ARCH 44/XIII
HUNDERTWASSER HOUSE FOUNTAIN
Fountain in front of the Hundertwasser House
Vienna, 1985
Kegelgasse, 1030 Vienna, A
The fountain comprises five parts placed one on top of the other:
1. a concrete basin,
2. a ceramic basin with matte white, black and grey portions,
3. a concrete-casting basin,
4. a smaller pink ceramic basin and
5. a concrete-casting angel on top.
The model is the classical Roman fountain (from: Hundertwasser Architecture, Cologne, 1997, p. 280)
The signs of the zodiac are inlayed into the bottom of the fountain in mosaic.
- Hunderwasser Architektur, Cologne, 1985, p. 281 (c)
- A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, pp. 1226/1227 (and c)
- Lebensträume, Gilching, 2003, pl. 11 (c)
- Hundertwasser Architektur, Cologne, 2006, pp. 202/203 (c)
- DDSG (ed.), Hundertwasser - Otto Wagner Tour, Vienna, 1991, p. 11 (detail, c)
- SINRA MAGAZINE, nr. 6, June 1994, Tokyo, p. 65 (c)
- Meridiani Vienna, ANNO XIII-XIV, no. 94, Dec. 2000, Rozzano, p. 122/123 (c)