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Hundertwasser – schiele imagine tomorrow

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Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928–2000) shaped 20th-century art beyond the borders of Austria as a painter, designer of living spaces and pioneer of the environmental movement.

His life-long, intense exploration of the personality and oeuvre of Egon Schiele (1890–1918) is largely unknown.

At the age of 20, when he was a student at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, the artist discovered Viennese Modernism through exhibitions and books: Schiele, especially, would later become a central point of reference for the internationally active artist.

Hundertwasser honed his draftsmanship by studying Schiele’s drawings, successfully propagated Schiele’s art amongst his fellow artists in Paris, and in 1965 gave one of his works the title 622 Mourning Egon Schiele. Until his death, Hundertwasser surrounded himself in his studios and homes in Venice and New Zealand with reproductions of paintings and drawings by his highly esteemed fellow artist. Hundertwasser’s poetic text “I Love Schiele”, written in 1951, illustrates the extent to which he related to the artist: “I often dream like Schiele, my father, about flowers that are red, and birds and flying fish and gardens in velvet and emerald green and human beings who walk, weeping, in red-yellow and ocean-blue.” 20 years after Hundertwasser’s death, the #leopoldmuseum is dedicating an exhibition, conceived as a dialogue, to these two iconic artists, which comprises some 170 exhibits.

Shining the spotlight on central motifs and themes in the works of both artists, such as ensouled nature and the relationship between the individual and society, the exhibition illustrates analogies in their oeuvres that go beyond formal similarities. Through eminent loans from Austrian and international collections and archival material published for the first time, the exhibition retraces the artistic and spiritual kinship of two extraordinary Austrian 20th-century artists statt 20th-century Austrian artists, who never had the chance to meet and yet had so much in common.

The exhibition was created in cooperation with the Hundertwasser Non-Profit Foundation Vienna.

CATALOGUE: HUNDERTWASSER – SCHIELE. IMAGINE TOMORROW
Authors: Robert Fleck, Alexandra Matzner, Bazon Brock, Hans-Peter Wipplinger
Binding: Hardcover | Pages: 272 | Illustrations: c. 200 | Languages: German/English, bilingual
Publishers: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne | Sales price: EUR 29,90
EGON SCHIELE 1890–1918
“Dead Mother” I, 1910
Oil, pencil on wood, 32.1 × 25.7 cm
Leopold Museum, Vienna
Photo: #leopoldmuseum, Vienna/
Manfred Thumberger
EGON SCHIELE 1890–1918
“Shrines in the Forest” II, 1915
Oil, pencil on wood, 100 × 120 cm
Kunsthaus Zug, Stiftung Sammlung Kamm
Photo: Kunsthaus Zug, Alfred Frommenwiler
FRIEDENSREICH HUNDERTWASSER 1928–2000
622 Mourning Schiele, Lugano, 1965
Mixed media, 116 × 73 cm
The Hundertwasser Non-Profit Foundation Vienna
Photo: 2019 Namida AG, Glarus, Switzerland
© 2019 Namida AG, Glarus, Switzerland
FRIEDENSREICH HUNDERTWASSER 1928–2000
224 The Big Way (Le grand chemin),
St. Mandé/Seine, 1955
Mixed media, 158 × 158 cm
Belvedere, Vienna
Photo: Johannes Stoll
© 2019 Namida AG, Glarus, Switzerland
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