Pear, Passion Fruit and Lychee
2000, printed 2001
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View on museum website →Medium
chromogenic print
Dimensions
image: 40 × 27.4 cm (15 3/4 × 10 13/16 in.) sheet: 40 × 29.8 cm (15 3/4 × 11 3/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the Heather and Tony Podesta Collection
Accession Number
2012.116.8
About the Artist
Wolfgang Tillmans
Wolfgang Tillmans, born on 16 August 1968 in Remscheid, West Germany, developed an early fascination with photography through visits to museums in Düsseldorf and Cologne, where he encountered the photo-based works of Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol. A 1983 exchange student trip to England introduced him to British youth culture, inspiring his later focus on club...