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Hundertwasser's comment on the work

THE DEATH OF THOUSAND WINDOWS
Green Rain Falls
Green Rain Falls Only on Violet Roofs
Green Rain Runs Only over Black Walls
Green Rain Runs into Thousand Dying Windows
Green Rain Fills Thousand Flats with Emerald
The Sun Is Only Beautiful when she Falls
The Sun Is Most Beautiful when it Rains
Windows Are Most Beautiful when They Have A Fever and Die
Water Is Most Beautiful when the Town Drowns in it
Green Is Most Beautiful when Living
Window Panes Sink into Deep Water
The Prairie Covers the Rain with its Green Skin
The Prairie Knows all Thousand Window
sDo Not Stumble over the Waves
Walk over the Prairie with Care so that the Green Does Not Break

1964
translated by Hundertwasser for Catalogue Aberbach Fine Art, New York, 1973

HWG 68
761
a) TAKE CARE WHEN YOU WALK OVER THE PRAIRIE
GIB ACHT WENN DU ÜBER DIE PRÄRIE GEHST
b) THE DEATH OF THOUSAND WINDOWS (Poem)

Gruener Janura AG , Glarus , 1976
470 x 500 mm
298 x 398 mm
a) Colour etching and aquatint in various colours from 2 copper plates
b) Colour etching and aquatint in 2 colours from 1 copper plate (format 505 x 660, plate 300 x 395)
Robert Finger, Vienna, 1976

 214
a) signed and numbered 1-214/214;
XIII proofs, signed and numbered I-XIII/XIII;
XX additional proofs, signed and numbered XIV-XXXIII/XXXIII
b) unsigned, not numbered, with 2 red Japanese seals (inkan) and imprinted Regentag emblem

