Peter Keetman
Peter Keetman (born April 27, 1916 in Elberfeld , today a district of Wuppertal ; † March 8, 2005 in Marquartstein , Bavaria ) was a German photographer .
life and work
Peter Keetman was born in 1916 to a wealthy family in Elberfeld. His father Alfred Keetman, married to Käthe Simons, was consul and bank director of the J. Wichelhaus P. Sohn bank . Keetman House, demolished in 1981, was his birthplace and parents' home. Peter Keetman lived with his wife Esa in Prien , Breitbrunn and Marquartstein in Chiemgau ( Upper Bavaria ). The composer and music teacher Gunild Keetman was his sister.
From 1935 to 1937 Peter Keetman attended the Bavarian State Institute for Photography (most recently: State Academy for Photo Design Munich ). He then assisted the industrial and portrait photographer Gertrud Hesse in Duisburg and in the studio of the industrial photographer Carl Heinz Schmeck in Aachen . In 1940 he was called up to the railroad pioneers and in 1944 returned from the war seriously injured. After his recovery he attended the master class at the Bavarian State School for Photography and passed his master's examination in 1948. In 1948 he assisted Adolf Lazi in the planning and implementation of the exhibition Die Photographie 1948 in the Stuttgart State Trade Museum.
Keetman was a founding member of the avant-garde photographer group fotoform in 1949 and, as a freelance advertising photographer, played a key role in the direction that subjective photography took in the 1950s . Keetman's works have a permanent and style-defining place in the exhibition Subjective Photography compiled by Otto Steinert in 1951 and in the accompanying volume. From 1948 Keetman was represented with pictures and portfolios in all major German photo magazines, later also in some international magazines. In addition, due to the preferred topics, there are many publications and illustrations in periodicals that deal with architecture, industrial photography, design or graphics. His work series One Week at the Volkswagenwerk, which he recorded at Volkswagen in Wolfsburg in 1953 , became particularly well known . His pictures of assembly line technology, body parts and technical details during the construction of the VW Beetle, which were graphically designed through image detail and perspective, were revolutionary.
The Museum Folkwang and the FC Gundlach Foundation dedicated a comprehensive retrospective to the photographer in 2016 on the occasion of his 100th birthday under the title Design World. A photographic life's work .
Exhibitions (selection)
- Peter Keetman , State Image Office, Hamburg 1961
- photo form. Peter Keetman , Kicken, Cologne 1980
- Peter Keetman. Photographs , PPS Galerie FC Gundlach, Hamburg 1982
- Photographs by Peter Keetman , Fotografie Forum, Frankfurt 1989
- Peter Keetman. Photographs 1937–1987 , Fotomuseum im Stadtmuseum, Munich 1991
- Peter Keetman. Photographs , Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal 1994
- Peter Keetman and fotoform , Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York 1995
- Peter Keetman. Pictures from the archive acquired in 1995 , Museum Folkwang, Essen 1996
- Peter Keetman. Volkswagen factory 1953 , art museum, Wolfsburg 2003
- Peter Keetman , Kicken, Berlin 2006
- Peter Keetman. Shaped World , Museum Folkwang, Essen 2016
- Peter Keetman. Shaped world , House of Photography - Deichtorhallen, Hamburg 2016
- Peter Keetman. Design world , art foyer, Munich 2017
Books and catalogs (selection)
- Munich. Life circles of a city , Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Lindau 1955
- Ute Eskildsen (Ed.): Subjective Photography - Images of the 1950s , Folkwang Verlag, Essen 1984
- A week at the Volkswagen factory. Photographs from April 1953 , Nishen, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-88940-605-X .
- FC Gundlach (ed.): Fotoform / Peter Keetman , Nishen, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-88940-017-5 .
- Manfred Heiting (Ed.): Peter Keetman. Movement and Structure , Cinubia, Amsterdam 1996, ISBN 90-802694-4-1 .
- Gijs van Tuyl (Ed.): Peter Keetman: "Volkswagenwerk 1953" , Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld 2003, ISBN 3-936646-34-1 .
- FC Gundlach (Ed.): Peter Keetman - Shaped World . Steidl, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95829-204-8 . (with biography and detailed bibliography)
Awards
literature
- Angelika Bredemeyer: The photographer Peter Keetman , Bonn 1992
Web links
- The Peter Keetman Archive at the FC Gundlach Foundation
- Information on Peter Keetman in the Deutsche Fotothek
- Literature by and about Peter Keetman in the catalog of the German National Library
- Photos like cool Jazz , Die ZEIT from June 30, 2016
- Peter Keetman. Biography, awards, exhibitions , Museum Folkwang (.pdf)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Keetman, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 27, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Elberfeld |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 8, 2005 |
| Place of death | Marquartstein (Upper Bavaria) |