Hundertwasser's comment on the work

The picture is important to me because it is the only one done on a white ground - on canvas - which my mother prepared herself. She wanted to paint on it, but then she died. Then the prepared canvas was kicking around my place for years. After my mother tried at all costs to talk me out of taking up painting as my profession: that was a "starveling's trade", she later, at about age seventy, took up painting herself, I think to prove to me that she could paint, too, in the naive style of Grandma Moses, who, at a very advanced age, after a full life, began to paint in her retirement and became a sensation in the art world. Grandma Moses painted until she was over a hundred years old; my mother died at 87. (from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, pp. 696-697)

959
BURNING FACE
FLIEGENDES ERDGESICHT - KOPF IN FLAMMEN

Mixed media
Vienna, 1998
Begun 1989, painted 1996-1998, finished Vienna, 1998
500 mm x 800 mm
Mixed media: watercolour, egg tempera, acrylic, oil on canvas bought by the artist's mother before 1970, white priming; gold and silver leaf applied by Ralf Wittig, Zwettl
  • Travelling exhibition 1999:
  • Takamatsu City Museum of Art, 1999
  • Nagoya City Art Museum, 1999
  • Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, 1999
  • The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, 1999
  • *
  • Die Galerie, Frankfurt, 2001
  • KunstHausWien, Vienna, September 2007 - March 2016
  • KunstHausWien, Vienna, November 2016 - March 23, 2017
  • A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, pp. 696/697 (and c)
  • Travelling exhibition 1999: Japan, pp. 47 (c), 123
  • Die Galerie, Frankfurt, 2001, pp. 12/13 (c)
  • A pszichiátria magyar kézikönyve, Budapest, 2009, p. 2 (c)
  • Watercolor, no. 14, n.p., 2000, p. 25
  • Postcard, Gruener Janura AG, Glarus, 2001
  • Hundertwasser 2004 Calendar, Taschen, Cologne
  • 2004 Hundertwasser Diary Jahrbuch, Borer & Wörner, Zug
  • Calendar, Hundertwasser 2008, teNeues, Kempen
  • Calendar, Hundertwasser Jahrbuch 2008, Borer & Wörner, Zug
  • Hundertwasser Agenda, Wörner, Rutesheim, 2008
  • Hundertwasser Diary 2009, Wörner, Rutesheim
  • Hundertwasser Diary 2010, Wörner, Rutesheim
  • Hundertwasser Diary 2014, Wörner, Rutesheim