Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928 - 2000)

Um und Um bemalter Sessel mit Koboldkopf auf der Sesselfläche

Chair Painted on All Sides with a Goblin Head on the Chair Seat
November 1952
    Oil on wood primed with chalk, zinc white and fish glue
  • Artist’s archive n°148
87.3 × 45.5 × 47.5 cm
Provenance

Peter Rindl, Vienna and Tokyo

J.J. Aberbach, New York

Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva

Private collection, since 1971

Exhibited

Vienna, Art Club, Hundertwasser, 10 – 30 January 1953

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Métamorphose de l’objet: Art et anti-art 1910-1970, 22 April – 6 June 1971, exhibition catalogue, 156, no. 176, b/w ill. p. 139 (the exhibition travelled to: Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen / Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Milan, Palazzo Reale / Basel, Kunsthalle / Paris, Musée des Arts décoratifs)

Andros, Museum of Contemporary Art-Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation, Glancing at the Century, 28 June – 20 September 1998, pp. 140-141, ill. p. 141

Literature

“Métamorphose des dinges,” La Connaisance, Brussels, 1971, b/w ill. p. 147

Current location
Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation, Athens
Floor 2nd
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
(1928 - 2000)
Gender
Man
Nationality
Austrian
First Name
Friedrich
Last Name
Stowasser
Birth
Vienna, Austria, 1928
Death
Pacific Ocean, 2000