“Sun for Those Who Weep in the Country,” by Friedensriech Hundertwasser. The new Albertina Modern has a room dedicated to Hundertwasser’s work. Credit…NAMIDA AG, Glarus/Schweiz; The ESSL Collection.
I’m fond of the colorful, map-like painting by the Austrian Hundertwasser. Also, of the sun figure that recurs in his work.
Left, to right: Hundertwasser’s “City Seen From Beyond the Sun” (1955); “The Light Weight,” a sculpture by Oswald Oberhuber; and “Untitled” (1953-4) by Arnulf Rainer, in the Albertina Modern. Credit… David Payr for The New York Times.
“These artists have something in common: They all turned against the ideals of the Third Reich… I’m doing a kind of exorcism… Exactly here, where ‘degenerate art’ was shown, I’m showing artists who after 1945 declared war on the degeneracy of war.” (Klaus Albrecht Schröder, the Albertina’s general director)
(Kimberly Bradley, “A Big Idea and a Big Donor Bring a New Art Museum to Austria,” NYTimes, 3-11-20)
I live in Texas and devote much of my time to easel painting on an amateur basis. I stream a lot of music, mostly jazz, throughout the day. I like to read and memorize poetry.
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‘The Degeneracy of War’
I’m fond of the colorful, map-like painting by the Austrian Hundertwasser. Also, of the sun figure that recurs in his work.
“These artists have something in common: They all turned against the ideals of the Third Reich… I’m doing a kind of exorcism… Exactly here, where ‘degenerate art’ was shown, I’m showing artists who after 1945 declared war on the degeneracy of war.”
(Klaus Albrecht Schröder, the Albertina’s general director)
(Kimberly Bradley, “A Big Idea and a Big Donor Bring a New Art Museum to Austria,” NYTimes, 3-11-20)
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I live in Texas and devote much of my time to easel painting on an amateur basis. I stream a lot of music, mostly jazz, throughout the day. I like to read and memorize poetry.