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Otto Piene (18 April 1928 – 17 July 2014) was a German artist. He lived and worked in Düsseldorf and Groton, Massachusetts. ==Biography== Otto Piene was born 1928 in Bad Laasphe and was raised in Lübbecke. Between 1949 and 1953 he 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. From 1952 to 1957 he studied philosophy at the University of Cologne. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania beginning in 1964. From 1968 to 1971, he was the first Fellow of the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS), founded by György Kepes. In 1972, he became a Professor of Environmental Art at MIT. In 1974 he succeeded Kepes as director of the CAVS, in which position he served until September 1, 1993. With Günther Uecker, Heinz Mack and Mattijs Visser he founded in 2008 the international ZERO foundation. The foundation has the ZERO archives from the three Düsseldorfer artists as well as documents and photos from other related artists. Piene died on July 17, 2014 while in a taxi on his way to continue preparations for a "Sky Art Event" at Neue Nationalgalerie.〔(German artist Otto Piene dies aged 86 ) ''BBC News'', 18 July 2014.〕 His survivors included his wife, the former Elizabeth Goldring, a poet and artist who also worked on ''Centerbeam'', as well as four children, a stepdaughter and five grandchildren.〔Bruce Weber and Melissa Eddy (July 18, 2014), (Otto Piene, German Artist of New Modes, Dies at 85 ) ''New York Times''.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Otto Piene」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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