Hundertwasser's comment on the work

It was bitter cold, but I wanted to paint with numb fingers - without gloves - until dusk. The opera melody "La donna è mobile" kept going through my head, I don't know why. But this aria has seemed to me to have a connection to this painting ever since. (from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, pp. 93-94)

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VILLA AN DER HIETZINGER ALLEE
Villa at the Hietzinger Allee

Drawing/(Coloured) Pencil, Watercolour
Vienna, 1944
Painted in Vienna, October 21, 1944
150 mm x 200 mm
Pencil and watercolour on drawing paper
Private collection, Vienna

  • A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, pp. 93/94 (and b)
  • Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, 1964, p. 85
  • Albertina, Vienna, 1974, p. 163