725
THE BLOB GROWS IN A FLOWER POT
DAS DINGSDA WÄCHST IM BLUMENTOPF
LE BLOB POUSSE DANS LE POT A FLEURS
Hahnsäge, 1974
Painted at Rakino Island, N.Z., September 1973 - Hotel St. Moritz, New York, October - on board the Regentag, Gzira, Malta, November 16 - on board the Regentag, La Goulette, Tunis, December, 1973 - Hahnsäge, January 20, 1974
430 mm x 470 mm
Mixed media: watercolour, egg tempera and oil on irregular (Masonite) fibrewood of poor quality from Rakino Island, primed with chalk and PV
- Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1975
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- World Travelling Museum Exhibition:
- Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1975
- Musée de l'Etat, Luxembourg, 1975
- Musée Cantini, Marseille, 1975
- A.S.U. Hall, Cairo, 1975
- The Tel Aviv Museum, 1976
- Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw, 1976
- National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, 1976
- Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, 1976
- Musée Dynamique, Dakar, 1976
- Seibu Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 1977
- Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1977
- South African National Gallery, Cape Town, 1977
- Pretoria Art Museum, 1977
- Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, 1977
- Museu de Arte, São Paulo, 1977
- Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, 1977
- Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, 1978
- Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montreal, 1978
- Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1978
- Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1978
- Mücsarnok, Budapest, 1978
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- Travelling exhibition 1979/1981:
- Aberbach Fine Art, New York, 1979
- Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, 1980
- Galerie Brockstedt, Hamburg, 1980
- Hammerlunds Kunsthandel, Oslo, 1980
- Galerie Würthle, Vienna, 1981
- Art Fair, Basel, 1979
- FIAC, Paris, 1980
- Hundertwasser - Was braucht der Mensch um glücklich zu sein?, Munich, 2002, cover (c) and p. 11 (c)
- A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, pp. 563/564 (and c)
- Art Souvenir - Hundertwasser, In the Colour of His Brush, London, 2016, cover (c). pp. 37 (c), 90
- Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1975, p. 263 (c)
- Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1975, p. 385 (c)
- Musée de l'Etat, Luxembourg, 1975, p. 285 (c)
- Musée Cantini, Marseille, 1975, p. 285 (c)
- A.S.U. Hall, Cairo, 1975, p. 285 (c)
- The Tel Aviv Museum, 1976, p. 235 (c)
- Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw, 1976, p. 263 (c)
- National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, 1976, p. 205 (c)
- Supplementary edition Reykjavik, 1976, p. 37
- Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, 1976, p. 385 (c)
- Supplementary edition no. 2, Copenhagen, 1976, p. 23
- Musée Dynamique, Dakar, 1976, p. 385 (c)
- Seibu Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 1977, p. 235 (c)
- South African National Gallery, Cape Town / Pretoria Art Museum, 1977, p. 235 (c)
- Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro / Museu de Arte, São Paulo / Palácio Itamaraty, Brasilia, 1977, p. 235 (c)
- Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, 1977, p. 235 (c)
- Supplementary edition Caracas, 1977, cat. Tecnica mixta 30
- Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, 1978, p. 235 (c)
- Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montreal, 1978, p. 385 (c)
- Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1978, p. 235 (c)
- Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1978, p. 385 (c)
- Seedamm-Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon/Lake Zurich, 1979, p. 263 (c)
- Palazzo Barberini, Rome, 1980, p. 235 (c)
- Sonja Henies og Niels Onstads Stiftelser Kunstsentret, Høvikodden, 1980, p. 235 (c)
- Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 1980, p. 289 (c)
- Secession, Vienna, 1981, p. 289 (c)
- Kulturhaus, Graz, 1981, p. 289 (c)
- Helsingin kaupungin taidemuseo, Helsinki, 1981, p. 235 (c)
- Barbican Art Gallery, London, 1983, p. 235 (c)
- S. Wille, Träume sind große Taten, Herder, Vienna 1993, p.51 (c)
- Art International, Vol. XIX/3, March 1975, Lugano, p. 15 (b)
- Invitation card, Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1975
- Art Calendar 1976, Cicero GmbH, Stuttgart (September, 45,5 x 50 cm)
- Postcard Calendar 1975, Cicero GmbH, Stuttgart(February)
- Art Agenda 1979, Cicero GmbH, Stuttgart
- Art Agenda, Hundertwasser 1980, Cicero GmbH, Stuttgart
- Invitation card, Secession, Vienna, 1981
- Invitation card, Kulturhaus, Graz, 1981
- Art Calendar, Hundertwasser 1982, Verlag Galerie Welz, Salzburg (October)
- Art Calendar, Hundertwasser 1986, B. Wörner, Gerlingen (March)
- Hundertwasser artclou 1989, Caesar Art International, Stuttgart
- Hundertwasser artclou 1991, Caesar Art International, Stuttgart
- Wrapping paper for Eckes Edelkirsch, 1984 (multi-mirrored, 590 x 418 mm)
- Art Calendar 1993, Verlag Galerie Welz, Salzburg (46 x 34 cm, October)
- Hundertwasser Mini Adressbuch, Borer & Wörner Verlag, Zug, 1994
- Hundertwasser Pocket Art and Pocket Art 95, Borer & Wörner, Zug
- Hundertwasser Diary 1997 and Hundertwasser Directory, Borer & Wörner, Zug, 1996
- Hundertwasser Diary 1998, Borer & Wörner, Zug
- Hundertwasser 2004 Calendar, Taschen, Cologne (and reprints)
- Art print: Gruener Janura AG, Glarus, 2005 and ed. 2013
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Calendar 2007, sanofi aventis, Vienna
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Art Calendar 2007, Borer & Wörner, Zug
- Calendar, Hundertwasser span-a-year Calendar 2007, Borer & Wörner, Zug
- Calendar, Hundertwasser stripe Calendar, Borer & Wörner, Zug
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Art Calendar 2008, Borer & Wörner, Zug
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Jahresplaner 2008, Borer & Wörner, Zug
- Hundertwasser span-a-year Art Calendar 2009, Wörner, Rutesheim, cover
- Hundertwasser Vertical Wall Calendar Art 2009, Wörner, Rutesheim
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Art 2009, Wörner, Rutesheim (small size)
- Hundertwasser Diary 2010, Wörner, Rutesheim (cover)
- Hundertwasser Pocket Art 2010, Wörner, Rutesheim
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Art 2010, teNeues, Kempen (cover)
- Hundertwasser span-a-year Art Calendar 2012, Wörner, Rutesheim
- Hundertwasser Vertical Wall Calendar Art 2012, Wörner, Rutesheim
- Hundertwasser 2012 Calendar, Taschen, Cologne (and reprints)
- Art + Architecture International Calendar, Wörner, Rutesheim, 2013
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Art 2015, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim (small size)
- Hundertwasser Slim Art Calendar 2016, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim
- Hundertwasser Vertical Wall Calendar Art 2017, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim
- Hundertwasser span-a-year Art Calendar 2017, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Art 2019, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim (square size)
- Hundertwasser Vertical Wall Calendar Art 2020, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim
Hundertwasser's comment on the work
In New Zealand I read in a newspaper that in one corner of a garden in England a blob was growing and growing. The horrified people couldn't burn or cut up the blob, nor dislodge it or get rid of it any other way. The blob even crawled up a telephone pole. Scientists don't know what it is. (from: Catalogue Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 1980, p. 288)
See also 745 Whatchamacallits Grow in Beloved Gardens.