Hundertwasser's comment on the work

This is the counterpart of 134 99 Heads, in the same format, the same technique, the same kind of wood-particle panel, and I was at pains to treat the subject, "Steamer", in the abstract. (from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, p. 236)

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SINGENDER DAMPFER IN ULTRAMARIN III
Singing Steamer in Ultramarine III

Mixed media
Paris, 1959
Vienna, Obere Donaustrasse 12, autumn - finished in Paris, 1959
670 mm x 2700 mm
Mixed media: egg tempera and oil on fibreboard, primed with chalk, zink white and fish glue
KunstHausWien, Vienna

  • Art-Club, Vienna, 1953
  • Studio Paul Facchetti, Paris, 1954
  • Travelling exhibition 1964/65:
  • Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, 1964
  • Kunsthalle Bern, 1964
  • Karl-Ernst-Osthaus-Museum, Hagen, 1964
  • Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1964
  • Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 1965
  • Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, 1965
  • World Travelling Museum Exhibition:
  • Secession, Vienna, 1981
  • Kulturhaus, Graz, 1981
  • Neue Berliner Galerie, East Berlin, 1981
  • Helsingin kaupungin taidemuseo, Helsinki, 1981
  • Sala Dalles, Bucharest, 1981/82
  • Schipka Gallery, Sofia, 1982
  • Barbican Art Gallery, London, 1983
  • City Art Gallery, York, 1983
  • City Art Centre, Edinburgh, 1983
  • Dum Umení, Brno, 1986
  • Národní Galerie, Prague, 1986/87
  • Galerie Umenì, Karlovy Vary, 1987
  • Slovenska Narodna Galeria, Bratislava, 1987
  • Rupertinum, Salzburg, 1987
  • *
  • Stichting Veranneman, Kruishoutem, 1987
  • Travelling exhibition 1989:
  • Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, 1989
  • Iwaki City Art Museum, 1989
  • Ohara Museum of Art, 1989
  • *
  • KunstHausWien, Vienna, April 1991 - February, 2015
  • KunstHausWien, Vienna, since October, 2015
  • Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, 2015
  • Nationalgalerie, Prag, 2015
  • Y. Shirakura (ed.), Shinchosha's Super Artists: Hundertwasser, Japan 1991, pl. 8 (c, detail), p. 78
  • W. Schmied, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2000, Vol. I, pp. 36/37 (c), 74, 194
  • A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, p. 236 (c)
  • Briefmarkenbuch, Hundertwasser in Wien, Vienna, 2011, p. 44/45/46 (c)
  • Leaflet: Art Club, Vienna, 1953, cat. 6
  • Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, 1964, p. 176
  • Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 1964/65, cat. 57
  • Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, 1965, cat. 22
  • Neue Berliner Galerie, East Berlin, 1981, p. 28
  • Travelling exhibition 1989: Japan, cat. 16 (c)
  • Künstler und Propheten. Eine geheime Geschichte der Moderne 1872 - 1972, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, 2015, pp. 322-323 (c)
  • C. Eldh, Den riskfyllda gemenskapen, Lund, 2004, title (c)