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Otto Piene was born in Laasphe in Westphalia in 1928 and grew up in Lübbecke. After military service and war captivity Piene began his studies at the Blocher School and at the Kunstakademie in Munich at the age of 20.

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Two years later he went to the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf where he was enrolled until 1953. Then followed a four-year degree in philosophy at the university of Cologne. Piene began studying the element of light in art around the mid 1950s. He had exhibitions from 1955 onwards, first group exhibitions and, in 1959, his first one-man exhibition at the Galerie Schmela in Düsseldorf.

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Together with Heinz Mack Piene founded the group ZERO in 1957. The group was later also joined by Günther Uecker. Until 1961 the three artists published the art journal ZERO. The group organised numerous ZERO-exhibitions between 1961 and 1966. They exhibited a ZERO Lichtraum, a joint work of the three artists, at the documenta III in 1964.

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