sense of soulful detachment from the environment. For his later works, Struth moved into color and greatly increased the scale of his photographs, invoking a more participatory relationship between image and viewer. His scenes expanded to include people interacting in public spaces such as museums and churches, or posed in family portraits. Struth has exhibited internationally, with one-person shows at the Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art (1987), the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (1992), the Saint Louis Art Museum (1993), the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (1994), and the Kunstmuseum, Bonn (1995). His monographs include Thomas Struth, Unbewusste Orte/Unconscious Places (1987), Thomas Struth (1989), Thomas Struth Photographs (1990), Thomas Struth (1991), Thomas Struth: Portraits (1992), Thomas Struth, Museum Photographs (1993), and Thomas Struth: Strangers and Friends: Photographs 1986-1992 (1994). He lives in Düsseldorf. A.W. --- measurements: Image: 182 x 230.5 cm (71 5/8 x 90 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on verso: "Chiesa San Zaccaria / Venedig 1995 / 5/10 / Thomas Struth [signed] / Print 1995" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 1996-11-24T05:00:00 Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 24, 1996-February 2, 1997). title: Thomas Struth opening date: 2002-05-08T00:00:00 Thomas Struth. The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX (organizer) (May 8-August 18, 2002); The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (September 15, 2002-January 5, 2003); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago, IL (June 28-September 28, 2003). title: BIG: Photographs from the Collection opening date: 2016-06-04T04:00:00 BIG: Photographs from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 12-October 9, 2016). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: In 1989, Thomas Struth began a remarkable series of large-scale color photographs of people visiting art museums around the world. He recorded people looking at art—a common, yet difficult-to-describe activity that combines aesthetics, education, and entertainment. Taken in the summer of 1995 in Venice, on a four-day shoot that produced 60 negatives, this immense photograph depicts the interior of the church of San Zaccaria (originally designed by Antonio di Marco Gambello in the Gothic style and completed in the later 15th century by Maruo Coducci in the Renaissance style). Struth set up his camera at eye level, focusing directly on Giovanni Bellini's magnificent altarpiece of 1505, "The Virgin and Child with Saints Peter, Catherine, Lucy, and Jerome." He then captured on film the poses and attitudes of visitors contemplating the artistic embellishments of a building intended not as a museum, but as a place of worship. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Struth, Thomas, and Douglas Eklund. Thomas Struth, 1977-2002. Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art, 2002. page number: Reproduced p. 127, mentioned p. 177 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 68-69, 348 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, “The Cleveland Museum of Art Acquires Major Works,” March 18, 1996, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr4027 Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 36 no. 10, December 1996 page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 5 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM1996-10/page/4 Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 317 url: --- IMAGES