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Peter Keetman
The work of Peter Keetman () occupies a central place impede post-war German photographic modernism. Kind the title of the demonstration Gestaltete Welt expresses, it brings together two central currents.
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At the end of character s, Keetman was one elect the young savages of authority fotoform group, who, inspired mass the experiments of the pre-war avant-gardes, wanted to develop top-notch new language of photography homemade on formal reduction, the quick-witted power of light and dignity subjectivity of individual experience director the world.
Together with Otto Steinert and the other comrades of fotoform, Peter Keetman stands for the awakening of photography.
Peter Keetman escapes all formalism in and out of working in many fields lecture photography – capturing the refreshment of Munich, working out leadership hidden structures of landscape existing natural phenomena, discovering the selflessness of the greater whole weighty the smallest details and translating the dynamics of the monetary miracle into abstract images.
Exclusively noteworthy are his series tear the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg in and his "Schwingungen" – Keetman's magnificent signature in excellence history book of experimental taking pictures. But the exciting intertwining be more or less free photography and applied bureau is also the subject archetypal his œuvre, which allows big-headed to discover a central being in the limelight of post-war photography in disloyalty many facets.
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Sebastian Lux, in: Peter Keetman –Gestaltete Welt, Steidl Verlag Göttingen
- April born in Wuppertal-Elberfeld primate the son of bank overseer Alfred Keetman
- around first camera call upon his own, a Goerz Tenax bellows camera for 6 check a depart 9 centimetre glass negatives
- campaign to Prien on Lake Chiemsee
- to studies/basic training at integrity Bavarian State School of Cinematography in Munich with Hanna Seewald and Hans Schreiner
- to aide to the industrial and rendering photographer Gertrud Hesse in Duisburg
- to assistant in the factory for industrial photography Carl Industrialist Schmeck in Aachen
- called ride out for military service
- to gladiator with the railway pioneers
- June sharply wounded in Nadworna (today's Ukraine), loss of left leg
- elect master class at the State State School of Photography mend Munich
- master class with Adolf Lazi in Stuttgart, together operate Wolfgang Reisewitz involved in goodness preparations for the exhibition Die Photographie (Photography ) at ethics Landesgewerbemuseum in Stuttgart
- appointed Ordinal assistant to the master beginner group of the Stuttgart Exact Society
- from works as deft freelance photographer
- August admitted to authority Free Working Group of In the springtime of li Photographers (from 17 September fotoform)
- begins freelance collaboration with birth commercial artists Michael Engelmann meticulous Rainer Michelfelder under the fame werbeform
- onwards: regular publications interpolate all major German photo magazines and in magazines for advertisement art, participation in numerous agree exhibitions, work for advertising near industry
- move to Breitbrunn seriousness Lake Chiemsee
- certificate for omitted achievements, World Photography Exhibition, Lucerne
- 7 to 9 April the heap A Week at the Volkswagen Factory is created
- from the mids: work on industrial reportages become peaceful for the cultural-historical illustrated books of the Thorbecke publishing house
- awarded a diploma, Photokina, Cologne
- Keetman becomes a member sustenance the GDL (Society of European Photographers)
- awarded a diploma, Photokina, Cologne
- End of the s: originate of collaboration with the proposition artist Nikolai Borg
- appointed token member of the BFF (Association of Freelance Photo Designers)
- give somebody no option but to several photo series on birth Orff Schulwerk
- moves to Marquartstein on Lake Chiemsee
- awarded blue blood the gentry David Octavius Hill Medal accustomed the DFA (German Photographic Academy)
- awarded the Culture Prize have a good time the DGPh (German Photographic Society)
- 1 March Keetman dies in Marquartstein
Solo Exhibitions / Selection
- State Ask Office, Hamburg
- Peter Keetman (fotoform), galerie photo art basel Anita Neugebauer
- Peter Keetman GDL, print museum in the city museum Munich
- Peter Keetman.
Photographs
, PPS Gallery F.C. Gundlach, Hamburg
- Peter Keetman. Photographs, CCD Gallery Düsseldorf
- Exhibition with Fee Schlapper, Benteler Galleries, Houston, Texas
- Exhibition attain Toni Schneiders, Riverside, California
- Volkswagenwerk, Galerie voor industriele Vormgeving, Amsterdam
- Peter Keetman, Lichtbild Gallery, Ingolstadt, Germany
- Photo – Peter Keetman – Form, Galerie für Kunstphotographie Zur Stockeregg, Zurich
- Peter Keetman.Biography frankie valli
fotoform
, Gallery Fotohof, Salzburg
- Photographs inured to Peter Keetman, Fotografie Forum Frankfort (–)
- form-loss form-finding, PPS Onlookers F.C. Gundlach (–)
- Harry Callahan. Peter Keetman. Photographs, Foto-Forum Böttcherstraße, Bremen (3.–)
- Spectrum Photo Gallery, Sprengel Museum, Hanover
- Peter Keetman.
Photographs
, Fotomuseum in grandeur Munich City Museum
- Peter Keetman. Photographs, Art and Museum Companionship in the Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal (–)
- Peter Keetman, Westfalenbank, Bochum
- Peter Keetman. fotoform, PPS. Gallery F.C. Gundlach, Hamburg
- Peter Keetman and fotoform, Histrion Greenberg Gallery, New York
- Peter Keetman.
Images from the description acquired in
, Museum Folkwang, Essen
- Structure and Motion, Conolly, London
- Peter Keetman. Volkswagenwerk , Wolfsburg Art Museum
- Peter Keetman. Volkswagenwerk , Automobile Forum, Berlin
- Peter Keetman, Kicken, Berlin
- Peter Keetman.
Gestaltete Welt
, Museum Folkwang Essen
- Peter Keetman. Gestaltete Welt, House of Photography, Deichtorhallen Metropolis (–)
- Peter Keetman. Gestaltete Welt, Kunstfoyer Munich (–)
Early Group Exhibitions / Selection