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TROPICAL CHINESE
TROPENCHINESE
CHINESE DES TROPIQUES
Hahnsäge, 1987
Painted at Seychelles, 1983 - Mahe, August 20 and 21, 1983 - Hahnsäge, July 21, 26 and August 3 - Vienna, February 8, 1987 - signed Hahnsäge, December 16, 1987
860 mm x 860 mm
Mixed media: watercolour, egg tempera, oil, acrylic and lacquer on paper with white priming, glued on cotton with cellulose glue and PV; chassis cross made by Hundertwasser in New Zealand about 1982-83; gold and silver leaf applied by Ralf Wittig, Zwettl. Glued-on watercolour top left: 590 x 420 mm
KunstHausWien, Vienna
- KunsthausWien, Vienna, April 1991 - mid-November 2016
- Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul, 2016/17
- KunstHausWien, Vienna, since March 23, 2017
- Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna, 1990
- A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, pp. 658, 660 (c)
- F. Hundertwasser / P. Restany, Hundertwasser, New York, 2008, p. 230 (c)
- Briefmarkenbuch, Hundertwasser in Wien, Vienna, 2011, p. 41 (c)
- Art Souvenir - Hundertwasser, In the Colour of His Brush, London, 2016, pp. 26 (c), 90
- Über die Wahrheit in der Malerei, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna, 1990 (c)
- Hundertwasser, The Green City, Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul, 2016, pp. 69 (and c), 253
- Broschure: Kunstwerk, Die Hundertwasser Ausgabe der Brockhaus Enzyklopädie, n.p., 1989, p. 20 (artist's description, c)
- Persönliche Chronik, Bertelsmann Club, Rheda-Wiedenbrück 1997 (cover April, adapted, c)
- Trente Jours, no. 9, Lausanne, 1989, p. 69 (c)
- Poster for Bunte Umwelt-Journal, Vol. 21/1988 (Collage after 905 and 887)
- Postcard, Joram Harel Management, Vienna, 1988
- Hundertwasser Art Calendar 1989, B. Wörner, printed by Kirschgarten Druckerei AG, Basel/Stuttgart (December, big)
- Hundertwasser art agenda 1989, caesar Art International, Stuttgart
- Hundertwasser art agenda 1990, caesar Art International, Stuttgart
- Wrapping paper, Museums Betriebs Gesellschaft mbH, Vienna, 1991 (68 x 96 cm, multi-mirrored)
- Art Calendar 1992: Hundertwasser im KunstHausWien, Brönner Verlag, Frankfurt (58 x 48 cm, October)
- Hundertwasser Furoshiki, KunstHausWien MuseumShop, Vienna, 1995
- Hundertwasser Diary 1997 and Hundertwasser Directory, Borer & Wörner, Zug, 1996
- Hundertwasser Diary 1998, Borer & Wörner, Zug
- Hundertwasser Poster, Museums Betriebs Gesellschaft mbH, Vienna, 1997
- Hundertwasser 2004 Calendar, Taschen, Cologne
- Calendar: Hundertwasser 2004, Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Art 2010, teNeues, Kempen
- Hundertwasser Pocket Art 2010, Wörner, Rutesheim
- Hundertwasser 2010 Calendar, Taschen, Cologne, cover (detail)
- Hundertwasser Diary 2013, Wörner, Rutesheim
- Hundertwasser Pocket Art 2015, Wörner, Rutesheim
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Art 2018, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim (square size)
- Hundertwasser Vertical Wall Calendar Art 2018, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim
- Hundertwasser span-a-year Art Calendar 2018, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Art 2019, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Art 2019, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim (small size)
Hundertwasser's comment on the work
One time I was riding my bicycle over a bridge in Santa Marina, near Venice. Some cyclists came from the opposite direction, wearing reflecting glasses. That made a big impression on me. If these glasses had had a slit in the middle, through which the eyes would look, the result would be beings something like insects. The living thing in my painting is wearing a kind of tropical helmet. Its costume is architectural, i. e., it is composed of parcels, like dwelling units. (translated from the broschure: Kunstwerk, Die Hundertwasser Ausgabe der Brockhaus Enzyklopädie, n. p., 1989, p. 20)