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FENETRES D'AUTOBUS
AUTOBUS-FENSTER
BUS WINDOWS
St. Mandé/Seine, 1954
Painted in St. Mandé/Seine, Castle Dumage, May 1954
590 mm x 1020 mm
Mixed media: oil, coloured pencil and chalk relief on two joined box covers made of wood fibre, priming of chalk, zinc white and fish glue, surrounded by "baguette électrique";
- Galerie H. Kamer, Cannes, 1957
- Galerie H. Kamer, Paris, 1957
- 31st Venice Biennial, 1962
- P. Restany, Hundertwasser, Paris, 1957 (b)
- W. Schmied, Hundertwasser, Salzburg, 1974, pl. 41 (c), p. 313
- Das Hundertwasser Haus, Vienna, 1985, p. 21 (c)
- Postcardbook: Lost and Stolen Pictures, Cologne, 1995 (c)
- Hundertwasser Architektur, Cologne, 1996, p. 22 (c) and ed. 2006, p. 18 (c)
- A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, p. 261 (c)
- XXXI. Biennale di Venezia, Austria, 1962, cat. 11
- Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, 1964, p. 124
- HW-Die Kunst des grünen Weges, KunstHausWien, Vienna, 2011, pp. 60 (c), 213
- Peintures actuelles, March 1957 Paris (b)
Hundertwasser's comment on the work
The window frame is important. The gaze falls on a void in the whitest snow. So looking out you can dream your way outside from within. Buses are moving houses. Outside, the world moves past. You think about many other things while looking.
(from: Hundertwasser Architecture, Cologne, 1997, p. 22)
Here I painted white on white and wanted to make the white speak. (from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, p. 261)