Hundertwasser – Schiele

Imagine Tomorrow

21.02.2020 – 31.08.2020

EXTENDED UNTIL JAN 1ST!

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  • FRIEDENSREICH HUNDERTWASSER, 224 The Big Way, 1955 © Belvedere, Vienna Photo: Belvedere, Vienna/Johannes Stoll © 2020 Namida AG, Glarus, Switzerland
  • Egon Schiele, Dead Mother I, 1910 © Leopold Museum, Vienna, Photo: Leopold Museum, Vienna/Manfred Thumberger
  • FRIEDENSREICH HUNDERTWASSER 107 Self-Portrait, 1951 © The Hundertwasser Non-Profit Foundation, Vienna Photo: Leopold Museum, Vienna/Manfred Thumberger © 2020 Namida AG, Glarus, Switzerland
  • EGON SCHIELE, Self-Portrait with Raised Bare Shoulder, 1912 © Leopold Museum, Vienna Photo: Leopold Museum, Vienna/Manfred Thumberger
  • FRIEDENSREICH HUNDERTWASSER, 170 The Garden of the Happy Dead, 1953 © Private collection © 2020 Namida AG, Glarus, Switzerland
  • EGON SCHIELE, Shrines in the Forest II, 1915 © Kunsthaus Zug, Stiftung Sammlung Kamm, Photo: Kunsthaus Zug, Alfred Frommenwiler
  • FRIEDENSREICH HUNDERTWASSER, 127 Alpine Huts on Green Spot, 1951 © The Hundertwasser Non-Profit Foundation, Vienna Photo: Leopold Museum, Vienna/Manfred Thumberger © 2020 Namida AG, Glarus, Switzerland
  • Egon Schiele, Crescent of Houses ll ("Island Town") © Leopold Museum, Vienna, Photo: Leopold Museum, Vienna/Manfred Thumberger
  • EGON SCHIELE, The Small Town III, 1913 © Leopold Museum, Vienna Photo: Leopold Museum, Vienna/Manfred Thumberger
  • FRIEDENSREICH HUNDERTWASSER, 435 Shelter, 1960 © Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice  Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York Photo: Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice © 2020 Namida AG, Glarus, Switzerland
  • FRIEDENSREICH HUNDERTWASSER, Mourning Schiele, 1965 © The Hundertwasser Non-Profit Foundation, Vienna, Photo: Leopold Museum, Vienna/Manfred Thumberger © 2020 Namida AG, Glarus, Switzerland
  • ERHARD WEHRMANN, Friedensreich Hundertwasser in front of one of his works, Venice, 1962 © Hundertwasser Archive, Vienna © Nachlass Erhard Wehrmann, courtesy Kunststiftung Poll, Berlin
  • STEFAN MOSES, Friedensreich Hundertwasser in his study at his residence “Hahnsäge” © Hundertwasser Archive, Vienna, Photo: Leopold Museum, Vienna/Manfred Thumberger © fotografie stefan moses
  • PETER FEMFERT, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Venice 1983 © Photo: Peter Femfert, DIE GALERIE Frankfurt am Main
  • JOHANNES FISCHER, Egon Schiele with the painting Shrines in the Forest II in the background, 1915 © Leopold, Private Collection, Photo: Leopold Museum, Vienna/Manfred Thumberger
  • FRIEDENSREICH HUNDERTWASSER, 224 The Big Way, 1955 © Belvedere, Vienna Photo: Belvedere, Vienna/Johannes Stoll © 2020 Namida AG, Glarus, Switzerland
    Egon Schiele, Dead Mother I, 1910 © Leopold Museum, Vienna, Photo: Leopold Museum, Vienna/Manfred Thumberger
    FRIEDENSREICH HUNDERTWASSER 107 Self-Portrait, 1951 © The Hundertwasser Non-Profit Foundation, Vienna Photo: Leopold Museum, Vienna/Manfred Thumberger © 2020 Namida AG, Glarus, Switzerland
  • EGON SCHIELE, Self-Portrait with Raised Bare Shoulder, 1912 © Leopold Museum, Vienna Photo: Leopold Museum, Vienna/Manfred Thumberger
    FRIEDENSREICH HUNDERTWASSER, 170 The Garden of the Happy Dead, 1953 © Private collection © 2020 Namida AG, Glarus, Switzerland
    EGON SCHIELE, Shrines in the Forest II, 1915 © Kunsthaus Zug, Stiftung Sammlung Kamm, Photo: Kunsthaus Zug, Alfred Frommenwiler
  • FRIEDENSREICH HUNDERTWASSER, 127 Alpine Huts on Green Spot, 1951 © The Hundertwasser Non-Profit Foundation, Vienna Photo: Leopold Museum, Vienna/Manfred Thumberger © 2020 Namida AG, Glarus, Switzerland
    Egon Schiele, Crescent of Houses ll ("Island Town") © Leopold Museum, Vienna, Photo: Leopold Museum, Vienna/Manfred Thumberger
