2019.2.24: Untitled (animal sleeping, left page); Untitled (portrait of male figure, right page)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2019.2.24

People

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

Title

Untitled (animal sleeping, left page); Untitled (portrait of male figure, right page)

Other Titles

Series/Book Title: Sketchbooks: Childhood and Wartime Sketches

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing, sketchbook page

Date

1943-1944

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/373431

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on paper

Dimensions

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

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: left page, in graphite: Schlafen [animal's name] in allen Lebens / bzw. Kӧreper -- bzw. Unterlegen [?] // 8.1.44
• inscription: right page, in graphite: Bei Lampenleucht / gezeichnet // Vater / 1.1.1943 / OLP.

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

2019.2.24

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Pages 47-48

Publication History

• Anette Kuhn, ZERO-Künstler Otto Piene: Aus dem Kriegsdunkel zur Lichtkunst, wbv Publikation (Bielefeld, Germany, 2023), pp. 13-14, fig. 3, ill. (color)

Subjects and Contexts

• Animating the Page

Related Works

• 2019.2

  Otto Piene

  Sketchbook: Childhood and Wartime Sketches

  Drawings

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