Hippo Feeling

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Description

Hippo Feeling, Pygmy Hippopotamus, oil on canvas

100 x 50 cm

Creation year

1970

First exhibited at the Helmhaus Zurich in the 1970 WWF Exhibition

 

With this picture, Fritz has succeeded in perfectly expressing the almost contagious calm and contentment of the little hippo. The picture was very popular with the audience, and it also inspired the Minstrels, a popular Swiss folk band at the time, to their song “That Hippo Feeling”.

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