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LE SCARABEE DU DEBUT
DER KÄFER DES ANFANGS - GEDANKE IN DER NACHT
The Beetle of the Beginning - Thought at Night
Vienna, 1957
Painted in Paris, April 1956 - finished in Vienna, January 1957
620 mm x 450 mm
Mixed media: In 1956 begun as a watercolour on wrapping paper, primed with chalk, zinc white and fish glue. In 1957 mounted on canvas and finished with watercolour, oil and chrysochrome blue.
Herbert Liaunig Privatstiftung
- Galerie St. Stephan, Vienna, 1957
- 31st Venice Biennial, 1962
- Galerie Änne Abels, Cologne, 1963
- Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1975
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- World Travelling Museum Exhibition:
- Secession, Vienna, 1981
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- Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Orangerie, Vienna, 2013
- Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, 2013/14
- Staatliches Kunstmuseum, Baden-Baden, 1959
- Kunstverein, Cologne, 1964
- A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, p. 310 (c)
- Leaflet: Galerie St. Stephan, Vienna, 1957, cat. 23
- XXXI. Biennale di Venezia, Austria, 1962, cat. 22
- Galerie Änne Abels, Cologne, 1963, pl. 8 (c)
- Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, 1964, pp. 62 (c), 152
- Kunstverein, Cologne, 1964, no. 43 (c)
- Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1975, p. 181 (c)
- Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw, 1976, p. 181 (c)
- Seedamm-Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon/Lake Zurich, 1979, p. 181 (c)
- Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 1980, p. 191 (c)
- Secession, Vienna, 1981, p. 191 (c)
- Kulturhaus, Graz, 1981, p. 191 (c)
- Hundertwasser, Japan und die Avantgarde, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Orangerie, Vienna, 2013, p. 85 (c)
- Hundertwasser Bibel, Augsburg, 1995, AT, p. 1140 (adaptation, c)
- Bijutsu Techo, Tokyo, June 1963, Tokyo, p. 42 (b)
- Hundertwasser 1974, by Cicero GmbH, Stuttgart (February, 50 x 35,7 cm)
- Art Calender, Hundertwasser 1980, by Cicero BRD (December, big size)
- Art Calender 1986, by Wörner, Gerlingen (August, big size)
- Hundertwasser 2004 Calendar, Taschen, Cologne (and reprints)
- Hundertwasser 2012 Calendar, Taschen, Cologne (and reprints)