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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2019.2.20
People
Otto Piene, German (Laasphe, Westphalia, Germany 1928 - 2014 Berlin, Germany)
Title
Untitled (animal eating, left page); Untitled (sketches of artist's uncle [Walter Pietschmann], right page)
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Sketchbooks: Childhood and Wartime Sketches
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing, sketchbook page
Date
1941-1944
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/373427

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite and watercolor on paper
Dimensions
open (approx): 15.6 × 43.2 cm (6 1/8 × 17 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: left page, in brown wash: 2.8.44 // [name of animal] friβt / 5.1.44 // OLP.
  • inscription: right page, in graphite: Jugendtage? // Onkel / Walter Pietschmann // Otto-Ludwig Piene / 20.12.1941 // Onkel / Walter Pietschmann / Otto-Ludwig Piene / 20.12.1941

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
2019.2.20
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Pages 39-40

Subjects and Contexts

  • Animating the Page

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