Look at it on a rainy day
Friedensreich Hundertwasser (Wien 1928 - vor Australien 2000)
Lot-No. 355
1971/72. Ten silk screens in colours, partially with metal embossing and applied glass dust cover. 49 x 67 cm. One handsign., num. and dat. 21. Januar 1972 Grüntal Hundertwasser Regentag 297, all num. 297/3000, nine framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. Original elaborately designed wooden box sign. and num. on the inside Hundertwasser 297 - Painter, architect and ecologist, most prominent exponent of the 'Neue Wiener Schule' who became world famous with his organically shaped buildings and his colourful paintings. In 1948 H. studied under R. C. Andersen at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste for three months, 1949 he started using the name 'Hundertwasser', and in 1951 he became a member of the 'Art Club Wien'. H's career was dominated by international exhibitions in France, Italy, Tahiti, Japan, and the USA amongst others. Throughout his career H. received a variety of awards, the Großer Österreichischer Staatspreis and the Nature Conservation Price in 1981. Mus.: Wien (Albertina), New York (MoMA) Lit.: Schmied-Fürst: F. H. a. others.
Friedensreich Hundertwasser: Look at it on a rainy day
Friedensreich Hundertwasser (Wien 1928 - vor Australien 2000)
Look at it on a rainy day
Lot-No. 355
1971/72. Ten silk screens in colours, partially with metal embossing and applied glass dust cover. 49 x 67 cm. One handsign., num. and dat. 21. Januar 1972 Grüntal Hundertwasser Regentag 297, all num. 297/3000, nine framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. Original elaborately designed wooden box sign. and num. on the inside Hundertwasser 297 - Painter, architect and ecologist, most prominent exponent of the 'Neue Wiener Schule' who became world famous with his organically shaped buildings and his colourful paintings. In 1948 H. studied under R. C. Andersen at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste for three months, 1949 he started using the name 'Hundertwasser', and in 1951 he became a member of the 'Art Club Wien'. H's career was dominated by international exhibitions in France, Italy, Tahiti, Japan, and the USA amongst others. Throughout his career H. received a variety of awards, the Großer Österreichischer Staatspreis and the Nature Conservation Price in 1981. Mus.: Wien (Albertina), New York (MoMA) Lit.: Schmied-Fürst: F. H. a. others.
