Hundertwasser's comment on the work

Painting red in red. Transforming blood into green smoke. Making introverted meadow bottle windows dance on the ultramarine river. You don't dream just at night. When you dream in the daytime you have something to show for it, a lot is left over. (from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, p. 460)

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KREMATORIUM
CREMATORIUM
CREMATOIRE

Mixed media
La Picaudière, 1963
Painted at La Picaudière, May 1963
890 mm x 1160 mm
Mixed media: egg tempera and oil on paper, primed with chalk and PV; mounted on jute with PV
  • Travelling exhibition 1964/65:
  • Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, 1964
  • Kunsthalle Bern, 1964
  • Karl-Ernst-Osthaus-Museum, Hagen, 1964
  • Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1964
  • Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 1965
  • Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, 1965
  • *
  • Hammerlunds Kunsthandel, Oslo, 1965
  • Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1975
  • *
  • World Travelling Museum Exhibition:
  • 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
  • Secession, Vienna, 1981
  • Kulturhaus, 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
  • City Art Centre, Edinburgh, 1983
  • *
  • Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, 1998
  • Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle, Alençon, 2001
  • Jüdisches Museum, Rendsburg, 2008
  • Kirche zu St. Jakobi, Stralsund, 2009
  • Constructa 74, Hanover, 1974
  • Bouwbeurs (International Architectural Exhibit), Utrecht, 197
  • The Jewish Museum, New York, 1976
  • Jüdisches Museum, Vienna, 2006/07
  • P. Restany, Hundertwasser, New York, 1978, p. 99 (c)
  • H. Rand, Hundertwasser - Der Maler, Munich, 1986, pl. 73 (c), p. 166
  • A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, pp. 459-461 (and c)
  • F. Hundertwasser / P. Restany, Hundertwasser, New York, 2008, pp. 36/37 (c)
  • Briefmarkenbuch, Vienna, 2008, (c)
  • Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, 1964, pp. 30 (c), 207
  • Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 1964, cat. 107
  • Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, 1965, cat. 119
  • Hammerlunds Kunsthandel, Oslo, 1965, cat. 20
  • Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1975, p. 207 (c)
  • Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw, 1976, p. 207 (c)
  • Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, 1979, cat. 166
  • Seedamm-Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon/Lake Zurich, 1979, p. 207 (c)
  • Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 1980, p. 235 (c)
  • Secession, Vienna, 1981, p. 235 (c)
  • Kulturhaus, Graz, 1981, p. 235 (c)
  • Neue Berliner Galerie, East Berlin, 1981, p. 29
  • Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, 1998, pp. 78/79 (c)
  • Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle, Alençon, 2001, p. 41 (c)
  • Leaflet, Jüdisches Museum, Vienna, 2006/07 (c)
  • Jüdisches Museum, Vienna, 2006, p. 131 (c)
  • Jüdische Aspekte, Jüdisches Museum, Rendsburg, 2008, pp. 22 (c), 41
  • S. Wille, Träume sind große Taten, Vienna, 1993, p. 49 (c)
  • Art International, no. VIII/10, Dec. 1964, p. 34 (c)
  • Svenska Dagbladet, Dec. 27, 1964 (c)
  • Dagbladet, May 28, 1965, Oslo (b)
  • Kunst Kultur, no. 3, 1965, Oslo, p. 130 (b)
  • Kulturgeschichten.WIEN, no. 3, 2017, Vienna, pp. 5 (c) and 47 (c)
  • Hundertwasser 2004 Calendar, Taschen, Cologne (and reprints)
  • Hundertwasser 2012 Calendar, Taschen, Cologne (and reprints)