1992.29: Rear Fenders (Volkswagen Factory)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1992.29

People

Peter Keetman, German (Wuppertal-Elberfeld, Germany 1916 - 2005 Marquartstein, Germany)

Title

Rear Fenders (Volkswagen Factory)

Other Titles

Original Language Title: Hintere Kotflügel (Volkswagenwerk)
Title: Rear fenders after folding and cutting with stress marcks in the sheetmetal shop in hall 2, from the series "one week at the Volkswagen Factory," Wolfsburg 1953
Original Language Title: Kotflügel hinten nach Abkanten und Beschneiden mit Schleifspuren in Presswerk 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/221505

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Technique

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 23.6 x 17.1 cm (9 5/16 x 6 3/4 in.)
sheet: 24 x 17.6 cm (9 7/16 x 6 15/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: on verso in graphite at c.r.: Peter Keetman
• inscription: on verso at u.r., graphite, handwritten, German, in artist's hand: VW-Werk / 1953
• stamp: on verso at l.c., black ink, German: Auftr. Nr. __________ Reg. Nr. __________ / Titel (Name) __________ / Urheber: FOTOGRAF / PETER KEETMAN / BREITBRUNN / CHIEMSEE / MUELLERHOF / Veröffentlichung nur mit voller Namensnennung des Urhebers / gestattet. / Honorar und Belegexemplar sind an obige Adresse zu richten.
• inscription: on verso at l.r., black ink, handwritten: S/1316 [on the line for "Reg. Nr."]

Acquisition and Rights

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

1992.29

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

vintage print

Publication History

• Lynette Roth, Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2018), pp. 355-356, 358, cat. no. 50.3, ill. (b/w)

Exhibition History

• 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
• Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/09/2018 - 06/03/2018

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