2019.2.27: Untitled (portrait of young man, left page); Untitled (sketch of woman on street, right page)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2019.2.27

People

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

Title

Untitled (portrait of young man, left page); Untitled (sketch of woman on street, right page)

Other Titles

Series/Book Title: Sketchbooks: Childhood and Wartime Sketches

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

sketchbook page, drawing

Date

1943

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/373434

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, l.c., in graphite: OLP 24.6.43
• inscription: right page, l.r., in graphite: Bombenflüchtling / OLP. Bielefeld Bhf. / 25.6.43

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

2019.2.27

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request.

Descriptions

Description

Pages 53-54

Publication History

• Anette Kuhn, ZERO-Künstler Otto Piene: Aus dem Kriegsdunkel zur Lichtkunst, wbv Publikation (Bielefeld, Germany, 2023), pp. 15, 18, fig. 6, ill. (color)

Subjects and Contexts

• Animating the Page

Related Works

• 2019.2

  Otto Piene

  Sketchbook: Childhood and Wartime Sketches

  Drawings

Verification Level