Dieter Appelt
Photogram

Photogram

© Dieter Appelt / Courtesy Kicken Berlin

Photogram
Photogram
ArtistGerman, born 1935
CultureGerman
Titles
  • Photogram
Date1988
MediumGelatin silver print, photogram
DimensionsImage: 5 5/16 × 7 1/16 in. (13.5 × 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 number2002.548
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
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.
ProvenanceArtist
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; bottom left corner in pencil: 2946; bottom right corner: 310
verso center right in ink: Appelt
verso center a stamp with ink additions: DIETER APPELT / © 1988 / No [illegible]

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Photogram
Dieter Appelt
1988
Gelatin silver print, photogram
2002.549
Photogram
Dieter Appelt
1988
Gelatin silver print
2002.550
Sequence—Ezra Pound
Dieter Appelt
1981
Gelatin silver print
91.354
I don't want to elevate myself above the trees
Dieter Appelt
1977
Gelatin silver print
91.353
Die Befreiung der Finger
Dieter Appelt
1979, printed 1982
Gelatin silver print
91.352
Haus in Oppedette
Dieter Appelt
1981–1991
Gelatin silver print
2002.551.2
Haus in Oppedette
Dieter Appelt
1981–1991
Gelatin silver print
2002.551.3
Haus in Oppedette
Dieter Appelt
1981–1991
Gelatin silver print
2002.551.4
Der Fleck auf dem Spiegel, den der Atemhauch schafft
Dieter Appelt
1977
Gelatin silver print
2002.560
Haus in Oppedette
Dieter Appelt
1981–1991
Gelatin silver print
2002.551.6
Haus in Oppedette
Dieter Appelt
1981–1991
Gelatin silver print
2002.551.5
Still from the film "Image of life and of death"
Dieter Appelt
1981
Gelatin silver prints
2002.555