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Otto Piene Biography
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1928 |
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Born in Laasphe, Westfalen, Germany
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1948 - 1953 |
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Studies at the Blocherer Schule
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1948 - 1953 |
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Kunstakademie Munich
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1948 - 1953 |
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Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
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1953 - 1957 |
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Studied philosophy at the University of Cologne
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1957 |
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Foundation of the artist group ZERO together with Heinz Mack and Günther Uecker
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1959 |
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Prize, Deutsche Kunst, Baden-Baden, Germany
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1960 |
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Participation at Documenta 2 in Kassel
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1963 |
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Grand Prize for Group ZERO, IV Biennale Internazionale d'Arte, San Marino, Italy
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1964 |
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Participation at Documenta 3 in Kassel
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1967 |
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Prize, International Exhibitions of Graphic Art, Ljublijana, Yugoslavia
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1964 - 1968 |
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teaching activity at the University of Pennsylvania
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1968 |
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Center for Advanced Visual Studies
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1968 |
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Konrad von Soest Prize, Munster, Germany
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1969 |
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Prize, International Exhibitions of Graphic Art, Ljublijana, Yugoslavia
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1970 |
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Prize, Ile Exposition International de Dessins Originaux, Rijeka, Yugoslavia
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1972 |
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Professorship at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge
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1972 |
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Prize of the National Museum of Modern art, The Eighth International Biennial Exhibition of Prints in Tokyo, Japan
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1976 |
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Prize, International Graphics Biennale, Frederikstad, Norway
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1977 |
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Participation at Documenta 6 in Kassel
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1974 - 1994 |
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Director of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies
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1994 |
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Honorary doctorate at Maryland University
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1996 |
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Sculpture Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
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2003 |
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UNESCO Joan Miro Medal, presented at the Bremen Kunsthalle, Germany
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2003 |
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Leonardo da Vinci World Art Prize from Consejo Cultural Mundial of Mexico City
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Lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany and Cambridge, Massachusetts
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2010
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Otto Piene – Le Rouge et le Noir / Keramiken, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren, Germany
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2009 - 2010
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Es werde Licht, Kunstverein Langenfeld, Germany
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2009
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Galerie Bode,Nuremberg, Germany (solo)
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2008 - 2009
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Verwandlung, Kunstmuseum Celle mit Sammlung Robert Simon K., Germany
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2008
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Otto Piene, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
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2001
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Lichtjahre 1957–2001, Kunstmuseum Celle mit Sammlung Robert Simon, Celle, Germany
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1996
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Otto Piene – Retrospektive 1952–1996, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf im Ehrenhof, Düsseldorf, Germany
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1985
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German pavilion at the Biennial in Sao Paulo, Brasil
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1977
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documenta 6, Kassel, Germany
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1972
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Sky Installation Pax for the Olympic Summer Games in Munich, Germany
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1971
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German pavilion at the Biennial in Venice, Italy
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1967
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German pavilion at the Biennial in Venice, Italy
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1959
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documenta 2, Kassel, Germany
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| Literature |
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1999
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Susanne Rennert, Stephan von Wiese (Hrsg.): Otto Piene – Sky Art 1968–1996, Wienand, Köln 1999
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1989
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Karl Ruhrberg (Hrsg.): Zeitzeichen. Stationen Bildender Kunst in Nordrhein-Westfalen. DuMont, Köln 1989
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