... for his art. The ever present water yields patterns and reflections in the colorful light, the clothes that hang from windows offer the eye a dizzying array of jumbled colors, and the natural aging of the buildings make mold and decay strangely beautiful. Hundertwasser has drawn inspiration from Arabic music and the underlying harmonies of nature. In both of these fields, he relishes their apparent irregularities and accidental qualities. A copy of Gustav Klimt's "Kiss" and Egon Schiele's "Self Portrait" hang in Hundertwasser's home, giving physical representation to the admiration which he has expressed both in word and through his art. Hundertwasser follows in the tradition of the Viennese Seccesionstil which was the Austrian expression of the French Art Nouveau and German Jugendstil, continuing their purpose of employing art as decoration. His richness of surface and use of color suggest Klimt, while his scrubbed brushstrokes and moldy colors are reminiscent of ...

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