Hundertwasser's comment on the work

While I was painting the village from above up near the "Nose", the ascent to Leopoldsberg, the air-raid siren sounded. I decided to stay in the sparse forest. Suddenly there was a rustling of the tattered leaves, and shrapnel smashed into the ground all around me. I held my drawing case over my head. I could have been dead. I brought a big piece of shrapnel home as a souvenir.(from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, p. 88)

JW 44
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DONAU BEI KAHLENBERGERDORF
Danube near Kahlenbergerdorf

Drawing/(Coloured) Pencil, Watercolour
Vienna, 1944
Painted in Vienna, from Leopoldsberg, July 1, 1944
200 mm x 280 mm
Pencil and watercolour on drawing paper
Private collection, Vienna

  • Jüdisches Museum, Rendsburg, 2008
  • Wasserschloss Bad Rappenau, 2008
  • Seoul Arts Center Hangaram Design Museum, Seoul, 2010/11
  • KunstHausWien, since February 2013
  • A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, pp. 88/89 (and b)
  • G. Illetschko, Planet Hundertwasser, Munich, 2012, p. 11 (c)
  • Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, 1964, p. 85
  • Albertina, Vienna, 1974, p. 160
  • Jüdische Aspekte, Jüdisches Museum, Rendsburg, 2008, pp. 12 (b), 40
  • Seoul Arts Center Hangaram Design Museum, Seoul, 2010/11, pp. 44-45 (and c), 226