    EGON SCHIELE, The Small Town III, 1913 © Leopold Museum, Vienna Photo: Leopold Museum, Vienna/Manfred Thumberger
  • FRIEDENSREICH HUNDERTWASSER, 435 Shelter, 1960 © Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice  Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York Photo: Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice © 2020 Namida AG, Glarus, Switzerland
    FRIEDENSREICH HUNDERTWASSER, Mourning Schiele, 1965 © The Hundertwasser Non-Profit Foundation, Vienna, Photo: Leopold Museum, Vienna/Manfred Thumberger © 2020 Namida AG, Glarus, Switzerland
    ERHARD WEHRMANN, Friedensreich Hundertwasser in front of one of his works, Venice, 1962 © Hundertwasser Archive, Vienna © Nachlass Erhard Wehrmann, courtesy Kunststiftung Poll, Berlin
  • STEFAN MOSES, Friedensreich Hundertwasser in his study at his residence “Hahnsäge” © Hundertwasser Archive, Vienna, Photo: Leopold Museum, Vienna/Manfred Thumberger © fotografie stefan moses
    PETER FEMFERT, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Venice 1983 © Photo: Peter Femfert, DIE GALERIE Frankfurt am Main
    JOHANNES FISCHER, Egon Schiele with the painting Shrines in the Forest II in the background, 1915 © Leopold, Private Collection, Photo: Leopold Museum, Vienna/Manfred Thumberger
  • Exhibition view Hundertwasser – Schiele. Imagine Tomorrow © Leopold Museum, Vienna  Photo: Lisa Rastl
  • Exhibition view 2 Hundertwasser – Schiele. Imagine Tomorrow © Leopold Museum, Vienna  Photo: Lisa Rastl
  • Exhibition view 3 Hundertwasser – Schiele. Imagine Tomorrow © Leopold Museum, Vienna, Photo: Lisa Rastl
  • Ausstellungsansicht 4 Hundertwasser – Schiele. Imagine Tomorrow © Leopold Museum, Wien, Foto: Lisa Rastl
  • Exhibitionview 5 Hundertwasser – Schiele. Imagine Tomorrow © Leopold Museum, Vienna, Photo: Lisa Rastl
  • Exhibition view, Hundertwasser – Schiele. Imagine Tomorrow © Leopold Museum, Vienna, Photo: Lisa Rastl
  • Exhibition view Hundertwasser – Schiele. Imagine Tomorrow © Leopold Museum, Vienna Photo: Lisa Rastl
  • Exhibition view 8 Hundertwasser – Schiele. Imagine Tomorrow © Leopold Museum, Vienna, Photo: Lisa Rastl
  • Exhibitionview 9 Hundertwasser – Schiele. Imagine Tomorrow © Leopold Museum, Vienna, Photo: Lisa Rastl
  • Exhibition view Hundertwasser – Schiele. Imagine Tomorrow © Leopold Museum, Vienna  Photo: Lisa Rastl
    Exhibition view 2 Hundertwasser – Schiele. Imagine Tomorrow © Leopold Museum, Vienna  Photo: Lisa Rastl
    Exhibition view 3 Hundertwasser – Schiele. Imagine Tomorrow © Leopold Museum, Vienna, Photo: Lisa Rastl
  • Ausstellungsansicht 4 Hundertwasser – Schiele. Imagine Tomorrow © Leopold Museum, Wien, Foto: Lisa Rastl
    Exhibitionview 5 Hundertwasser – Schiele. Imagine Tomorrow © Leopold Museum, Vienna, Photo: Lisa Rastl
    Exhibition view, Hundertwasser – Schiele. Imagine Tomorrow © Leopold Museum, Vienna, Photo: Lisa Rastl
  • Exhibition view Hundertwasser – Schiele. Imagine Tomorrow © Leopold Museum, Vienna Photo: Lisa Rastl
    Exhibition view 8 Hundertwasser – Schiele. Imagine Tomorrow © Leopold Museum, Vienna, Photo: Lisa Rastl
    Exhibitionview 9 Hundertwasser – Schiele. Imagine Tomorrow © Leopold Museum, Vienna, Photo: Lisa Rastl
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FRIEDENSREICH HUNDERTWASSER, 224 The Big Way, 1955 © Belvedere, Vienna Photo: Belvedere, Vienna/Johannes Stoll © 2020 Namida AG, Glarus, Switzerland

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.”

Today, 20 years after Hundertwasser’s death, the Leopold Museum 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 20th-century Austrian artists, who never had the chance to meet.

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