Hundertwasser's comment on the work

Zwolle is in Holland. While visting a friend there I painted this picture. It is of a town on an island, with people, houses and smokestacks. It looks like a space capsule which can also move about in space on its own, with a meadow around it. A very vague dream. It can also be something completely different. I always paint in such a way that it can be the opposite of what I say it is. (from the broschure: Kunstwerk, die Hundertwasser Ausgabe der Brockhaus Enzyklopädie, n. p., 1989, p. 18)

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ZWOLLENER EIKOLONIE
SWEET SEA COLONY ON THE SALT SEA VOYAGE - EGG COLONY OF ZWOLLE
COLONIE D'?UFS A ZWOLLE

Mixed media
Hahnsäge, 1967
Painted at Zwolle, July 23, 1967 - Salzburg and Hahnsäge, August 1967
720 mm x 910 mm
Mixed media: watercolour, oil, egg tempera, lacquer, gold foil and bronze powder on drawing paper, primed with chalk and PV; mounted on jute
  • Travelling exhibition 1968/69:
  • University Art Museum Berkeley, 1968
  • Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1968/69
  • The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1969
  • The Arts Club of Chicago, 1969
  • The Galerie St. Etienne, New York, 1969
  • The Phillips Collection, Washington DC, 1969
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  • Aberbach Fine Art, New York, 1973
  • Landau Fine Art, Montreal, 1994
  • Art´96, Chicago, 1996
  • Art'96, Basel, 1996
  • W. Schmied, Hundertwasser, Salzburg, 1974, pl. 92 (c), p. 319
  • P. Restany, Hundertwasser, New York, 1978, p. 113 (c)
  • H. Rand, Hundertwasser, Cologne, 1991, p. 135 (c) and ed. 1993, p. 115 (c)
  • A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, pp. 525/526 (and c)
  • F. Hundertwasser / P. Restany, Hundertwasser, New York, 2008, p. 44 (c)
  • University Art Museum, Berkeley, 1968, p. 127 (c), cat. 76
  • Aberbach Fine Arts, New York, 1973, p. 49 (c)
  • Landau Fine Art, Montreal, 1994, p. 13 (c)
  • Kunstwerk, Die Hundertwasser Ausgabe der Brockhaus Enzyklopädie, 1989, p. 18 (artist's description, c)
  • Mizue, Aug. 1969, Tokyo (b)
  • Art in America, May/June 1969, New York, p. 116 (c)
  • Protokolle, Vienna, 1968, pp. 40/41 (c)
  • Postcard, Basler Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, Basel, 1967
  • Art Calendar 1975 and 1976, Cicero GmbH, Stuttgart (postcard size, February)
  • Art Calendar 1976, Verlag Galerie Welz, Salzburg (234 x 299 mm, April)
  • Art Calendar 1980, Buchheim Verlag, Feldafing (August)
  • Art Calendar 1981, Verlag Galerie Welz, Salzburg (January)
  • Postcard, Gruener Janura AG, Glarus, 1984 (repr.)
  • Pullover, Gianni Bugli, Milan, 1997 (limited edition of 999)
  • Hundertwasser 2012 Calendar, Taschen, Cologne (and reprints)