Lot No. 24


Friedensreich Hundertwasser*


Friedensreich Hundertwasser* - Modern and Contemporary Prints

(Vienna 1928-2000 Pacific Ocean, on board the QE II) "Hommage à Schröder-Sonnenstern", 1972, poster version, colour silk screen with embossed metal, signed with the Hundertwasser and Sonnenstern stamps, no. 1,339 of 4,200 prints, each stamped with number, image size 86 x 64.5 cm, sheet size 100 x 70 cm, framed, Koschatzky 715b, (EW)

“Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern (1892-1982) was undoubtedly one of the most remarkable outsiders of German contemporary art, a Berlin original from a dubious background, painter and drawer of surreal images (…) At the residence of his Hamburger friend, the collector Siegfried Poppe, (...) Hundertwasser saw the colour drawing Die moralische Praxis (Lebenszauberungselevin), a peculiar figuration of a standing, headless female figure, erotic, visionary, absurd, which Schröder-Sonnenstern 1959 had executed in 1959. (...)” (Walter Koschatzky, Friedensreich Hundertwasser. Das vollständige druckgrafische Werk 1951-1986, Orell Füssli, published by Zürich and Schwäbisch Hall, 1986, p.134)

Specialist: Mag. Elisabeth Wallner Mag. Elisabeth Wallner
+43-1-515 60-766

Elisabeth.Wallner@dorotheum.at

02.11.2016 - 17:00

Realized price: **
EUR 750.-
Starting bid:
EUR 500.-

Friedensreich Hundertwasser*


(Vienna 1928-2000 Pacific Ocean, on board the QE II) "Hommage à Schröder-Sonnenstern", 1972, poster version, colour silk screen with embossed metal, signed with the Hundertwasser and Sonnenstern stamps, no. 1,339 of 4,200 prints, each stamped with number, image size 86 x 64.5 cm, sheet size 100 x 70 cm, framed, Koschatzky 715b, (EW)

“Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern (1892-1982) was undoubtedly one of the most remarkable outsiders of German contemporary art, a Berlin original from a dubious background, painter and drawer of surreal images (…) At the residence of his Hamburger friend, the collector Siegfried Poppe, (...) Hundertwasser saw the colour drawing Die moralische Praxis (Lebenszauberungselevin), a peculiar figuration of a standing, headless female figure, erotic, visionary, absurd, which Schröder-Sonnenstern 1959 had executed in 1959. (...)” (Walter Koschatzky, Friedensreich Hundertwasser. Das vollständige druckgrafische Werk 1951-1986, Orell Füssli, published by Zürich and Schwäbisch Hall, 1986, p.134)

Specialist: Mag. Elisabeth Wallner Mag. Elisabeth Wallner
+43-1-515 60-766

Elisabeth.Wallner@dorotheum.at


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Auction: Modern and Contemporary Prints
Auction type: Saleroom auction
Date: 02.11.2016 - 17:00
Location: Vienna | Palais Dorotheum
Exhibition: 25.10. - 02.11.2016


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