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TREATY WITH NATURE
FRIEDENSVERTRAG MIT DER NATUR
Kaurinui, 1983
Painted in Kaurinui, March 16, 1983
330 mm x 252 mm
Watercolour on white primed paper
- Travelling exhibition 1989:
- Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, 1989
- Iwaki City Art Museum, 1989
- Ohara Museum of Art, 1989
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- KunstHausWien, Vienna, since April 1991
- Borek Ladengeschäft am Dom, Braunschweig, 1996
- Philatelia T'card '97, Cologne, 1997
- Marke + Münze, Graz, 2001
- Egon Schiele Museum, Tulln, 2004
- Szépmüvészeti Museum, Budapest, 2007/08
- Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar, 2008
- H. Rand, Hundertwasser, Cologne 1991, p. 232 (c) and ed. 1993, p. 194 (c)
- A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, p. 646 (c)
- Briefmarkenbuch, Hundertwasser in Wien, Vienna, 2011, p. 4 (c) and postage stamp
- Travelling exhibition 1989: Japan, cat. 61 (b)
- Minoritenkloster, Tulln, 2004, p. 136 (c)
- A Magical Eccentric, Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, 2007, p. 176
- Cultures 36, Dialogue between the peoples of the world, Unesco, Paris, 1985 (b)
- Wiener, KunstHausWien Extra, n.d., Klosterneuburg, p. 15 (c)
- Natur aktiv, no. 1, 2010, Salzburg, cover (c)
- Ambiante, no. 60, 2012, Corti, cover (c, d) and p. 3 (c)
Hundertwasser's comment on the work
PEACE TREATY WITH NATURE
The right and duty of mankind to finish all disputes between men and to conclude a treaty with nature, the only superior power the human race depends on for its own survival.
The peace treaty must include the following points:
1. we have to learn the language of nature to be able to communicate with her
2. the restore territories to nature which have been illegally violated and occupied by man
following the principle that all what is horizontal under the sky belongs to nature, including for instance roofs and streets.
3. to tolerate spontaneous vegetation
4. to reapproach and reunite the creativity of man (art) and the creativity of nature which have been separated with disastrous consequences.
5. to live in harmony and according to the laws of nature
6. we are but guests of nature, and must behave. Man is the most dangerous pest that ever devastated the earth.
Man must put himself back into his environmental barriers so that the earth can regenerate.
7. we must become again a society free of waste.
Only he, who honours and recycles his own waste in a waste-free society can turn death into life and has the right to continue to be present on this earth.
Respecting the cycle he permits the resurrection of life.