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LE TRE CASE DI ATLANTIS
DIE DREI HÄUSER VON ATLANTIS
THE THREE HOUSES OF ATLANTIS
Venice, 1963
Painted travelling Monolithos, Santorini, September 12 - Siros, September 20 - Mykonos, on beach, September 22 - at the frontier at Eidomeni and on the train for Belgrade, September 27 - finished Venice, Giudecca, October 1963
520 mm x 730 mm
Mixed media: egg tempera and wax soap, PV and wax soap, oil on drawing paper, partly primed with chalk and PV; mounted on jute with PV
- 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
- A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, p. 466 (c)
- B. Stieff, Hundertwasser für Kinder, Munich, 2007, p. 31 (c)
- F. Hundertwasser / P. Restany, Hundertwasser, New York, 2008, pp. 178/179 (c)
- Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, 1964, pp. 51 (c), 208
- Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 1964, cat. 112
- Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, 1965, cat. 125
- Christmas card for Guido Trevisan, Venice, December, 1963
- Hundertwasser 2004 Calendar, Taschen, Cologne (and reprints)
- Hundertwasser 2012 Calendar, Taschen, Cologne (and reprints)
Hundertwasser's comment on the work
The barrel-vault structure, I am convinced, dates from before the Flood, when the world was still Minoan-Etruscan, colourful and jolly. If the houses are white-washed in front, built into the slope, covered with earth and have a ventilation duct at the back, they are incredibly cool beneath the most blazing rays of the sun. I lived in a house like that. There was a constant cool breeze, even when there was no wind outside. Earth on the roof protects just as much against the cold as against the heat. (from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, p. 466)