Hundertwasser's comment on the work

Schoolchildren were singing "In mezzo al mare" (In the middle of the sea) on the beach of the Adriatic. That made me realize that the steamers sing on the silent ocean, too: with their smoke. All the columns of smoke put together make up a song. I never painted a picture in the hut of a Styrian alpine pasture in such a state of enthusiasm. I was afraid I would ruin it by overpainting and left some parts unfinished. For the first time I used the painting technique of shading the edges. I think this is the painting Wolfgang Hutter saw at the Christmas exhibition "Good Pictures for Everyone", where it was on sale for 300 schillings, and he nominated me to be a new member of the Art Club, to which I was admitted one year later. It can thus be justifiably said that it was Wolfgang Hutter who was the first to discover me for the world of art. Hutter is only two days younger than I. He, of all people, the ingenious painter, who was extremely modest, was hit by the full force of the later prejudices of the conformist cultural scene. There was not a single painting of his in a museum! (from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, p. 198)