Hundertwasser's comment on the work

Again and again gardens with fences around them (see also 118). Perhaps it was the workers-allotment gardens of my youth in the "Schmelz" district of Vienna, which were unattainable to me; protected nature; the " acquisitions to liberate nature" I practised later. (from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, p. 355)

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JARDIN PRISON DE REVE
GEFÄNGNISGARTEN DES TRAUMS
Prison Garden of Dream

Mixed media
Altaussee, 1958
Painted at Altaussee, April 1958
450 mm x 630 mm
Watercolour and egg tempera on wrapping paper, primed with chalk, zinc white and fish glue
Hundertwasser Art Centre, Whangarei

  • Galerie H. Kamer, Paris, 1958
  • Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, 1961
  • Galleria La Medusa, Rome, 1962
  • KunstHausWien, Vienna, June - July 1995
  • Städtisches Museum Braunschweig, 1996
  • KunstHausWien, Vienna, September 1997 - January 2001
  • KunstHausWien, Vienna, November 2005 - February 2007
  • Landesmuseum, Mainz, 2008
  • Seoul Arts Center Hangaram Design Museum, Seoul, 2010/11
  • KunstHausWien, Vienna, 2011
  • Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, 2012
  • Kunsthalle Bremen, 2012/13
  • Osthaus Museum Hagen, Hagen, 2015
  • KunstHausWien, Vienna, November 2016 - April 19, 2017
  • Leopold Museum, Vienna, 2020
  • Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn, 2021
  • Hundertwasser Art Centre, Whangarei, since Feb. 2022
  • 100 works on paper, Boston, 1959
  • Orangerie, Unteres Belvedere, Vienna, 2007
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  • Leaflet: Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, 1961 (c)
  • Galleria La Medusa, Rome, 1962 (c)
  • Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, 1964, pp. 95 (c), 168
  • A. Husslein-Arco (ed.), Der Garten in der Kunst, Vienna, 2007, p. 239 (c)
  • Seoul Arts Center Hangaram Design Museum, Seoul, 2010/11, pp. 82/83 (c), 227
  • HW-Die Kunst des grünen Weges, KunstHausWien, Vienna, 2011, pp. 88 (c), 213
  • Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, 2012, p. 81 (c)
  • Gegen den Strich. Werke 1949-1970, Kunsthalle Bremen, 2012/13, pp. 180 (c), 255
  • Hundertwasser Lebenslinien, Osthaus Museum, Hagen, 2015, p. 25 (c)
  • Hundertwasser art agenda 1989, caesar Art International, Stuttgart
  • Hundertwasser art agenda 1990, caesar Art International, Stuttgart
  • Hundertwasser art clou 1991, caesar International Art, Stuttgart