2019.2.1: Untitled (front endpaper with signature and address, left page); Untitled (portrait in profile of the artist's father, right page)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2019.2.1

People

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

Title

Untitled (front endpaper with signature and address, left page); Untitled (portrait in profile of the artist's father, right page)

Other Titles

Series/Book Title: Sketchbooks: Childhood and Wartime Sketches

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing, sketchbook page

Date

1943

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/373406

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite, colored pencil, and adhesive label on paper

Dimensions

open (approx): 15.6 × 43.2 cm (6 1/8 × 17 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: left page, c.c., in graphite: 1- / Otto Piene ([graphic "signature" OP]) / Lübbecke i. / W. / Osterstr. 61 / Weihnachten 1938
• manufacturer's mark: left page, u.l., text on sticker: WB 5/30 L Günther Wagner / Pelikan / Skizzenbuch Nr. WB5/30: / (Din A5 = 14,8 x 21 cm) / GÜNTHER WAGNER / Hannover und Wien
• inscription: right page, l.r., in graphite: mein Vater / 31.5.1939 / OP. [graphic signature]

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

2019.2.1

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Pages 1-2

Subjects and Contexts

• Animating the Page

Related Works

• 2019.2

  Otto Piene

  Sketchbook: Childhood and Wartime Sketches

  Drawings

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