Rune Mields, Self-Taught German Conceptual Artist, Dies at 91

Self-taught German conceptual artist Rune Mields died on June 27 in Cologne, Germany, at the age of 91. Her death was first reported by the German Press Agency.Born in Münster in 1935, Mields came to art-making in her 30s after completing an apprenticeship as a bookseller. She first gained attention for her “Röhrenbilder” (Pipe Paintings) of the late 1960s and early ’70s, large-format monochrome canvases featuring hyperreal renderings of three-dimensional geometric fo