Hundertwasser's comment on the work

In the Bottlehouse, where the walls are made of bottles, under a grass roof, it is wonderfully cool in the summer, and there is classical, usually Viennese music from the New Zealand concert-programme station, with no commercials, coming out of a South African radio with no batteries which can be charged by hand and also runs on sunlight. In the winter I heat with wood from my own trees. I don't think Dürer, Breughel or Schiele had it so good when they were painting. (from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, p. 716)

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STURM IM WASSERGLAS
STORM IN A GLASS OF WATER
TEMPETE DANS UN VERRE D'EAU

Kaurinui, 1999
Finished Kaurinui, Bottlehouse, February 1999
1398 mm x 995 mm
Mixed media: watercolour, egg tempera, oil, lacquer on primed paper, glued on canvas with PVA and cellulose glue; gold and silver leaf applied by Ralf Wittig, Zwettl
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  • 2004 Hundertwasser Diary Jahrbuch, Borer & Wörner, Zug
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  • Hundertwasser 2008 Calendar, Taschen, Cologne, backcover
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  • Hundertwasser Notebook, Wörner, Rutesheim, 2011
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  • Calendar, Hundertwasser Art 2013, teNeues, Kempen
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  • Calendar, Hundertwasser Art 2019, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim (small size)