2019.5: Sketchbook: Postwar Studies

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2019.5

People

Otto Piene, German (Laasphe, Westphalia, Germany 1928 - 2014 Berlin, Germany)

Title

Sketchbook: Postwar Studies

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

sketchbook

Date

1948 - c.1957

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/363135

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Mixed media

Dimensions

16 × 21.8 × 1 cm (6 5/16 × 8 9/16 × 3/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: Center, in graphite:: Otto Ludwig / Piene / Lübbecke, Westfalen / Auf den Weingarten 20
• inscription: U.c., in faint graphite:: 44 60 41 [telephone number]
• inscription: U.l., in faint graphite:: 10 x 12
• inscription: C.r., in faint graphite:: 52
• inscription: L.c., in faint graphite:: Galerie Schmela / 44 34 10 [telephone number]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Elizabeth Goldring Piene, gift; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2018.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Elizabeth Goldring Piene

Copyright

© Otto Piene Estate

Accession Year

2019

Object Number

2019.5

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Subjects and Contexts

• Animating the Page

Related Digital Tours

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  Animating the Page: Otto Piene and the Artist Sketchbook

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