a) in 2 colour variants:
107 prints in blue, 107 prints in green

Private collection JOMA
Peter Infeld Privatstiftung, Vienna

  • Mönchehaus-Museum für Moderne Kunst, Goslar, 1978
  • Artcurial, Paris, 1980 (a, b)
  • På Sofiero, Helsingborg, 1988
  • since 1991 KunstHausWien, Vienna (a)
  • Kunsthandel - Rene Bernhard, Zurich, 1996/97
  • Sparda-Bank, Stuttgart, 2000/01
  • Kulturelles Forum, Langenfeld, 2002
  • Kulturzentrum am Münster, Konstanz, 2003
  • Rosengarten, Mannheim, 2003/04
  • Haus der Kultur, Halbturn, 2004
  • Kulturzentrum Infeld, Dobrinj, 2005
  • Pinakothek, Bad Ragaz, 2005
  • Ostholstein-Museum, Eutin, 2007
  • Minoritenkloster, Tulln, 2008
  • Kirche zu St.Jakobi,Stralsund,April/May-Oct. 2009-11 (repetitive)
  • The Penthouse Gallery, Ulm, 2013
  • Kunsthalle Messmer, Riegel am Kaiserstuhl, 2014
  • Die Grüne Zitadelle von Magdeburg, Magdeburg, 2015 (a, b)
  • Kurhaus Hinterzarten, 2015 (a, b)
  • Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul, 2016/17 (a, b)
  • Schloss Britz, Berlin, 2017 (a)
  • Musée de Millau et des Grands Causses, Millau, 2018 (a, b)
  • Amberger Congress Centrum, Amberg, 2018
  • *
  • World Travelling Museum Exhibition:
  • Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1978 (a, b)
  • Mücsarnok, Budapest, 1978 (a, b)
  • Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, 1979 (a, b)
  • Seedamm-Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon/Lake Zurich, 1979 (a, b)
  • Palazzo Reale, Milan, 1980 (a, b)
  • Henie/Onstad Stiftelser Kunstsentret, Høvikodden, 1980 (a, b)
  • Secession, Vienna, 1981 (a)
  • Neue Berliner Galerie, East Berlin, 1981 (a, b)
  • Sala Dalles, Bucharest, 1981/82 (a, b)
  • Schipka Gallery, Sofia, 1982 (a, b)
  • Barbican Art Gallery, London, 1983 (a, b)
  • City Art Gallery, York, 1983 (a, b)
  • City Art Centre, Edinburgh, 1983 (a, b)
  • Dum Umení, Brno, 1986 (a)
  • Národní Galerie, Prague, 1986/87 (a)
  • Galerie Umení, Karlovy Vary, 1987 (a)
  • Slovenska Narodna Galeria, Bratislava, 1987 (a)
  • Rupertinum, Salzburg, 1987 (a)
  • *
  • Albertina Travelling Exhibition 1977-1992:
  • Kunst- u. Kunstgewerbev., Reuchlinhaus, Pforzheim, 1977 (a, b)
  • Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, 1977 (a, b)
  • Städtische Galerie Haus Seel, Siegen, 1977 (a, b)
  • Regensburg (a, b)
  • Studio am Rathausplatz, Hameln, 1978 (a, b)
  • Wiesbaden (a, b)
  • Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg, 1978 (a, b)
  • Städtische Galerie Rosenheim, 1978 (a, b)
  • Städtische Galerie Würzburg, 1978 (a, b)
  • Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, 1978 (a, b)
  • Kurpfälzisches Museum Heidelberg, 1978 (a, b)
  • Orangerie des Schlosses Charlottenburg, Berlin, 1978 (a, b)
  • Kunstverein, Oldenburg, 1978/1979 (a, b)
  • Schloß Lichtenberg, Darmstadt, 1979 (a, b)
  • Städt. Gal. Beethovenhaus, Villingen-Schwenningen, 1980 (a, b)
  • Kunstverein Hochrhein, Bad Säckingen, 1980 (a, b)
  • Edwin-Scharff-Museum, Neu-Ulm, 1980 (a, b)
  • Bayer AG, Leverkusen, 1980 (a, b)
  • Kreissparkasse, Heilbronn, 1981 (a, b)
  • Neues Rathaus, Weiden, 1981 (a, b)
  • Rosenthal-Feierabendhaus am Rothbühel, Selb, 1981 (a, b)
  • Galerie Phönix, Ternitz, 1982 (a, b)
  • Palmenhaus, Gmünd, 1982 (a, b)
  • Alpirsbacher Galerie, Alpirsbach, 1982 (a, b)
  • Galerie in Kornhauskeller, Ulm, 1987/88 (a, b)
  • Turmgalerie der Orangerie, Park Sanssouci, Potsdam, 1992 (a,b)
  • *
  • Albertina Travelling Exhibition 1978:
  • Galerie National de Bab Rouah, Rabat, 1978 (a, b)
  • Salle Municipale des Fêtes, Casablanca, 1978 (a, b)
  • *
  • Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, 1979 (a, b)
  • Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis, Porto, 1978 (a, b)
  • *
  • Albertina Travelling Exhibition 1979/80:
  • Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, 1979 (a, b)
  • Museo de Bellas Artes, Valencia, 1979 (a, b)
  • Museo de Bellas Artes, Saragossa, 1979 (a, b)
  • Kulturhalle Hospitalet, Barcelona, 1979/80 (a, b)
  • *
  • Albertina Travelling Exhibition 1979:
  • Castello Mareccio, Bolzano, 1979 (a, b)
  • *
  • Albertina Travelling Exhibition 1980-1982:
  • Centre Culturel de Cordeliers, Chateauroux, 1980 (a, b)
  • Centre Culturel de la Ville, Toulouse, 1980 (a, b)
  • Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg, 1980 (a, b)
  • Musée de la Ville Bourges, 1980 (a, b)
  • Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux, 1980 (a, b)
  • Musée des Beaux-Arts de L'Echevinage, Saintes, 1980 (a, b)
  • Musée de Tesse, Le Mans, 1981 (a, b)
  • Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, 1981 (a, b)
  • Maison de l'étranger, Marseille, 1981 (a, b)
  • Centre Artistique de Rencontres Internationales, Nice, 1982 (a,b
  • *
  • Travelling exhibition 1985/86:
  • Landskrona Museum, 1985 (a, b)
  • Ystad Konstmuseum, 1985 (a, b)
  • Oskarshammer konsthall, 1985/86 (a, b)
  • Jönköpings läns museum, 1986 (a, b)
  • Sandvikens Konsthall, 1986 (a, b)
  • Västerbottens Museum, Umeå, 1986 (a, b)
  • Skaraborgs länsmuseum, Skara, 1986 (a, b)
  • *
  • Travelling exhibition 1989:
  • Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, 1989 (a)
  • Iwaki City Art Museum, 1989 (a)
  • Ohara Museum of Art, 1989 (a)
  • *
  • Travelling exhibition: Hundertwasser...Die Ausstellung:
  • Salzstadel, Regensburg, 2003
  • *
  • ExtraMax Travelling exhibition: Hundertwasser in...
  • Gewerbepark Bartels a. d. Wupper, Radevormwald, 2015
  • Walter Koschatzky, Hundertwasser, Das vollständige druckgraphische Werk 1951-1986, Zürich/Schwäbisch Hall, 1986, p. 161 (c)
  • Harry Rand, Hundertwasser, Cologne, 1991, p. 183 (c) and ed. 1993, p. 157 (c)
  • A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, pp. 853/854 (and c)
  • Kirche zu St. Jakobi, Stralsund, 2011, p. 54 (c)
  • Kunsthalle Messmer, Riegel am Kaiserstuhl, 2014, p. 41 (c)
  • KunstHausAbensberg, Abensberg, 2014, p. 86, 87 (poem) (c)
  • Hundertwasser, The Green City, Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul, 2016, pp. 141 (c), 142 (poem, c), 257
  • ***
  • Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, 1979, cat. 105, 106
  • Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 1980, pp. 403 (c), 404 (c)
  • Secession, Vienna, 1981, pp. 403 (c), 404 (c)
  • Kulturhaus, Graz, 1981, pp. 403 (c), 404 (c)
  • Neue Berliner Galerie, East Berlin, 1981, p. 39
  • Barbican Art Gallery, London, 1983, pp. 523 (c), 524 (c)
  • Travelling exhibition 1985/86: Sweden, cat. 67 and 68
  • Travelling exhibition 1989: Japan, cat. 71 (b)
  • ARTES, Kunst unserer Welt Nr. 8, Angebotskatalog, Rheda-Wiedenbrück, 1986, p. 228 (c)
  • Hundertwasser Calendar 1990, Goro International Press, Tokyo (March/April)
  • Hundertwasser 2004 Calendar, Taschen, Cologne