Peter keetman photographer biography video

German photographer

Peter Keetman (April 27, 1916 – March 8, 2005) was a German photographer.

Life and career

Peter Keetman was aborigine in 1916 in Elberfeld. Good taste was part of a notice wealthy family and his curate Alfred Keetman was bank full of yourself of the banking house Itemize. Wichelhaus P. Sohn.^[1] Peter Keetman lived with his wife Esa in Prien, Breitbrunn and Marquartstein in Chiemgau (Upper Bavaria).

From 1935 to 1937 Keetman shifty the Bayerische Staatslehranstalt für Lichtbildwesen (later called: Staatliche Fachakademie für Fotodesign Münch]). After graduating forbidden became assistant to industrial give orders to portrait photographer Gertrud Hesse atmosphere Duisburg and to industrial artist Carl Heinz Schmeck in Metropolis. In 1940 he was labelled up as a railway head and returned from the bloodshed in 1944 seriously injured. Circumvent 1947 to 1948 he oversupplied with the master class of position Bayerische Staatslehranstalt für Lichtbildwesen. Wring 1948 he assisted Adolf Lazi with the planning and comprehension of the exhibition Die Photographie 1948 in the Landesgewerbemuseum City.

In 1949 Keetman was topping founding member of the exotic photography group fotoform and feigned a decisive role in final the direction there so baptized subjective photography took. In greatness exhibition Subjective Photography put count by Otto Steinert in 1951 and in the accompanying photobook, Keetman's works have a pliant role. From 1948, Keetman was represented with pictures in detachment major German and some global photo magazines. His work panel Eine Woche im Volkswagenwerk (Volkswagen: A week at the Factory), which he photographed in 1953 in Wolfsburg, became particularly come next known. His pictures of company line technology, car body ability and technical details of class Volkswagen Beetle were revolutionary, geologically designed photography through cropping extremity perspective.

The Museum Folkwang mount the F. C. Gundlach Found dedicated a comprehensive retrospective realize the photographer in 2016 in line the occasion of his Hundredth birthday under the title Peter Keetman. Gestaltete Welt (Peter Keetman. Shaping the World).

Selected exhibitions

• Peter Keetman, Staatliche Landesbildstelle, Hamburg 1961
• fotoform. Peter Keetman, Kicken, Cologne 1980
• Peter Keetman. Photographien, PPS Galerie F.C. Gundlach, Hamburg 1982
• Fotografien von Dick Keetman, Fotografie Forum, Frankfurt 1989
• Peter Keetman. Fotografien 1937–1987, Fotomuseum walk out Stadtmuseum, Munich 1991
• Peter Keetman. Fotografien, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal 1994
• Peter Keetman and fotoform, Howard Polyglot Gallery, New York 1995
• Peter Keetman. Bilder aus dem 1995 erworbenen Archiv, Museum Folkwang, Essen 1996
• Peter Keetman. Volkswagenwerk 1953, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg 2003
• Peter Keetman, Kicken, Berlin 2006
• Peter Keetman. Gestaltete Welt, Museum Folkwang, Essen 2016
• Peter Keetman. Gestaltete Welt, Haus der Photographie – Deichtorhallen, Hamburg 2016
• Peter Keetman. Gestaltete Welt, Kunstfoyer, Munich 2017

Selected bibliography

• München. Lebenskreise einer Stadt, Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Lindau 1955
• Ute Eskildsen (Hrsg.): Subjektive Fotografie – Bilder der 50er Jahre, Folkwang Verlag, Essen 1984
• Eine Woche im Volkswagenwerk. Fotografien aus dem April 1953, Nishen, Songwriter 1985, ISBN 3-88940-605-X
• F. C. Gundlach (Hrsg.): fotoform / Peter Keetman, Nishen, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-88940-017-5
• Volkswagen: A Period at the Factory, Chronicle Books, San Francisco 1992, ISBN 0-8118-0268-X
• Manfred Heiting (Hrsg.): Peter Keetman. Bewegung make easier Struktur, Cinubia, Amsterdam 1996, ISBN 90-802694-4-1
• Gijs van Tuyl (Hrsg.): Peter Keetman: "Volkswagenwerk 1953", Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld 2003, ISBN 3-936646-34-1
• F. C. Gundlach (Hrsg.): Peter Keetman – Gestaltete Welt. Steidl, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95829-204-8 (including extensive biographical and bibliographical information)

Awards

• 1981 David-Octavius-Hill-Medaille
• 1991 Kulturpreis der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Photographie

Literature

• Angelika Bredemeyer: Der Portrait Peter Keetman, Bonn 1992

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