Peter Keetman
Spiegelnde Tropfen

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Artist Peter Keetman(German, 1916–2005)German, 1916–2005

CultureGerman

Titles

Spiegelnde Tropfen
Reflected Drops

Date1950

PlaceGermany

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 11 3/4 × 15 5/8 in. (29.8 × 39.6 cm)
Sheet: 11 3/4 × 15 5/8 in. (29.8 × 39.7 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Wallace and Lucile Bowden Johnson in honor of Frances G. McLanahan and Alexander K. McLanahan

Object number82.486

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionA co-founder of Fotoform (with Otto Steinert and Toni Schneiders, among others)—a group of photographers who greatly impacted the development of postwar photography in Germany and abroad—Peter Keetman primarily worked as a freelance advertising photographer in the 1950s and is best-known for his photographic series on the making of Volkswagen Beetle cars. But, true to the Fotoform philosophy, he also embraced the aesthetics of the ‘Subjective Fotographie’ movement, which championed photographic images that often transformed their literal subject for the sake of visual satisfaction. Keetman created images of industrial objects and natural phenomena that invite the viewer to further interpret and reflect on the visual experience of looking at a photograph, as it differs from everyday vision.
Provenance[Benteler Galleries, Inc., Houston]; purchased by MFAH, 1982.
Exhibition History"The Abstract Impulse: Selections from the Modern and Contemporary Collections," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 3 February - 5 May, 2013.

“The Will to Architecture,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, April 1–July 6, 2014.
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