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Otto Piene (°1928)

1928 Born in Laasphe, Germany
Lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany and Groton - Massachusetts, USA

1949-1953 studied painting and art education at the Academy of Art in Munich and the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He was lecturer at the Fashion Institute in Düsseldorf.
1952-1957 studied philosophy at the University of Cologne
1957 Otto Piene and Heinz Mack founded the group ZERO
1959 created the works 'Lichtballette' ("light ballet") and 'Rauchbilder' ("smoke pictures"), referring to elementary natural energies
Exhibited at Documenta, Kassel
1960-1961 Günther Uecker joined the group
1962 Uecker, Mack and Piene began working together in joint studios at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam
1963 together with Günther Uecker and Heinz Mack, he became spokesman of 'Neuen Idealismus' ("the new idealism")
1964 Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania
Exhibited at Documenta, Kassel
1967 German pavilion for the Venice Biennale
1968 along with Aldo Tambellini, he produced 'Black Gate Cologne', which is cited as one of the first television programs produced by experimental visual artists
1968-1971 first Fellow of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
1971 German pavilion for the Venice Biennale
1972 Professor of Environmental Art at MIT
Piene created the sky work 'Olympic Rainbow' for the Summer Olympics in Munich
1974-1994 Director of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS)
1977 Exhibited at Documenta, Kassel
1985 exhibited at the São Paulo Art Biennial
1994 awarded Piene an honorary "Doctor of Fine Arts" by The University of Maryland Baltimore County
1996 received the Sculpture Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
2008 with Otto Piene, Heinz Mack and Mattijs Visser he founded the international ZERO foundation
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