From the Harvard Art Museums’ collections Sketchbook: Rosenthal Rainbow Mural/Porcelain Designs/Paintings/"Light Satellite" for Munich Olympics

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Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2019.6
People: Otto Piene, German (Laasphe, Westphalia, Germany 1928 - 2014 Berlin, Germany)
Title: Sketchbook: Rosenthal Rainbow Mural/Porcelain Designs/Paintings/"Light Satellite" for Munich Olympics
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: sketchbook
Date: 1971-1975
Culture: German
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/363136

Location

Level 1, Room 1100, Modern and Contemporary Art, The Sixties Experiment/Multiple Strategies
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Physical Descriptions

Medium: Mixed media
Dimensions: 30.5 × 21.6 × 2.5 cm (12 × 8 1/2 × 1 in.)

Provenance

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: 2019.6
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
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Exhibition History

32Q: 1100 60’s Experiment, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/20/2022 - 04/24/2023

Subjects and Contexts

Animating the Page

Related Works

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Otto Piene

Otto Piene Sketchbooks

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Inserted photograph

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Untitled (notes, left page); Untitled (layout for duration of "Silberne Frequenz" in Münster, right page)

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Untitled (layout for duration of "Silberne Frequenz" in Münster, left page); Untitled (notes on duration of "Silberne Frequenz" in Münster, right page)

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Untitled (details for duration of "Silberne Frequenz" in Münster, left page); Untitled (notes on "Silberne Frequenz" in Münster, right page)

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Untitled (details and notes on "Silberne Frequenz" in Münster, left page); Untitled (notes, right page)

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Untitled (notes, left page); Untitled (notes and designs for light sculptures, right page)

Otto Piene

Untitled (notes and designs for light sculptures, left page); Untitled (notes and designs for light sculptures, right page)

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Untitled (notes and designs for light sculptures, left page); Untitled (notes and designs for light sculptures, right page)

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Untitled (calculations, left page); Untitled (calculations, right page)

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Untitled (design and notes, left page); Untitled (budget calculations, right page)

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Untitled (budget calculations, left page); Untitled (budget calculations and notes, right page)

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Untitled (stapled "Light Sculptures" price list atop notes, left page); Untitled (notes on prices for sculptures, right page)

Otto Piene

Untitled (notes, left page); Untitled (calculations and notes, right page)

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Untitled (bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (list of coffee service items, right page)

Otto Piene

Untitled (stapled notes atop designs, left page); Untitled (designs and notes on timing for "neon sculptures," right page)

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Untitled (notes and designs, left page); Untitled (designs and notes on timing for "neon sculptures," right page)

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Untitled (note, left page); Untitled (notes light columns, right page)

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Untitled (bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (notes on rainbow mural, right page)

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Untitled (blank, left page); Untitled (notes and bleed-through of following page, right page)

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Untitled (designs for rainbow mural, two-page spread)

Otto Piene

Untitled (bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (bleed-through of following page, right page)

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Untitled (designs for rainbow mural, two-page spread)

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Untitled (bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (bleed-through of following page, right page)

Otto Piene

Untitled (designs for rainbow mural, two-page spread)

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Untitled (bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (rainbow mural design, right page)

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Untitled (bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (bleed-through of following page, right page)

Otto Piene

Untitled (design for rainbow mural with notes, two-page spread)

Otto Piene

Untitled (bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (bleed-through of following page, right page)

Otto Piene

Untitled (designs for rainbow mural with notes, two-page spread)

Otto Piene

Untitled (bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (color transfer, right page)

Otto Piene

Untitled (color transfer, left page); Untitled (notes, right page)

Otto Piene

Untitled (blank, left page); Untitled (notes, right page)

Otto Piene

Untitled (note and color transfer, left page); Untitled (wall paint tests and samples, right page)

Otto Piene

Untitled (wall paint samples, left page); Untitled (wall paint samples, right page)

Otto Piene

Untitled (adhered photographs of chairs, left page); Untitled (notes and bleed-through of following page, right page)

Otto Piene

Untitled (designs for Rosenthal chair decals and bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (designs for Rosenthal chair decals, right page)