Sketchbook: Light Sculptures/Poster Designs/“Flying People”/Dresden/Maine/Greece

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Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2019.60
People: Otto Piene, German (Laasphe, Westphalia, Germany 1928 - 2014 Berlin, Germany)
Title: Sketchbook: Light Sculptures/Poster Designs/“Flying People”/Dresden/Maine/Greece
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: sketchbook
Date: 1999-2000
Culture: German
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/363188

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Mixed media
Dimensions: 35.5 × 28.4 × 3 cm (14 × 11 3/16 × 1 3/16 in.)

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: 2019.60
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: Pages

Publication History

Lisa Crossman and Candice Bancheri, ed., Fire and Light: Otto Piene in Groton 1983-2014, exh. cat., Fitchburg Art Museum (Fitchburg, MA, 2019), n.p., ill. of gallery installation

Exhibition History

Fire and Light: Otto Piene in Groton, 1983-2014, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, 02/09/2019 - 06/02/2019

Subjects and Contexts

Animating the Page

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2019.60: Sketchbook: Light Sculptures/Poster Designs/“Flying People”/Dresden/Maine/Greece

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