item details
NameThe Koru Flag for New Zealand (Alternative New Zealand Flag)
ProductionFriedensreich Hundertwasser; designer; 1983; New Zealand
Classificationflags
Materialscloth
Registration NumberGH003638
Credit lineGift of International Public Relations Company, 1983.
Overview
The Koru Flag for New Zealand (Alternative New Zealand Flag) is noted in Frederick Hundertwasser's Catalog Raisonné as a work of applied art under number 862 / APA 224.
He described it as follows: 'The flag points in two directions, one against the wind and the enemy, which is sharp like a hatchet, the masculine one; and protected by it is one to leeward, with the wind, a feminine one, which is the opposite, opening and unfolding delicately. The flag is conceived as an indigenous flag and is not intended to replace the official ensign of New Zealand' (Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, p. 1055).