624
DER GEHER
THE WALKER
LE MARCHEUR
Paris, 1966
Painted in Venice, Giudecca, end of 1965 - Paris, February 9-15, 1966
650 mm x 540 mm
Mixed media: watercolour, PV, egg tempera and oil on Fabriano paper, primed with chalk zinc white and PV; mounted on hemp with PV and cellulose glue
- Travelling exhibition 1967:
- Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris, 1967
- Hanover Gallery, London, 1967
- Galerie Krugier / Galerie Georges Moos, Geneva, 1967
- Kunstverein Berlin, 1967
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- Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1975
- Landau Fine Art, Montreal, 1994
- KunstHausWien, Vienna, March 8 - September 2012
- Art´96, Chicago, 1996
- Art'96 Basel, 1996
- Galerie Thomas, Munich, 1980
- Art 39 Basel, Basle, 2008
- W. Schmied, Hundertwasser - Der Weg zu Dir, Frankfurt am Main, 1967, ed. 1971, 1974, pl. 13 (c), p. 66
- J.F. Mathey, Hundertwasser, Munich, 1985 and ed. 1992, p. 47 (c)
- Das Hundertwasser Haus, Vienna 1985, p. 33 (c)
- Hundertwasser Architektur, Cologne, 1996, p. 32 (c)
- A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, pp. 502/503 (and c)
- Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris, 1967 (c)
- Hanover Gallery, London, 1967 (c)
- Galerie Krugier / Galerie Georges Moos, Geneva, 1967 (c)
- Kunstverein Berlin, 1967 (c)
- Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1975, p. 233 (c)
- Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw, 1976, p. 233 (c)
- Seedamm-Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon/Lake Zurich, 1979, p. 233 (c)
- Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 1980, p. 259 (c)
- Secession, Vienna, 1981, p. 259 (c)
- Kulturhaus, Graz, 1981, p. 259 (c)
- Neue Berliner Galerie, East Berlin, 1981 (c)
- Die ersten 15 Jahre, Galerie Thomas, Munich, 1980, pl. 78 (c)
- Landau Fine Art, Montreal, 1994, p. 57 (c)
- H. Mendl / M. Schiefer Ferrari (ed.), Religion vernetzt 6, Munich, 2004, ed. 2010 and ed. 2012, p. 31 (c)
- Bilder aus Religion vernetzt 5 & 6, Munich, 2004, pl. 19 (c)
- Art Calendar and Reproduction 1972, Galerie Thomas, Munich (483 x 436 mm)
- Postcard, Joram Harel Management, Vienna, 1987
- Calendar: Hundertwasser 2001, Borer & Wörner, Zug (small size)
- Hundertwasser 2004 Calendar, Taschen, Cologne (repr. 2004-2009)
Hundertwasser's comment on the work
They say people have managed to run up house walls. It is only a change of 90 degrees. (from: Catalogue Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 1980, p. 258)
The horizontal belongs to nature, the vertical belongs to man. Actually, man should be able to walk up the walls the way he does over a meadow if this is the only surface he can claim for himself. That is why this surface is also a meadow interspersed with windows like little ponds. The windows are in the typically Viennese hot-water-bottle form, i.e., with keystones.
(from: Hundertwasser Architecture, Cologne, 1997, p. 33)
One would have to be able to walk up walls; only if you can walk up walls will you be lucky with women. (from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, p. 502)