- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1992.27
- People
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Peter Keetman, German (Wuppertal-Elberfeld, Germany 1916 - 2005 Marquartstein, Germany)
- Title
- Body Assembly (Volkswagen Factory)
- Other Titles
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Original Language Title: Karosserierohbau (Volkswagenwerk)
Title: Lowering of the car body from the assembly stand onto the transverse assembly line for welding and soldering in the west part of hall 2, from the series "one week at the Volkswagen Factory," Wolfsburg 1953
Original Language Title: Absetzen der Karosserien aus den Aufbauböcken auf das Querband für Schweiß- und Lötarbeiten im Rohbau im Westen der Halle 2, aus der Serie "eine Woche im Volkswagenwerk", Wolfsburg 1953 - Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- photograph
- Date
- 1953
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/221097
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Gelatin Silver Print
- Technique
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- image: 23.5 x 17.2 cm (9 1/4 x 6 3/4 in.)
sheet: 24.3 x 17.5 cm (9 9/16 x 6 7/8 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: on verso in graphite at u.r.: Peter Keetman
- stamp: on verso at u.r., black ink, German: FOTO UND COPYRIGHT / PETER KEETMAN / (13b) BREITBRUNN / AM CHIEMSEE. TEL. 305
- inscription: on verso at u.r., graphite, handwritten: 1297
- inscription: on verso at u.r., graphite, handwritten, in artist's hand: 1953
- inscription: on verso at u.r., graphite, handwritten, German, in artist's hand: VW Werk
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Purchase through the generosity of the Cultural Council in the Federation of German Industry
- Copyright
- © Estate of Peter Keetman
- Accession Year
- 1992
- Object Number
- 1992.27
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- vintage print
- Publication History
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Lynette Roth, Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2018), pp. 355-356, fig. 1, ill. (b/w)
- Exhibition History
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A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions from the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Central and Northern Art and Design from 1880 to the Present, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 04/19/2000 - 07/09/2000
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