By Hundertwasser
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Original Serigraph by Austrian/New Zealand artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928-2000)
Title: Night Train, 1978
Technique: Serigraph in 10 Colors with Metallic Imprints in 2 or 3 colors respectively.
Printed by: Claudio Barbato, Venedig / Venice, Spinea, und Giorgio Verrati, Venedig / Venice
Edition: 285. Signed and num. - 1-285/285, XC proofs and collages, signed and num. I-XC/XC
This print is numbered lower left: 103/285 and is Variation 2.
Signed: Signature in ink by the artist’s hand with date - lower left.
Sheet size:19.3 x 26.4 in (555 x 730 mm)
Published by: Gruener Janura AG , Glarus , 1978 - Switzerland
Condition: Excellent Condition.
The item is floated in a black mat measuring 30 x 36 inches and is unframed.
Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser was an Austrian-born New Zealand artist and architect who worked also in the field of environmental protection. His best-known work is considered Hundertwasserhaus in Vienna, Austria which has become a notable place of interest in the Austrian capital characterized by imaginative vitality and uniqueness.
The Second World War was a very difficult time for Hundertwasser and his mother Elsa, who were Jewish. They avoided persecution by posing as Christians, a credible ruse as Hundertwasser's father had been a Catholic. Hundertwasser was baptized as a Catholic in 1935. To remain inconspicuous Hundertwasser also joined the Hitler Youth.
Hundertwasser developed artistic skills early on. After the war, he spent three months at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Hundertwasser's first commercial painting success was in 1952–53 with an exhibition in Vienna.
In the early 1950s, he entered the field of architecture. Hundertwasser also worked in the field of applied art, creating flags, stamps, coins, and posters. In 1957 Hundertwasser acquired a farm on the edge of Normandy. In 1964 Hundertwasser bought "Hahnsäge", a former saw mill, in the sparsely populated Lower Austria's Waldviertel. In the 1970s, Hundertwasser acquired several properties in the Bay of Islands in New Zealand. There he realized his dream of living and working closely connected to nature. In 1979 Hundertwasser bought the vast historical garden Giardino Eden including the Palazzo Villa delle Rose, from Alexandra of Yugoslavia via his Swiss company. In 1980, Hundertwasser visited Washington D.C. to support activist Ralph Nader's efforts to oppose nuclear proliferation. Mayor Marion Barry declared November 18 to be Hundertwasser Day. In 1982 Hundertwasser's only child, his daughter Heidi Trimmel, was born.
Hundertwasser was buried in New Zealand after his death at sea on the RMS Queen Elizabeth 2...
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1970s Vintage Hundertwasser Prints