804
HUMUSDUFT
HUMUS SCENT
PARFUM D'HUMUS
Algajola, Corse, 1979
Painted in Paris, December 12, 1978, and March 3, 1979 - Algajola, July 1979
605 mm x 495 mm
Mixed media: watercolour, acrylic, oil, egg tempera and goldfoil on paper, glued on canvas with PVA
- Seedamm-Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon/Lake Zurich, 1979
- Palazzo Barberini, Rome, 1980
- Secession, Vienna, 1981
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- Travelling exhibition 1979-1981:
- Galerie Brockstedt, Hamburg, 1980
- Galerie Würthle, Vienna, 1981
- FIAC, Paris, 1980
- P. Restany, Die Macht der Kunst, Hundertwasser - Der Maler-König mit den fünf Häuten, Cologne, 1998, p. 81 (c) and ed. 2018, p. 77 (c)
- W. Schmied, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2000, Vol. I, pp. 206, 208 (c)
- Hundertwasser - Das Paradies liegt um die Ecke, Munich, 2002, p. 31 (c)
- A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, pp. 617/618 (and c)
- F. Hundertwasser / P. Restany, Hundertwasser, New York, 2008, p. 169 (c)
- G. Illetschko, Planet Hundertwasser, Munich, 2012, p. 81 (c)
- Palazzo Reale, Milan, 1980 (b)
- Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 1980, p. 357 (c), cover (c)
- Secession, Vienna, 1981, p. 357 (c), cover (c)
- Kulturhaus, Graz, 1981, p. 357 (c), cover (c)
- Neue Berliner Galerie, East Berlin, 1981 (c)
- M. Andreas-Grisebach, Eine Ethik für die Natur, Zurich, 1994 cover, (c) and ed. Frankfurt, 1994, cover (c)
- Cat. Kunst unserer Welt, ARTES, Rheda-Wiedenbrück, 1981 (c, insert WTE Cat. Cologne)
- Hundertwasser Bibel, Augsburg, 1995, AT, p. 181 (adaptation, c)
- Börsenkurier, no. 5, Jan. 29, 1981, Vienna, p. 9 (b)
- The New Gazette, March 1981, Vienna, p. 5 (b)
- Austria Today, vol. VII, winter 1981, Vienna, cover (c)
- Trente Jours, no. 8, Sept. 1989, Lausanne, cover (c)
- connection special, no. 24, Niedertaufkirchen, 1995, pp. 50 (c), 51 (c)
- l'atelier des images et des sons, no. 66, Sept. 2009, Paris, poster (c)
- Art Calendar, Hundertwasser 1982, B. Wörner, Gerlingen (January, reversed sides)
- Art Calendar, Hundertwasser 1983, Verlag Galerie Welz, Salzburg (September, 29,5 x 24 cm)
- Hundertwasser Calendar 1986, B. Wörner, Gerlingen (December, big)
- Hundertwasser Art-Agenda 1987, Caesar Art International, Stuttgart
- Hundertwasser Art-Agenda 1988, Caesar Art International, Stuttgart
- Hundertwasser Art-Agenda 1989, caesar Art International, Stuttgart
- Hundertwasser Art Jahrbuch 1992, caesar Art International, Stuttgart
- Hundertwasser Calendar 1992, Verlag Galerie Welz, Salzburg (January)
- Hundertwasser Art Memo, caesar International Art, Stuttgart
- Hundertwasser 2004 Calendar, Taschen, Cologne (and reprints)
- Hundertwasser 2012 Calendar, Taschen, Cologne (and reprints)
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Art 2014, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim (small size)
- Hundertwasser 2014 Calendar, Taschen, Cologne (backcover)
- showcase presentation, Westenholzer Kunst- und Themenweg, Delbrück, 2015 (c)
- Hundertwasser Pocket Art 2015, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Art 2017, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim
- credit card, Raiffeisenbank, Moscow, 2017 (detail)
- Hundertwasser Agenda 2020, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim
Hundertwasser's comment on the work
Anybody who goes for a walk in the woods after a rain is familiar with this odor. A few years ago I designed a perfume bottle, including the cap. When I asked to sniff what was in it, I felt nauseous. Joram had put a couple of drops of this perfume on his sleeve because he didn't believe me, and he had to get out of his car and take the tram, that's how bad the perfume stank up the car. The perfume makers came to Vienna for the express purpose of giving me other perfumes to try: cyclamen, roses and all kinds of scents, in a suitcase full of flasks. All of them smelled horribly of perfumed ladies, the kind I go out of my way toavoid. I suggested that for the bottle I had designed they should make a scent that I, Hundertwasser, could identify with, too, exquisite turpentine, for example, but especially the humus odor of forest soil. The perfume makers were furious; never had personalities for whom perfumes had been named, and more renowned ones than I, ever made demands about the scent. So the Hundertwasser perfume bottle came to naught. (from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, p. 618)