Sale: 600 / Evening Sale, Dec. 05. 2025 in Munich 
Lot 125001176
Lot 125001176 
125001176
Otto Piene
Lichtfeld V (Rasterbild), 1959.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 150,000 - 250,000
$ 174,000 - 290,000
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Lichtfeld V (Rasterbild). 1959.
Oil on canvas.
Twice signed and dated on the reverse of the folded canvas, as well as titled “Lichtfeld V”. Typographically inscribed “lichtfeld V” on a label on the side. cm (68 x 96 in).
• Otto Piene and the ZERO group were at the heart of the international avant-garde movement of the late 1950s.
• Exemplary early grid painting.
• 1959: The year of what is probably the most significant “ZERO” exhibition ever: “Vision in Motion - Motion in Vision” (Hessenhuis, Antwerp).
• In the same year, Piene exhibited at the documenta for the first time (documenta II).
• Other works by the artist from this period can be found in the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main (Rasterbild, 1959), the Museum of Modern Art, New York (Untitled, 1959), and the Centre Pompidou, Paris (Pure Energy III, 1959)).
PROVENANCE: Günter Meisner Collection, Berlin
Private collection, Berlin (inherited from the above in 1994)
Private collection, Rhineland (acquired from the above in 2022).
"I want my pictures to be bright, brighter than the present world."
(Heinz Mack, Otto Piene u. Günther Uecker, Zero. Der neue Idealismus (Manifesto), 1963)
Oil on canvas.
Twice signed and dated on the reverse of the folded canvas, as well as titled “Lichtfeld V”. Typographically inscribed “lichtfeld V” on a label on the side. cm (68 x 96 in).
• Otto Piene and the ZERO group were at the heart of the international avant-garde movement of the late 1950s.
• Exemplary early grid painting.
• 1959: The year of what is probably the most significant “ZERO” exhibition ever: “Vision in Motion - Motion in Vision” (Hessenhuis, Antwerp).
• In the same year, Piene exhibited at the documenta for the first time (documenta II).
• Other works by the artist from this period can be found in the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main (Rasterbild, 1959), the Museum of Modern Art, New York (Untitled, 1959), and the Centre Pompidou, Paris (Pure Energy III, 1959)).
PROVENANCE: Günter Meisner Collection, Berlin
Private collection, Berlin (inherited from the above in 1994)
Private collection, Rhineland (acquired from the above in 2022).
"I want my pictures to be bright, brighter than the present world."
(Heinz Mack, Otto Piene u. Günther Uecker, Zero. Der neue Idealismus (Manifesto), 1963)
125001176
Otto Piene
Lichtfeld V (Rasterbild), 1959.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 150,000 - 250,000
$ 174,000 - 290,000
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
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