APA 225/I
PEACE FLAG FOR THE HOLY LAND
FRIEDENSFAHNE FÜR DAS GELOBTE LAND

Flag design
1990
Rueff Textildruck, Muntlix, Austria (flag)
March 1, 1990
29.3 x 20.9 cm
Watercolour and ink on paper
Signed bottom: Dein Hundertwasser / I-III-90
Private collection, Vienna
KunstHausWien, Vienna

Hundertwasser created a second design for a peace flag to meet the objection of the Israeli author and peace activist Uri Avnary that the symbol of the half-moon did not apply to all Palestinians, as there were also Christians among the Palestinians..
This flag does not make use of the iconography of the star of David and the half-moon, and instead uses the colours green and blue exclusively. The blue stands for sky and water, as well as for the spirit of infinity. Green is the colour of vegetation, of fertile earth and of hope. Just as blue and green are united in this flag, it calls for tolerance and reconciliation.

mehr weniger
  • A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, pp. 1057/1058 (and c)
  • F. Hundertwasser / P. Restany, Hundertwasser, New York, 2008, p. 111 (c)