Andreas Gursky.
ANDREAS GURSKY Andreas Gursky (born 15 January 1955) is a German photographer and professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf , Germany. [1] He is known for his large format architecture and landscape colour photographs , often employing a high point of view. Gursky shares a studio with Laurenz Berges , Thomas Ruff and Axel Hütte on the Hansaallee, in Düsseldorf. [2] The building, a former electricity station, was transformed into an artists studio and living quarters, in 2001, by architects Herzog & de Meuron , of Tate Modern fame. [3] In 2010-11, the architects worked again on the building, designing a gallery in the basement. [4] Gursky was born in Leipzig , East Germany in 1955. His family relocated to West Germany, moving to Essen and then Düsseldorf by the end of 1957. [5] From 1978 to 1981, he attended Folkwangschule , Essen, where he is said to have studied under Otto Steinert . However, it has been disputed that this can't really be t