© Foto Courtesy Leopold Museum Vienna

Hundertwasser's comment on the work

I looked in the mirror and saw a strange smile. It was then that I knew that I was one of the greats. (from: Cat. Albertina, Vienna, 1974, p. 88)

JW 135
28
SELBSTPORTRAIT
SELF-PORTRAIT
AUTOPORTRAIT

Drawing/Pastel crayon
1948
Painted in Vienna, Obere Donaustraße, August 1948
620 mm x 430 mm
Pastel crayon on drawing paper
KunstHausWien, Vienna

  • Albertina, Vienna, 1974
  • 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
  • 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, São Paulo, 1977
  • Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, 1977
  • Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, 1978
  • Musée des Beaux-Artes, Montreal, 1978
  • Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1978
  • Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1978
  • Mücsarnok, Budapest, 1978
  • Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, 1979
  • Seedamm-Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon/Lake Zurich, 1979
  • Palazzo Barberini, Rome, 1980
  • Palazzo Reale, Milan, 1980
  • Henie/Onstad Stiftelser Kunstsentret, Høvikodden,1980
  • Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 1980/81
  • Secession, Vienna, 1981
  • Kulturhaus, Graz, 1981
  • Neue Berliner Galerie, East Berlin, 1981
  • Helsingin kaupunging taidemuseo, Helsinki, 1981
  • Sala Dalles, Bucharest, 1981/82
  • Schipka Gallery, Sofia, 1982
  • Barbican Art Gallery, London, 1983
  • City Art Gallery, York, 1983
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  • KunstHausWien, Vienna, April 1991 - 1997
  • Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, 1998
  • *
  • Travelling exhibition 1998/99:
  • Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1998
  • Museum "EKi", Kyoto, 1998
  • Sakura City Museum of Art, Chiba, 1998/99
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  • Travelling exhibition 1999:
  • Takamatsu City Museum of Art, 1999
  • Nagoya City Art Museum, 1999
  • Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, 1999
  • The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, 1999
  • *
  • KunstHausWien, Vienna, Jan. 2001 - Sep. 2006
  • Jüdisches Museum, Rendsburg, 2008
  • Wasserschloss Bad Rappenau, 2008
  • Seoul Arts Center Hangaram Design Museum, Seoul, 2010/11
  • KunstHausWien, Vienna, 2011
  • Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, 2012
  • Le Musée en Herbe, Paris, 2013/14
  • Osthaus Museum, Hagen, 2015
  • Jüdisches Museum, Vienna, 2006/07
  • P. Restany, Die Macht der Kunst, Hundertwasser - Der Maler-König mit den fünf Häuten, Cologne, 1998 and ed. 2018, p. 19 (c)
  • A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, pp. 119/120 (and c)
  • B. Stieff, Hundertwasser für Kinder, Munich, 2007, p. 10 (c)
  • G. Illetschko, Planet Hundertwasser, Munich, 2012, p. 6 (c)
  • Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, 1964, p. 89
  • Albertina, Vienna, 1974, pp 89 (c), 178
  • Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1975, p. 61 (c)
  • Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1975, p. 77 (c)
  • Musée de l'Etat, Luxembourg, 1975, p. 77 (c)
  • Musée Cantini, Marseille, 1975, p. 77 (c)
  • A.S.U. Hall, Cairo, 1975, p. 77 (c)
  • The Tel Aviv Museum, 1976, p. 77 (c)
  • Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw, 1976, p. 61 (c)
  • National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, 1976, p. 67 (c)
  • Supplementary edition Reykjavik, 1976, p. 24
  • Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, 1976, p. 77 (c)
  • Supplementary edition no. 2, Copenhagen, p. 10
  • Musée Dynamique, Dakar, 1976, p. 77 (c)
  • Seibu Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 1977, p. 77 (c)
  • South African National Gallery, Cape Town / Pretoria Art Museum, 1977, p. 77 (c)
  • Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro / Museu de Arte, São Paulo / Palácio Itamaraty, Brasilia, 1977, p. 77 (c)
  • Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, 1977, p. 77 (c)
  • Supplementary edition Caracas, 1977, cat. Dibujos - Acuarelas 24
  • Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, 1978, p. 77 (c)
  • Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montreal, 1978, p. 77 (c)
  • Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1978, p. 77 (c)
  • Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1978, p. 77 (c)
  • Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, 1979, cat. 16, p. 14 (b)
  • Seedamm-Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon/Lake Zurich, 1979, p. 61 (c)
  • Palazzo Barberini, Rome, 1980, p. 77 (c)
  • Sonja Henies og Niels Onstads Stiftelser Kunstsentret, Høvikodden, 1980, p. 77 (c)
  • Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 1980, p. 53 (c)
  • Secession, Vienna, 1981, p. 53 (c)
  • Kulturhaus, Graz, 1981, p. 53 (c)
  • Neue Berliner Galerie, East Berlin, 1981, p. 25
  • Helsingin kaupungin taidemuseo, Helsinki, 1981, p. 77 (c)
  • Barbican Art Gallery, London, 1983, p. 77 (c)
  • Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt 1998, p. 7 (c)
  • Travelling exhibition 1998/99: Japan, p. 34
  • Travelling exhibition 1999: Japan, pp. 26 (c), 122
  • Jüdisches Museum, Vienna, 2006, p. 119 (c)
  • Jüdische Aspekte, Jüdisches Museum, Rendsburg, 2008, pp. 44 (c), 43
  • Leaflet, Wasserschloss Bad Rappenau, 2008 (c)
  • Seoul Arts Center Hangaram Design Museum, Seoul, 2010/11, pp. 50 (c), 226
  • Hundertwasser - Die Kunst des grünen Weges, KunstHausWien, Vienna, 2011, pp. 24 (c), 212
  • Kirche zu St. Jakobi, Stralsund, 2011, p. 14 (c)
  • Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, 2012, p. 51 (c)
  • Dans la peau de Hundertwasser, Le Musée en Herbe, Paris, 2013, pp. 10 (c), 11 (details, c)
  • Hundertwasser Lebenslinien, Osthaus Museum, Hagen, 2015, p. 7 (c)
  • H. Hartwig, Jugendkultur, Reinbek bei Hamburg, 1980, p. 179 (b)
  • G. Habarta, Frühere Verhältnisse, Vienna, 1996, p. 90 (b)
  • Tele, no. 31, 1981, Zurich, p. 81 (c)
  • Hundertwasser 2004 Calendar, Taschen, Cologne
  • Exhibition poster, Wasserschloss Bad Rappenau, 2008 (c)
  • Invitation card, Wasserschloss Bad Rappenau, 2008 (c)