view work

Swiss artist. Born 1944 in Bern Switzerland; died 2010 in Bern.
Balthasar Burkhard was a Swiss photographer who worked primarily in black and white photography. He printed his own silverprints himself, often in huge dimensions, and framed his images in iron frames behind glass.
He is internationally recognized as an important minimalist artist, with works in several international museums and public collections.
He often worked in cycles. His cityscapes, landscapes or deserts are mostly taken from the bird's-eye-view perspective: photographed from helicopters or atop skyscrapers. His photographs of megacities such as Tokyo, Mexico City and Chicago are juxtaposed against expansive sandy desert scenes.
In the new cycle "Rio Negro", Balthasar Burkhard worked in the rain forests of the Amazon. In this series, his lens captured details from nature which a naked human eye cannot see.