DUNKELBUNT
I close my eyes halfway just as
when I conceive paintings
and I see the houses
dunkelbunt
instead of ugly cream colour
and green meadows on all roofs
instead of corrugated iron
*
I am looking forward
to become humus myself
buried naked without coffin
under a beech tree planted by myself
on my land in Ao Tea Roa
*
the trees grow
*
dunkelbunt means:
glowing in pure strong and deep
colours a little sad like seen
on a rainy day
Published in:
Ao Tea Roa – Insel der verlorenen Wünsche, Hamburg: Albrecht Knaus Verlag, 1979, p. 5
The yet unknown Hundertwasser. Catalogue on the occasion of the exhibition at KunstHausWien, Munich: Prestel Verlag 2008, p. 242
KunstHaus Abensberg, Abensberg, 2014, S. 42 (German)
Hundertwasser The Green City, Exhibition catalogue, Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul, 2016, pp. 244-245 (English/Korean)
Hundertwasser. Traumfänger einer schöneren Welt, Exhibition catalogue for Kunstmuseum am Inselbahnhof, Lindau, 2019, p. 138 (German)