Dieter Appelt
Photogram

ExpandFavorite

Images(3)

Artist Dieter Appelt (German, born 1935)German, born 1935

CultureGerman

Titles

Photogram

Date1988

MediumGelatin silver print, photogram

DimensionsImage: 5 3/16 × 7 1/16 in. (13.2 × 17.9 cm)
Sheet: 11 15/16 × 15 13/16 in. (30.3 × 40.2 cm)

Credit LineGift of Manfred Heiting, The Manfred Heiting Collection

Object number2002.549

Not on view

Explore Further

Department

Photography

Special Collections

Manfred Heiting Collection of Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionDieter Appelt studied with Heinz Hajek-Halke, a leader of German experimental photography after World War II, but was equally influenced by the conceptual artist Joseph Beuys’s performances or aktionen, as well as by his own training with the Deutsche Opera Berlin. His practice often incorporates a performative use of his own body and found objects to explore the temporal pause and abstraction of form inherent in photography. Appelt considers photography the culmination of his sculpture. He is not interested in explaining the object he depicts; rather, he explores sculpture translated into shadow and light, as in this pair of inverted photograms.
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History“Shadows on the Wall: Cameraless Photography from 1851 to Today” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, August 31– November 30, 2014.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

verso center below stamp in ink: Photogram; lower right in pencil: [illegible] / 2325; bottom left corner: 2945; bottom right corner: 3.0

verso center right in ink: Appelt

Cataloguing data may change with further research.

If you have questions about this work of art or the MFAH Online Collection please contact us.