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GERARD PETRUS FIERET (1924-2009) • Girl in textile shop - Javastraat Den Haag • 1970 • vintage, signed, stamped photograph. Unique, rare, vintage piece by Dutch artist Gerard Petrus Fieret. Created, printed, titled and signed in 1970.
Creator:
Gerard Petrus Fieret (1924, The Hague - 2009, The Hague, The Netherlands)
Object:
Vintage photograph, titled Meisje textielwinkel Javastraat Den Haag. The frame is only delivered for free when the photograph is collected in person in Soesterberg, The Netherlands. Insured shipping is for the photograph ONLY (due to the risk of breaking glass).
Country:
The Netherlands
Design period:
1970
Production period:
1970
Identifying marks:
Signature monogram on recto, title and stamps on verso.
Style:
Portrait, realisme, street photography
Condition:
In typical 'Fieret' condition. He was known of using the ground floor as a drawer.
Material:
Gelatin silver print on baryta photographic paper
Colour:
Black & White
Dimensions:
Image: W 18.0 x H 24.0 cm | Matted: W 40.0 x H 50.0 cm
Biography
Gerard Fieret is best known as a photographer. His camera was an extension of his eye, and even a failed photo need not be in vain: what had been captured had been seen. He also wrote, sketches, poems, angry letters - in which he turned out to be his own worst enemy. For years, Gerard Fieret was a well-known appearance in the streets of The Hague. With a wild beard, an Afghan hat and two buckets of pigeon food on the handlebars of his bicycle, he traveled through the city to feed his favorite birds. Few knew that this man was a gifted draftsman, poet, pan flute player, and above all a photographer. Fieret was the personification of the free gaze. He looked around and captured what he saw, Dutch realism, with whom you can also think of photographer Ed van der Elsken. But Van der Elsken was a textbook example of adaptability compared to the curious Fieret, especially when Fieret became more and more paranoid. Now freedom was completely gone. Every print of every photo had to be signed by him in marker or marked with a stamp: this belonged to him and no one else. Even as a poet he did not seem to trust the language, according to a poem such as 'Wolves': 'Wolves everywhere wolves, the robbers of my letters'. He was firmly convinced that most of the Vijftigers, including Gerrit Achterberg, had made a name for themselves with his poems, stolen from him from his home or from the café De Posthoorn in The Hague, where many artists came. He was also suspicious of the Literature Museum. When he handed over his manuscripts, he did so in a special form. He shredded all the paper and caught it in a thick, large, clear plastic bag. Bow around it, tag on it. The letters were broken. The wolves wouldn't stand a chance.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
• H. Barends, C. Maes en Wim van Sinderen eds., Foto en Copyright by G.P. Fieret (Amsterdam en Antwerpen 2004).
• H. Barends en Wim van Sinderen eds., Foto en Copyright by G.P. Fieret. Volume 2. (Amsterdam en Antwerpen 2010).
• F. van Burkom, Gerard Fieret (Haarlem 2010).
• Wim van Sinderen ed., Het onvermoeibaar epos: Fieret-Tichý-Heyboer (Zwolle 2010).
• Els Hansen, Meer zwart dan wit. Herinneringen & brieven aan Gerard Fieret (1924-2009) (Alkmaar 2012).
• Hripsimé Visser, Wim van Sinderen, Violette Gillet, Francesco Zanot, Gerard Petrus Fieret, 2016.
• Frank van den Engel, documentaire Uur van de Wolf, "Foto & Copyright by G.P. Fieret", 2009.
GERARD PETRUS FIERET (1924-2009) • Girl in textile shop - Javastraat Den Haag • 1970 • vintage, signed, stamped photograph. Unique, rare, vintage piece by Dutch artist Gerard Petrus Fieret. Created, printed, titled and signed in 1970.
Creator:
Gerard Petrus Fieret (1924, The Hague - 2009, The Hague, The Netherlands)
Object:
Vintage photograph, titled Meisje textielwinkel Javastraat Den Haag. The frame is only delivered for free when the photograph is collected in person in Soesterberg, The Netherlands. Insured shipping is for the photograph ONLY (due to the risk of breaking glass).
Country:
The Netherlands
Design period:
1970
Production period:
1970
Identifying marks:
Signature monogram on recto, title and stamps on verso.
Style:
Portrait, realisme, street photography
Condition:
In typical 'Fieret' condition. He was known of using the ground floor as a drawer.
Material:
Gelatin silver print on baryta photographic paper
Colour:
Black & White
Dimensions:
Image: W 18.0 x H 24.0 cm | Matted: W 40.0 x H 50.0 cm
Biography
Gerard Fieret is best known as a photographer. His camera was an extension of his eye, and even a failed photo need not be in vain: what had been captured had been seen. He also wrote, sketches, poems, angry letters - in which he turned out to be his own worst enemy. For years, Gerard Fieret was a well-known appearance in the streets of The Hague. With a wild beard, an Afghan hat and two buckets of pigeon food on the handlebars of his bicycle, he traveled through the city to feed his favorite birds. Few knew that this man was a gifted draftsman, poet, pan flute player, and above all a photographer. Fieret was the personification of the free gaze. He looked around and captured what he saw, Dutch realism, with whom you can also think of photographer Ed van der Elsken. But Van der Elsken was a textbook example of adaptability compared to the curious Fieret, especially when Fieret became more and more paranoid. Now freedom was completely gone. Every print of every photo had to be signed by him in marker or marked with a stamp: this belonged to him and no one else. Even as a poet he did not seem to trust the language, according to a poem such as 'Wolves': 'Wolves everywhere wolves, the robbers of my letters'. He was firmly convinced that most of the Vijftigers, including Gerrit Achterberg, had made a name for themselves with his poems, stolen from him from his home or from the café De Posthoorn in The Hague, where many artists came. He was also suspicious of the Literature Museum. When he handed over his manuscripts, he did so in a special form. He shredded all the paper and caught it in a thick, large, clear plastic bag. Bow around it, tag on it. The letters were broken. The wolves wouldn't stand a chance.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
• H. Barends, C. Maes en Wim van Sinderen eds., Foto en Copyright by G.P. Fieret (Amsterdam en Antwerpen 2004).
• H. Barends en Wim van Sinderen eds., Foto en Copyright by G.P. Fieret. Volume 2. (Amsterdam en Antwerpen 2010).
• F. van Burkom, Gerard Fieret (Haarlem 2010).
• Wim van Sinderen ed., Het onvermoeibaar epos: Fieret-Tichý-Heyboer (Zwolle 2010).
• Els Hansen, Meer zwart dan wit. Herinneringen & brieven aan Gerard Fieret (1924-2009) (Alkmaar 2012).
• Hripsimé Visser, Wim van Sinderen, Violette Gillet, Francesco Zanot, Gerard Petrus Fieret, 2016.
• Frank van den Engel, documentaire Uur van de Wolf, "Foto & Copyright by G.P. Fieret", 2009.
GERARD PETRUS FIERET (1924-2009)
Vintage, signed, stamped photograph
1970
Vintage, signed, stamped photograph
1970
€ 1.950,00