Dieter Appelt
Haus in Oppedette

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

CultureGerman

Titles

Haus in Oppedette

Date1981–1991

MediumWood and fabric

Dimensions29 × 62 × 26 in. (73.7 × 157.5 × 66 cm)

Credit LineGift of Manfred Heiting, The Manfred Heiting Collection

Object number2002.551.1

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Special Collections

Manfred Heiting Collection of Photography

Object Type

SCULPTURE

DescriptionThough he later studied art and photography, Dieter Appelt first trained as a baritone and sang with the Deutsche Opera Berlin for nearly sixteen years. In 1979, he left the opera company and traveled extensively for three years in France, Italy, and Mexico. During two trips to Mexico, he became inspired by the epic story of the life of the Aztec mythological figure Quetzacoatl, about which he made a film and a series of photographs. This experience further developed his interest in prehistoric culture, mythology, and built environments, particularly the ruins of the Anazasi, or ancestral Pueblo peoples, in the ‘Four Corners’ region of the United States. Appelt constructed a cliff-dwelling structure mounted onto a rock face, which he left behind to become part of the landscape in the canyon of Oppedette, in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence region of France.
ProvenanceArtist
Exhibition History“The Will to Architecture,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, April 1–July 6, 2014.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Inscribed in black, verso of sculpture: " Haus Oppedette / 1981/91 / [signature]"

Signed in black, verso of sculpture

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