LC control no. | n 50009828 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Piene, Otto, 1928-2014 |
Located | Düsseldorf (Germany) Groton (Mass.) |
Birth date | 1928-04-18 |
Death date | 2014-07-17 |
Place of birth | Bad Laasphe (Germany) |
Place of death | Berlin (Germany) |
Field of activity | Kinetic art Light art Sky art Zero (Group of artists) |
Affiliation | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Advanced Visual Studies University of Pennsylvania |
Profession or occupation | Painters Sculptors Art teachers College teachers |
Found in | Bonn. Städtische Kunstsammlungen. Zero in Bonn, 1966. New York times (online), viewed July 22, 2014 (in obituary published July 18: Otto Piene; b. Apr. 1928, Bad Laasphe; went to the U.S. in 1964; d. Thursday [July 17, 2014], Berlin, where he was attending the opening of a retrospective of his work, aged 86; had homes in Düsseldorf and Groton, Mass.; German painter and sculptor known for his experiments in kinetic art and for working at the junction of art, nature, and technology) |