APA 194
824 G
STOWASSER - LATEINISCH-DEUTSCHES LEXIKON

Book cover design

Printed in 100 variants:
5 cloth colours: red, yellow, blue, green, brown (each comprising one fifth of the edition, 20 %)
5 metal foils: blue, red, gold, violet, green (each comprising one fifth of the edition, 20 %)
4 colours of thread binding: red, chrome yellow, blue, green (each comprising one quarter of the edition, 25 %)

1994
Verlag Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, Vienna
240 mm x 175 mm
G.G. Buchbinderei, Hollabrunn, Austria
3 Designs für Titel, Rückseite und Rücken / for tile, back cover, spine
Wien / Vienna, Aug. 1992
Nicht signiert / Not signed
Private collection, Vienna
Cover / Title:
186 x 125 mm
Tusche und Aquarell auf Papier / Ink and watercolour on paper
Cover reverse:
185 x 122 mm
Ink and watercolour on paper
Rücken / Spine:
33 x 184 mm
Ink and watercolour on paper

First edition 26,000, annual follow-up edition c. 25,000

KunstHausWien, Vienna

In 1991 the publishing house Verlag Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky approached Hundertwasser, suggesting he design the cover of the new edition of the Latin-German dictionary "Stowasser", 100 years after the first edition of the book by Joseph Maria Stowasser of 1894. Hundertwasser shared the same last name, but no family relationship. The book was introduced at Palais Epstein, the municipal school council for Vienna, on April 26, 1994.

mehr weniger
  • Minoritenkloster, Tulln, 2004
  • Szépmüvészeti Museum, Budapest, 2007/08
  • Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar, 2008
  • Wasserschloss Bad Rappenau, 2008
  • Alcazar Bibliothèque, Marseille, 2012
  • ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishoj, Denmark, 2014
  • KunstHausAbensberg, since 2014
  • Osthaus Museum, Hagen, 2015
  • Kurhaus Hinterzarten, 2015
  • P. Restany, Die Macht der Kunst, Hundertwasser - Der Maler-König mit den fünf Häuten, Cologne, 1998, p. 89 (c) and ed. 2018, p. 90 (c)
  • A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, pp. 1039/1040 (and c)
  • Minoritenkloster, Tulln, 2004, p. 100 (c)
  • A Magical Eccentric, Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, 2007, pp. 127 (c), 180
  • Minoritenkloster, Tulln, 2004, p. 100 (c)
  • A Magical Eccentric, Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, 2007, pp. 127 (c), 180
  • Minoritenkloster, Tulln, 2004, p. 100 (c)
  • A Magical Eccentric, Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, 2007, pp. 127 (c), 180
  • Minoritenkloster, Tulln, 2004, p. 100 (c)
  • A Magical Eccentric, Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, 2007, pp. 127 (c), 180

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