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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
sketchbook page, drawing
Date
1943-1944
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
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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

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