Thomas Struth

Thomas Struth's Museum Photographs show visitors looking at artworks in major museums and churches. The series examines how people behave around cultural masterpieces, from the Louvre to Italian religious spaces.

Struth studied at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, where Bernd and Hilla Becher shaped a generation of German photographers. That context links him with artists such as Andreas Gursky, Candida Hofer, and Thomas Ruff.

Struth's family portraits are carefully staged group photographs, often made in domestic interiors. They study posture, resemblance, hierarchy, and silence rather than presenting families as casual snapshots.

His early street photographs from the late 1970s and 1980s often show empty urban views with a restrained, frontal approach. The absence of people shifts attention to architecture, planning, and the social traces built into streets.