Hundertwasser's comment on the work

The picture has two equivalent 180-degree sides. The sky is at the top and bottom. (from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, p. 345)

330/I
FLYING SKYSCRAPERS
FLIEGENDE WOLKENKRATZER
GRATTE-CIEL EN VOL

Watercolour

formerly: 330 FLOATING TOWN

Hahnsäge, 1987
Work 330 was begun as a textile design, Milan - Zurich, March - April 1955 - finished in Paris and Vienna, December 1957
Repainted in autumn 1987: 330/I with watercolour, egg tempera, acrylic, oil, lacquer
Gold and silver leaf applied by Ralf Wittig, Zwettl.
540 mm x 680 mm
Watercolour on drawing paper, partly primed with chalk, zinc white and fish glue, painted over with watercolour (49 x 67 cm).
Mounted on canvas in July 1987, with polyvinyl and wallpaper glue, chassis enlarged (54 x 68 cm).
  • Galerie St. Stephan, Vienna, 1957 (330)
  • Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, 1965 (330)
  • Galerie Paul Facchetti, Paris, 1974 (330)
  • KunstHausWien, April 1991 - June 1998 (330/I)
  • ART 20 '89, Basel, 1989
  • R. Koyanagi (ed.), Mujinkan 1 - Hundertwasser, Tokyo, 1988, p. 3, p. 57 (c, 330/I), p. 70
  • Contemporary Great Masters: Hundertwasser, Tokyo 1993, pl. 59 (c, 330/I), p. 111
  • A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, pp. 345/346 (and c)
  • Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, 1964, p. 161 (330)
  • Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, 1965, cat. 67 (330)
  • Postcard-Catalogue, Galerie Paul Facchetti, Paris, 1974, cat. 12 (c, 330)
  • ART 20'89, Die 20. internationale Kunstmesse, Basel, 1989, p. 127 (c, 330/I)
  • Das Beste aus Reader's Digest, no. 492, Aug. 1989, p. 67 (c, 330/I)
  • Reader's Digest, no. 8, Aug. 1989, Zurich, p. 61 (c, 330/I)
  • Reader's Digest Det Bästa, no. 8, Aug. 1990, p. 50 (c, 330/I)
  • Reader's Digest, no. 822, Oct. 1990, New Zealand, p. 103 (c, 330/I)
  • Reader's Digest, no. 822, Oct. 1990, Australia p. 159 (c, 330/I)
  • Reader's Digest Het Beste, Nov. 1990, p. 48 (c, 330/I)
  • Reader's Digest, Det Beste, June 1991, Copenhagen, p. 42 (c, 330/I)
  • Reader's Digest, Det Beste, Jan. 1991, Norway, p. 69 (c, 330/I)
  • Reader's Digest, no. 830, June 1991, Great Britain, p. 85 (c, 330/I)
  • Reader's Digest, Válogatás, Oct. 1993, Budapest, p. 68 (c, 330/I)
  • Postcard, Joram Harel Management, Vienna, 1988 (330/I)
  • Art Calendar, 1989, Wörner (July, big size)
  • Art Agenda 1989, caesar Art International, Stuttgart
  • Hundertwasser art Agenda 1990, caesar Art International, Stuttgart
  • Hundertwasser Art Jahrbuch 1991, caesar Art International, Stuttgart
  • Hundertwasser art clou 1991, caesar International Art, Stuttgart
  • Art Calendar 1993, B. Wörner, Rutesheim (56 x 49 cm and 26 x 23 cm, October)
  • Hundertwasser Art Calendar 1995, Verlag Galerie Welz, Salzburg, February
  • Hundertwasser 2004 Calendar, Taschen, Cologne
  • Calendar, Hundertwasser Jahrbuch 2008, Borer & Wörner, Zug
  • Hundertwasser Diary 2014, Wörner, Rutesheim