Axel Hütte

Alex Hütte
Born	1951 Essen
Nationality	German
Education	Düsseldorf School of Photography
Known for	photography
Movement	landscape, cityscape

Axel Hütte is a German photographer.

Hütte was born in the German city of Essen in 1951. He studied photography in Dusseldorf Art Academy from 1973 to 1981, attending Bernd Becher’s class. He received a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service to study in London and in 1985 a scholarship to study at the German Study Center in the Palazzo Barbarigo della Terrazza in Venice. From 1986 to 1988 he was the recipient of a Karl Schmidt-Rottluff scholarship.

In 1993, Hütte received the Hermann Claasen Prize for Creative Photography. Since then, he has been working as a freelance photographer. He shares a studio with Andreas Gursky and Thomas Ruff. He is considered one of five main representatives of the Dusseldorf School of Photography.

Hütte's work is held in the following permanent public collections:

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