Dieter Appelt
I don't want to elevate myself above the trees

I don't want to elevate myself above the trees

© Dieter Appelt / Courtesy Kicken Berlin

I don't want to elevate myself above the trees
I don't want to elevate myself above the trees
ArtistGerman, born 1935
CultureGerman
Titles
  • I don't want to elevate myself above the trees
  • from the series A Walk in the Moor
  • Moorbehehung
Date1977
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 11 5/8 × 9 1/16 in. (29.5 × 23 cm)
Sheet: 12 1/16 × 9 7/16 in. (30.6 × 24 cm)
Credit LineThe Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection
Object number91.353
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceAllan Chasanoff, New York; given to MFAH, 1991.
Exhibition History"Tradition and the Unpredictable: The Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Upper Jones and Wiess Galleries; January 16-March 27, 1994.

"Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made after 1960 from the MFAH Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Brown Foundation Galleries, February 21 - May 9, 2010.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Verso of sheet in black ink, lower center: Pha"lumf(?) Title in German?
Verso of sheet, stamped in blue ink, LR quadrant: Copyright
I Berlin 12
D' Appelt
Carmerstrasse 19
Signed by the artist,verso of sheet in black ink, LR corner: Appelt
1997
11(?)/15

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