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ROITEN VILLAGE MUSEUM
Architecture Redesign Redesign of the old cold-storage depot into a village museum
Concepts, model, work on site
1987 - 1988
Roiten, 3911 Rappottenstein, Waldviertel, A
On the initiative of Hermann Neulinger, Roiten
- Hundertwasser Architektur, Cologne, 1996, p. 313 (c) and ed. 2006, p. 304 (c), 312
- R. Schediwy, Hundertwassers Häuser, Vienna, 1999, p. 241
- A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, pp. 1238/1239 (and c)
- M. Stürmer, Hundertwasser Kunstbauwerke in Österreich, Vienna, 2004, pp. 44-47 (and c)
- IDEA Designcenter, Schrems, 2001 (c)
- Leaflet, Dorfmuseum Roiten, Rappottenstein, 2010 (c)
- Unser Waldviertel, no. 3, 2000, Schrems, p. 13 (c)
Hundertwasser's comment on the work
Even today people are destroying and selling valuable belongings or burning them as fuel: valuable furniture of our ancestors, doors and windows lovingly fashioned by our fathers, replacing them with worthless, ugly and harmful plastic and aluminium. Bulging house walls, venerable witnesses of our creative past lived close to nature, are demolished, industrially smoothed out and made lethally sterile. Through this suicidal destruction we are losing our home (heimat). (...) Harking back to our past has become a necessity for survival.
If our roots are cut off, we are condemned to extinction. (...) That is why it is so extraordinarily important that our past be documented, to show that the life of our ancestors had meaning and value in the context of our heimat. (...)
(Hundertwasser in his speech at the founding of the Roiten Village Museum, September 11, 1987)
(from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, p. 1238)