2/internal/media/dispatcher/128006/full224 The Large Path1955[Friedensreich Hundertwasser]Friedensreich HundertwasserSynthetic resin on canvasLuminous red and luminous blue. The two colors form a spiral, painted by hand, with contours that are deliberately left open. The abstract form of the spiral is the central motif in the oeuvre of Friedensreich Hundertwasser. Like the meditative raked grooves in a Japanese Zen garden, it is a symbolic representation of life, of its organic growth and eventual passing over into the infinite that is death. The artist received seminal impulses for the idea of a dynamic conception of the world from the works of Lao Tzu and Buddhist and Taoist writings. A painter, architect, and environmental activist, Hundertwasser was far ahead of his time in his engagement with the “green” concerns to which his work owes its unfading relevance.Paintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/4246/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/28662/full167 The City1953[Friedensreich Hundertwasser]Friedensreich HundertwasserOil and casein on hardboardPaintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/9467/rdf