Hundertwasser's comment on the work

One puts on a hat. When people go through a street wearing high hats, the architectural appearance of the city is changed. When someone wants to be bigger than he is, he wears elevator shoes, even walks on stilts and wears crowns or high hats on his head. If top hats are very high and big, one can fly with them, so that one has to hang onto the hat. Then one does not wear a hat, the hat wears one. (from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, p. 644)

844
CHAPEAUX QUI PORTENT
HÜTE TRAGEN
Hats That Wear You

Venice, 1982
Painted in Venice, December 1981 and August 1982
810 mm x 1160 mm
Mixed media
  • Artcurial, Paris, 1982
  • Artcurial, Munich, 1983
  • Galerie Haas, Vaduz, 1984
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  • World Travelling Museum Exhibition:
  • Dum Umení, Brno, 1986
  • Národní Galerie, Prague, 1986/87
  • Galerie Umenì, Karlovy Vary, 1987
  • Slovenska Narodna Galeria, Bratislava, 1987
  • Rupertinum, Salzburg, 1987
  • *
  • Stichting Veranneman, Kruishoutem, 1987
  • KunstHausWien, Vienna, since April 1991
  • Kunsthal Rotterdam, 2004
  • ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishoj, Denmark, 2014
  • KunstHausWien, Vienna, mid-November 2016 - March 23, 2017
  • art 14'83, Basel, 1983 (Goldman)
  • A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, pp. 643/644 (and c)
  • B. Stieff, Hundertwasser für Kinder, Munich, 2007, p. 47 (c)
  • F. Hundertwasser / P. Restany, Hundertwasser, New York, 2008, p. 80 (c)
  • Mein Kunstmalbuch, Phantasiereisen mit Hundertwasser, Munich, 2008, p. 14 (c)
  • Briefmarkenbuch, Vienna, 2008, (c)
  • P. Restany, Die Macht der Kunst, Hundertwasser - Der Maler-König mit den fünf Häuten, Cologne, 2018, cover (detail, c) and p. 39 (c)
  • Artcurial, Paris, 1982, pp. 30 (c), 49
  • World Travelling Museum Exhibition 1986/87: Czechoslovakia (b)
  • Stichting Veranneman, Kruishoutem, 1987 (c)
  • KunstHausWien, Vienna, 1999, p. 65 (c)
  • Dans la peau de Hundertwasser, Le Musée en Herbe, Paris, 2013, pp. 18 (c), 19 (adaptation of colours, c), 38 (details, c), 41 (c)
  • Hundertwasser, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishoj, 2014, pp. 80/81 (c)
  • Exhibition leaflet, Head 2 Head, KunstHausWien, Vienna, 2012 (c)
  • Exhibition leaflet, Lillian Bassman - Paul Himmel, KunstHausWien, Vienna, 2014 (c)
  • B. Denscher, Kunst & Kultur in Österreich, Vienna, 1999, p. 167 (c)
  • A. Filali (ed.), imagine strawberry fields, Paris, 2000, pp. 30-31 (c)
  • L. Bülow-Olsen, S. Kjaer Harms, V. Skaarup, d'dansk, Kopenhagen, 2015, p. 102 (detail, c)
  • Philipp im Frühling, March/April 2009, Vienna, p. 11 (c)
  • Die kunterbunte Kinderzeitung, no. 84, February 1, 2010, Aichtal, p. 2 (c)
  • Postcard, Maxiart Edition NY 24, 1983 (The Thirty-Fifth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
  • Calendar 1984, Verlag Galerie Welz, Salzburg (December)
  • Art Print, Verkerke, Netherlands, 1983
  • Meisterschule Hundertwasser, 1986 (cover)
  • Hundertwasser Calendar 1984, B. Wörner, Gerlingen (May)
  • Hundertwasser Calendar 1987, Verlag Galerie Welz, Salzburg
  • Poster: Hundertwasser im KunstHausWien, Museums Betriebs GesmbH, Vienna, 1991 (42 x 59 cm, detail)
  • Hundertwasser Agenda, B. Wörner, Rutesheim, 1993
  • Hundertwasser Adressbuch, ed. by B. Wörner, Rutesheim 1993
  • Hundertwasser Pocket Art and Pocket Art 94, B. Wörner, Rutesheim, 1993
  • Art Calendar 1994, B. Wörner, Rutesheim (56 x 49/26 x 23 cm, July)
  • Bookmark, B. Wörner, Rutesheim, 1995 (detail, adaptation)
  • Hundertwasser 2004 Calendar, Taschen, Cologne
  • Poster, Hundertwasser im KunsthausWien, Gruener Janura AG, Glarus und Museumsbetriebsges.mbH, 2004 (detail, c)
  • Calendar, Hundertwasser Art 2009, teNeues, Kempen
  • Calendar, Hundertwasser Art 2010, Wörner, Rutesheim (small size)
  • Hundertwasser Address book, Wörner, Rutesheim, 2011
  • Hundertwasser Notebook, Wörner, Rutesheim, 2011
  • Hundertwasser Premium Birthday Calendar, Wörner, Rutesheim, 2011
  • Art print, Wörner, Rutesheim, 2011 (48 x 67 cm)
  • Hundertwasser Diary 2012, Wörner, Rutesheim
  • Hundertwasser Premium Art Calendar 2012, Wörner, Rutesheim
  • Calendar, Hundertwasser Art 2013, Wörner, Rutesheim (cover, detail)
  • Postcard, Wörner, Rutesheim, 2012 and repr. 2019
  • Hundertwasser Pocket Art 2014, Wörner, Rutesheim (detail)
  • ARKEN exhibition 2014, art print cards, Ishoj, Denmark
  • Hundertwasser Slim Art Calendar 2016, Wörner, Rutesheim
  • Calendar, Hundertwasser Art 2018, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim (small size), cover (detail)