Hundertwasser's comment on the work

Nature is beautiful. Art is beautiful. Both belong together.
You are walking happily into the nature and bringsomething with you that delights both humans and nature. A beautiful stick to walk with a round knob in many colours and a colourful bundle cloth to carry things.
When you spread it out in the shadow to have a rest on green moss in the woods in the mountains on a merrily rushing stream, then the bundlecloth fits the tree and the walking-stick fits the flowers and the whole world fits together again.
You can walk with it as far as Japan. There the bundlecloth is called Furoshiki. 
Hundertwasser, Kaurinui Valley, June 4, 1994 

Monocolour print of a mirror image of 887 Tropical Chinese. By leaving things out one can achieve incredible effects.
(from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, p. 1107)

APA 339
949
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Bundle cloth and walking stick

Bundle cloth, c. 110 x 110 cm
Silkscreen print in 9 colours
produced by Rueff Textildruck, Muntlix, Austria

Walking stick, 90 cm, stained wood in 3 colour variants: red, green, blue
Produced by Hermann Neulinger, Roiten, Lower Austria
Reproduced for KunstHausWien MuseumShop, Vienna

1994
Design for Bundle Cloth
Vienna, January 1994
69.3 x 69.3 cm
Watercolour on paper
Not signed
Private collection, Vienna

Donated to the Austrian National Tourist Office for the initiative "Bewanderbares Österreich" (Wanderful Austria).

mehr weniger
  • A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, pp. 1105 (and c), 1107
  • Regentag-Wassergläser für das Leben, Vienna, 2011, Front and Back end-papers (c)