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Heinrich Hoerle  (German, 1895 -1936)

Couple, 1931

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Peter Keetman /German, 1916 - 2005

Pipes (Röhre), 1958

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Peter Keetmann, Siegfried Lauterwasser, Toni Schneiders, Wolfgang Reisewitz, Otto Steinert and Ludwig Windstoßer, founded the group "fotoform" in 1949. This group was a loose organization of experimental photographers, who took up an outstanding position within the artistic photography in post-war Europe. The stylistic movement of ‘subjective photography’, which the group developed  – characterized by formal abstraction and its pictorial claim – is, from today’s point of view, the most important contribution to the renewal of photography in Germany after 1945. 

Stylistically, the artists tied in with the photographic experiments of the ‚Neues Sehen’ of the 1920s, while formally and aesthetically trying to strike a new path after the cultural barbarianism of the Nazi period. It is not the objective rendering of reality which ‚subjective photography’ strives for, but the pictorial analysis and personal interpretation through subjective pictorial ideas. The result is a formally conscious structural black and white photography with stressed graphic values.As such, the group succeeded to break away from the conventional, traditional form of photography of the time in an outstanding manner. 

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