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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2019.2.17
People
Otto Piene, German (Laasphe, Westphalia, Germany 1928 - 2014 Berlin, Germany)
Title
Untitled ("Our Building", left page); Untitled (dog, right page)
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Sketchbooks: Childhood and Wartime Sketches
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing, sketchbook page
Date
1941-1943
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/373424

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite, black ink, and blue ink on paper
Dimensions
open (approx): 15.6 × 43.2 cm (6 1/8 × 17 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: left page, in black ink: Unser Bau // Oerlinghausen 19.7.43 // OLP.
  • inscription: left page, l.c., in graphite: Segelfluglager
  • inscription: right page, in blue ink: TEMBU // Otto-Ludwig Piene / Lübbecke, am 21.7.1941

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
2019.2.17
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Pages 33-34

Publication History

  • Anette Kuhn, ZERO-Künstler Otto Piene: Aus dem Kriegsdunkel zur Lichtkunst, wbv Publikation (Bielefeld, Germany, 2023), pp. 12, 15, fig. 5, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • Otto Piene: Paths to Paradise, Museum Tinguely, Basel, 02/07/2024 - 05/12/2024

Subjects and Contexts

  • Animating the Page

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