Familienleben - Thomas Struth

Thomas Struth's photographic oeuvre features entire families. Encounters with artists, collectors, museum staff all gave Struth an occasion to create group portraits that bear comparison with the great examples set by Velazquez through to Goya. Transposed onto a modern medium and set in our present world, Struth s large-format family portraits exhibit an undeniable representative character. The need to present oneself as an individual in the framework of a hierarchical order remains manifest even in the ostensibly most relaxed of groupings.