Background
Peter Keetman was born in 1916 in Wuppertal-Elberfeld, Germany.
Peter Keetman was born in 1916 in Wuppertal-Elberfeld, Germany.
Keetman received his master's credentials in photography in Munich after having studied at the master school of Adolf Lazi in Stuttgart (1950). From 1935 to 1937 he attended the Bavarian State Instructional Institution for Photography in Munich.
A freelance since 1952, Keetman has been closely associated with commercial photographer Nikolai Borg in Munich for the past eighteen years. In 1949 co-founder of FotoForm (together with Otto Steinert, Toni Schneiders a.o.), a group with great impact on the new photography in the 50s and 60s in Germany and abroad.
Keetman is a founding member of Fotoforum, begun in 1949, and has been a member of GDL since 1957 as well as DGPh, Stuttgarter Photographische Gesellschaft and Bund Freischaffender Fotodesigners.