Munich 1972 Summer Olympics poster designed by Austrian visual artist and architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928-2000), silk screen in 21 colors with metal embossings in 5 colours on heavy tarred brown paper, ed. 1299/3999

sight: 40 x 25 in., frame: 42 x 27 in.

From the artist: "An odd premonition: the drops of blood on the poster I painted before the massacre during the Olympic Games... In the middle of it I painted in the orthodox church which 'Father Timofey', a self-willed, self-proclaimed Russian-orthodox priest, had built in defiance of any building permit right in the middle of where the Olympic Games were to take place. However, the love of the people of Munich prevented the church from being torn down. Several times I visited him and his onion turrets, whose outside covering consisted of shiny tinfoil from chocolate wrappings. I felt my predilection for gold and silver and metal-stamping confirmed. It was a holy feeling." (from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, pp. 832-833)