M>y Watch Gallery

Hundertwasser’s child like drawing came about a few years later. He style changed in 1949 when he realized the constraints he had when he was learning drawing in the Academy and from what he saw in the painting of Paul Klee; ‘Soul trees’ in the Walter Kampmann Exhibition. Paul Klee’s drawings have overwhelmed him totally and he realized that Klee is the most realistic and genuine drawings of all. He was furthered inspired by John Ruskin who once said the things that a child sees is the most un-spoilt, inexhaustible picture. Their visuals are always very vivid and fresh. This is so because a child doesn’t read as much as an adult. Thus a child doesn’t process what they see a lot in his brain before they draw it out. Therefore their drawings are the realistic ones. So, since then, Hundertwasser started to draw child-like paintings, thereby changing his style.