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DROIT DE CREER
Right to Create
Kaurinui, 1983
Painted in Kaurinui, March 16, 1983
310 mm x 250 mm
Watercolour on white primed paper
- Travelling exhibition 1989:
- Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, 1989
- Iwaki City Art Museum, 1989
- Ohara Museum of Art, 1989
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- KunstHausWien, Vienna, since April 1991
- Borek Ladengeschäft am Dom, Braunschweig, 1996
- Philatelia T'card '97, Cologne, 1997
- Marke + Münze, Graz, 2001
- Egon Schiele Museum, Tulln, 2004
- Szépmüvészeti Museum, Budapest, 2007/08
- Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar, 2008
- H. Rand, Hundertwasser, Cologne 1991, p. 232 (c) and ed. 1993, p. 194 (c)
- Contemporary Great Masters: Hundertwasser, Tokyo, 1993, p. 87 (b)
- W. Schmied, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2000, Vol. I, p. 259 (c)
- Hundertwasser - Das Paradies liegt um die Ecke, Munich, 2002, p. 25 (c)
- A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, pp. 646/647 (and c)
- Travelling exhibition 1989: Japan, cat. 62 (b)
- Minoritenkloster, Tulln, 2004, p. 137 (c)
- A Magical Eccentric, Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, 2007, pp. 82 (c), 176
- Cultures 36, Dialogue between the peoples of the world, Unesco, Paris, 1985, p. 67 (b)
- J. Mertus, The United Nations and Human Rights, New York, 2009, cover (c)
- Wiener, KunstHausWien Extra, n.d., Klosterneuburg, p. 15 (c)
Hundertwasser's comment on the work
RIGHT TO CREATE
Creation is the foremost human condition. The right to creation is more important than the right to food.
If man does not create or is impeded to create, man ceases to fulfil human functions because he loses his justification to be present on this earth as a higher being.
Our real illiteracy is not the incapability to read and write but the incapability to create.
The children and the so-called primitives and the so-called fools have a bigger knowledge to create until they lose their soul by uniformation, education and convention.