He studied photography in Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1973 to 1981, attending Bernd Becher’s class.
[3] Hütte, in addition to his documentary-style work, since the late 1990s, has also turned his interest to subjects that seem more painterly, like landscapes and cityscapes.
His photographs of architecture, such as bridges, stairwells, corridors or subway stations, show seemingly banal things, sometimes only fragments, in a disciplined form but without apparently great sensorial appeal.
The main purpose of his photographic work is not the exact nature of reality using the camera, but the reflection of the relationship between images.
He has been considered the equivalent to a "landscape painter" among contemporary photographers, and has a lot of experience with night shots.