Hundertwasser's comment on the work

I pressed flowers in books, and then they withered. So I thought it would be better to paint them, because then they would keep their appearance and colour. (from: Cat. Albertina, Vienna, 1974, p. 42).

JW 26
XVI
PORTULAK RÖS'CHEN
PURSLANE
ROSE POURPIER

Watercolour
Vienna, 1943
Painted in Vienna, Obere Donaustraße, September 1943
110 mm x 110 mm
Pencil and watercolour on paper
KunstHausWien, Vienna

  • Albertina, Vienna, 1974
  • Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1975
  • World Travelling Museum Exhibition:
  • Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1975
  • Musée de l'Etat, Luxembourg, 1975
  • Musée Cantini, Marseille, 1975
  • A.S.U. Hall, Cairo, 1975
  • The Tel Aviv Museum, 1976
  • Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw, 1976
  • National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, 1976
  • Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, 1976
  • Musée Dynamique, Dakar, 1976
  • Seibu Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 1977
  • Yokohama Citizen's Gallery, 1977
  • Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1977
  • South African National Gallery, Cape Town, 1977
  • Pretoria Art Museum, 1977
  • Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, 1977
  • Museu de Arte, São Paulo, 1977
  • Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, 1977
  • Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, 1978
  • Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montreal, 1978
  • Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1978
  • Mücsarnok, Budapest, 1978
  • Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, 1979
  • Seedamm-Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon/Lake Zurich, 1979
  • Palazzo Barberini, Rome, 1980
  • Palazzo Reale, Milan, 1980
  • Henie/Onstad Stiftelser Kunstsentret, Høvikodden,1980
  • Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 1980/81
  • Sesession, Vienna, 1981
  • Kuturhaus, Graz, 1981
  • Neue Berliner Galerie, East Berlin, 1981
  • Helsingin kaupungin taidemuseo, Helsinki, 1981
  • Sala Dalles, Bucharest, 1981/82
  • Schipka Gallery, Sofia, 1982
  • Barbican Art Gallery, London, 1983
  • City Art Gallery, York, 1983
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  • KunstHausWien, Vienna, April 1991 - February 2013
  • H. Rand, Hundertwasser - Der Maler, Munich, 1986, pl. 7 (c), p. 164
  • H. Rand, Hundertwasser, Cologne, 1991, p. 10 (c)
  • A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, pp. 81/82 (and c)
  • Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, 1964, p. 84
  • Albertina, Vienna, 1974, pp. 43 (c), 156
  • Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1975, p. 57 (c)
  • Musée de l'Etat, Luxembourg, 1975, p. 57 (c)
  • Musée Cantini, Marseille, 1975, p. 57 (c)
  • A.S.U. Hall, Cairo, 1975, p. 57 (c)
  • The Tel Aviv Museum, 1976, p. 59 (c)
  • National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, 1976, p. 59 (c)
  • Supplementary edition Reykjavik, 1976, p. 23
  • Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, 1976, p. 57 (c)
  • Supplementary edition no. 2, Copenhagen, 1976, p. 10
  • Musée Dynamique, Dakar, 1976, p. 57 (c)
  • Seibu Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 1977, p. 59 (c)
  • South African National Gallery, Cape Town / Pretoria Art Museum, 1977, p. 59 (c)
  • Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro / Museu de Arte, São Paulo / Palácio Itamaraty, Brasilia, 1977, p. 59 (c)
  • Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, 1977, p. 59 (c)
  • Supplementary edition Caracas, 1977, cat. Grabados 66
  • Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, 1978, p. 59 (c)
  • Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montreal, 1978, p. 57 (c)
  • Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1978, p. 59 (c)
  • Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1978, p. 57 (c)
  • Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, 1979, cat. 6
  • Palazzo Barberini, Rome, 1980, p. 59 (c)
  • Sonja Henies og Niels Onstads Stiftelser Kunstsentret, Høvikodden, 1980, p. 59 (c)
  • Neue Berliner Galerie, East Berlin, 1981, p. 25
  • Helsingin kaupungin taidemuseo, Helsinki, 1981, p. 59 (c)
  • Barbican Art Gallery, London, 1983, p. 59 (c)
  • H. Hartwig, Jugendkultur, Reinbek bei Hamburg, 1980, p. 179 (b)