Andreas Gursky was born in 1955 in Leipzig, East Germany, and studied at the prestigious Kunstakademie, Dusseldorf. His first solo gallery show was held at Galerie Johnen & Schottle, Cologne, in 1988.

Andreas Gursky (*1955 inLeipzig ) has ranked for many years among the world’s leading photographic artists. Now, for the first time ever, an attempt is being made to unfurl the artist’s oeuvre in all its encyclopedic glory.

A Japanese power plant, the patterned facades of an apartment complex in Paris--in the work of Andreas Gursky, both private dwellings and the domains of industrial and political power are made into overpowering forces of urban life.