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HOMO HUMUS HUMANITAS
Kaurinui, 1983
Painted in Kaurinui, March 16, 1983
330 mm x 250 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. 647 (c)
- Briefmarkenbuch, Hundertwasser in Wien, Vienna, 2011, p. 4 (c) and postage stamp
- Travelling exhibition 1989: Japan, cat. 63 (b)
- Minoritenkloster, Tulln, 2004, p. 137 (c)
- A Magical Eccentric, Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, 2007, p. 176
- Cultures 36, Dialogue between the peoples of the world, Unesco, Paris, 1985, p. 13 (b)
- Hundertwasser Bibel, Augsburg, 1995, NT, p. 177 (c)
- Wiener, KunstHausWien Extra, n.d., Klosterneuburg, p. 15 (c)
- Calendar: Hundertwasser 2004, B. Wörner, Zug
Hundertwasser's comment on the work
HOMO HUMUS HUMANITAS
The right and duty of man to be reborn and to perpetuate on this earth by means of his own waste. The wasteless society transforms death into life by restoring the cycle.
For instance by means of humus toilets producing humus, plant purification plants producing clean water, and plants and burial proceedings in harmony with the laws of nature where our dead are transformed into trees planted on the graves. And a recovery of agriculture and human activities at all levels, away from poison, destruction and monoculture.
All civilisations last only as long as its layer of humus. The Egyptian, Greek, Roman and other civilisations ceased to exist when their layer of humus was exhausted. The decline of our civilisation will follow when we cannot restore our infinitely thin layer of humus.