Hundertwasser's comment on the work

When one develops one`s thoughts, they get going in odd directions, and the same familiar shapes and colours condense to form more and more new shapes; just as a river flows or clouds form, branches spread out. I used this painting for the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo; it is a kind of ski-jump-downhill-reverse course. (from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, p. 606)

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THE END OF THE ROAD
ENDE DER STRASSE
FIN DE ROUTE

Mixed media
Vienna, 1978
Painted in Kaurinui, N.Z., April 1977 - Vienna, February 1978
1220 mm x 810 mm
Mixed media: watercolour, egg tempera, oil, lacquer on plywood with chalk priming; two horizontal panels, each: 610 x 810 mm
  • World Travelling Museum Exhibition:
  • Palais des Beaux-Art, Brussels, 1978
  • Mücsarnok, Budapest, 1978
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  • Travelling exhibition 1979-1981:
  • Aberbach Fine Art, New York, 1979
  • Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, 1980
  • Galerie Brockstedt, Hamburg, 1980
  • Hammerlunds Kunsthandel, Oslo, 1980
  • Galerie Würthle, Vienna, 1981
  • Art Fair, Basel, 1979
  • FIAC, Paris, 1980
  • H. Brockstedt (ed.), Ao Tea Roa, Hamburg, 1979 (c)
  • R. Koyanagi (ed.), Mujinkan 1 - Hundertwasser, Tokyo, 1988, pp. 48 (c), 70
  • Hundertwasser - Das Paradies liegt um die Ecke, Munich, 2002, p. 13 (c)
  • A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, pp. 606/607 (and c)
  • Travelling exhibition 1979-1981: Hundertwasser Is Painting (c)
  • Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 1980, p. 345 (c)
  • Secession, Vienna, 1981, p. 345 (c)
  • Kulturhaus, Graz, 1981, p. 345 (c)
  • Mobil Oil Austria AG (ed.), Österreicher die der Welt gehören, Vienna, 1979, p. 95 (c)
  • Österreich Moderne Malerei, 1980, no. 25 (c)
  • Spiegelungen 4, Lesebuch, Vienna, 1991, cover (c)
  • S. Wille, Träume sind große Taten, Vienna, 1993, p. 63 (c)
  • arts, no. 194, Sept. 1979, Paris, p. 16 (c)
  • Österreich Moderne Malerei, 1980, no. 25 (c)
  • Wochenpresse, no. 3, Jan. 21, 1981, Vienna, p. 41 (c)
  • Milliyet Sanat Dergisi, Yeni Dizi 23, May 2, 1981, p. 32 (c)
  • Art Calendar, Hundertwasser 1980, Verlag Galerie Welz, Salzburg (May)
  • Postcard, Gruener Janura AG, Glarus, 1981
  • Fineart Calendar, Hundertwasser 1982, Buchheim Verlag, Feldafing (July)
  • Hundertwasser Calendar 1982, Verlag Galerie Welz, Salzburg (March)
  • Art Calendar 1994: 20th Century Austrian Art, AVL, Graz (February, 595 x 420/468 x 304 mm)
  • Hundertwasser 2004 Calendar, Taschen, Cologne (and reprints)
  • Hundertwasser Pocket Art 2009, Wörner, Rutesheim
  • Calendar, Hundertwasser Art 2010, teNeues, Kempen
  • Hundertwasser Pocket Notes, Wörner, Rutesheim, 2011
  • Hundertwasser Pocket Art 2012, Wörner, Rutesheim
  • Hundertwasser 2012 Calendar, Taschen, Cologne (and reprints)
  • Hundertwasser Diary 2015, Wörner, Rutesheim
  • Hundertwasser Agenda 2020, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim