ARCH 25/I
EYE-SLIT HOUSE
Architecture model no. 1 of 12
Wien / Vienna, 1974
42 cm x 100 cm x 100 cm
Balsa wood
Peter Manhardt
- Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1975
- World Travelling Museum Exhibition:
- Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1975
- Musée de l'Etat, Luxembourg, 1975
- Musée Cantini, Marseille, 1975
- A.S. U. Hall, Cairo, 1975
- The Tel Aviv Museum, 1976
- Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw, 1976
- National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, 1976
- Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, 1976
- Musée Dynamique, Dakar, 1976
- Seibu Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 1977
- Yokohama Citizen's Gallery, 1977
- Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1977
- South African National Gallery, Cape Town, 1977
- Pretoria Art Museum, 1977
- Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, 1977
- Museu de Arte, Sao Paulo, 1977
- Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, 1977
- Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, 1978
- Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montreal, 1978
- Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1978
- Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1978
- Mücscarnok, Budapest, 1978
- Museo Espanol de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, 1979
- Seedamm Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon/Lake Zurich, 1979
- Palazzo Barberini, Rome, 1980
- Palazzo Reale, Milan, 1980
- Henie/Onstad Stiftelser Kunstsentret, Hovikodden,1980
- Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 1980/81
- Secession, Vienna, 1981
- Kulturhaus, Graz, 1981
- Neue Berliner Galerie, East Berlin, 1981
- Helsingin kaupungin taidemuseo, Helsinki, 1981
- Sala Dalles, Bucharest, 1981/82
- Schipka gallery, Sofia, 1982
- Barbican Art Gallery, London, 1983
- City Art Gallery, York, 1983
- City Art Centre, Edinburgh, 1983
- Travelling exhibition 1985/86:
- Landskrona Museum, 1985/86
- Ystad konstmuseum, 1985/86
- Oskarshammer konsthall, 1985/86
- Jönköpings läns museum, 1985/86
- Sandvikens konsthall, 1985/86
- Västerbottens museum, Umea, 1985/86
- Skaraborgs läns museum, Skara, 1985/86
- IDEA Designcenter, Schrems, 2001-2003
- Kunsthal Rotterdam, 2004
- Minoritenkloster, Tulln, 2008
- Fernwärme Wien (Hundertwasser Path), Vienna, 2009
- Le Musée en Herbe, Paris, 2013/14
- ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishoj, Denmark, 2014
- Galerien Maximilianstraße, Munich, 1978
- Schallaburg, Lower Austria, 2016
- W. Schurian (ed.), Schöne Wege, Munich, 1983, p. 275 (b)
- J.F. Mathey, Hundertwasser, Naefels and Munich, 1985/Bindlach, 1992, p. 82 (b)
- Das Hundertwasser Haus, Vienna, 1985, p. 88 (c)
- H. Rand, Hundertwasser, Cologne, 1991, p. 173 (c) and ed. 1993, p. 151 (c)
- Hundertwasser Architektur, Cologne, 1996, p. 98 (c) and ed. 2006, p. 78 (c), 311
- A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, pp. 1194/1195 (and c)
- B. Stieff, Hundertwasser für Kinder, Munich, 2007, p. 56 (c)
- G. Illetschko, Planet Hundertwasser, Munich, 2012, p. 101 (c)
- Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1975, p. 375 (c)
- Word Travelling Museum Exhibition:
- Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1975, pp. 501 (c), 526 (c)
- Musée de L'Etat, Luxembourg, 1975, p. 367 (c)
- Musée Cantini, Marseille, 1975, p. 393 (c)
- A.S.U. Hall, Cairo, 1975, p. 367 (c)
- The Tel Aviv Museum, 1976, p. 391 (c)
- Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw, 1976, p. 375 (c)
- National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, 1976, p. 333 (c)
- Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, 1976, p. 501 (c)
- Musée Dynamique, Dakar, 1976, p. 501 (c)
- Seibu Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 1977, p. 391 (c)
- South African National Gallery, Cape Town/Pretoria Art Museum, 1977, p. 391 (c)
- Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro/Museu de Arte, Sao Paulo/Palácio Itamaraty, Brasilia, 1977, p. 391 (c)
- Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, 1977, p. 391 (c)
- Museo de Arte Moderno, México City, 1978, p. 391 (c)
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, 1978, p. 501 (c)
- Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1978, p. 391 (c)
- Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1978, p. 501 (c)
- Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, 1979, cat. 181, p. 41 (b)
- Seedamm-Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon/Lake Zurich, 1979, p. 375 (c)
- Palazzo Barberini, Rome, 1980, p. 391 (c)
- Palazzo Reale, Milan, 1980 (b)
- Sonja Henies og Niels Onstads Stiftelser Kunstsentret, Hovikodden, 1980, p. 391 (c)
- Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 1980, p. 479 (c)
- Secession, Vienna, 1981, p. 479 (c)
- Kulturhaus, Graz, 1981, p. 479 (c)
- Neue Berliner Galerie, East Berlin, 1981, p. 40
- Helsingin kaupungin taidemuseo, Helsinki, 1981, p. 391 (c)
- Sala Dalles, Bucharest, 1981, p. 34 (c)
- Barbican Art Gallery, London, 1983, p. 391 (c)
- Czechoslovakia, 1986/87 (b) **
- Architektur - Räume - Projekte, Galerien Maximilianstraße, Munich, 1978 (b)
- Travelling exhibition 1985/86: Sweden, cat. 87
- Travelling exhibition 1999: Japan, p. 64 (c)
- IDEA Designcenter, Schrems, 2001, cat. 4 (c)
- Leaflet: Kunsthal Rotterdam, 2004 (c)
- Travelling Exhibition Japan, 2006, p. 110-111 (c)
- Dans la peau de Hundertwasser, Le Musée en Herbe, Paris, 2013, pp. 36/37 (c), 39 (detail, c)
- pardon, no. 2, Feb. 1977, Frankfurt, p. 20 (c)
- The Mother Earth News, no. 50, March / April, 1978, Hendersonville / N.C., p. 116 (c)
- Casa Vogue, no. 128, March 1982, Milan, p. 216 (c)
- Detail, Zeitschrift für Architektur + Baudetail, nr. 5, Sept./Oct. 1983, Munich, p. 423 (b)
- Kunst + Unterricht, April 1984, Seelze, p. 54 (b)
- Mücke, no. 1, Jan. 1986, Wiesbaden (cover, c)
- Japan Landscape, no. 26, 1993, Tokyo, pp. 10-11 (c)
Hundertwasser's comment on the work
This is a house for one family only, so totally integrated into nature that it is practically invisible, particularly useful for farmers or in landscape reserves. The glass front faces the sun; the roof, which blends into nature, points to the cold north. One can walk through the landscape without realising that one is walking on roofs. Such a house is very bright and sunny, more so than a normal house, because it has large windows towards the sun and cupolas which let in the light from above, and the ventilation is excellent, and such a house, after insulation, is drier than a normal house. It is more healthful because the grass plot protects the house against all evil. There is nothing more beautiful than to go for a walk over one's own house.
(from: Hundertwasser Architecture, Cologne, 1997, p. 98)