Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation.

After 30 years Ferry Radax made a second portrait of the artist. 1961: Mainichi Prize in Tokyo
1980: Grand Austrian State Prize for Visual Arts
1981: Austrian Nature Protection Award
1982: Award winning Author of the year
1987: Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
1988: Gold Medal of the City of Vienna
1988: Gold Medal of Styria
1997: Grand Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria


Documentary films
Ferry Radax: Hundertwasser - Leben in Spiralen (Hundertwasser - life in spirals 1966). Hundertwasser developed artistic skills early on.

Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser (December 15 1928 – February 19 2000) was an Austrian artist (who later took on New Zealand citizenship).