Hundertwasser's comment on the work

Diary 1946: Slept from 5 to 8 A.M. Every day help with bringing in fodder. (Harvest was already over.) Mowing aftermath, spreading it out, etc. 3 days cleaning out thrashing machine. Shoving fodder and hay through a hole in the top floor into horse stable, digging potatoes, gathering fruit, helping with pressing cider. (from: Cat. Albertina, Vienna, 1974, p. 80)After the war children from the city were sent to farmers in the country for their health. (from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, p. 104)

JW 83
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TRAUNSTEIN IM HINTERGRUND
Traunstein in the Background

Drawing/(Coloured) Pencil
Wulfing, 1946
Painted from Salfinger's farm at Wulfing, Upper Austria, August 11, 1946
300 mm x 400 mm
Pencil on poor-quality drawing paper
Private collection, Vienna

  • Albertina, Vienna, 1974
  • A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, p. 104 (b)
  • Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, 1964, p. 88
  • Albertina, Vienna, 1974, pp. 81 (c), 168