When was friedensreich hundertwasser born

Even in adolescence Stowasser brought home reports from school attesting to his 'exceptional feeling for colour and form'. After taking the examinations qualifying for university entrance, Hundertwasser spent three months at the Viennese Art Academy studying under Professor Robin Christian Andersen.

Hundertwasser was, however, more indebted to the work of Egon Schiele and Walter Kampmann, which he saw at their exhibitions, than to the brief period of academic instruction. Instead he found the numerous and adventurous trips he took to Morocco, Tunisia, Nepal, Tokyo and Siberia inspirational for the path he intended to follow.

Taking Viennese Jugendstil as his point of departure, Hundertwasser developed an abstract, decorative, two-dimensional and vibrantly colourful, utterly distinctive style distinguished by ornamental spiral and labyrinth forms, circles, meanders and biomorphic shapes. During the s Hundertwasser was extremely successful, with a retrospective in the Austrian pavilion at the Venice Biennale and a retrospective mounted by the Kestner Gesellschaft in Hannover.

Active in the ecological movement, Hundertwasser was committed to making life liveable in a humane environment that was close to nature. He furthered his aims by issuing manifestos and making provocative public appearances, for instance giving a speech in the nude in Vienna. Hundertwasser also spoke up for general issues and concerns such as the preservation of the Hainburg marshlands near Vienna , and campaigned against nuclear power plants.

He always advocated strong, autonomous, authentic, headstrong, and green views. From , he held a master class at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. As requested he was buried in harmony with nature on his land in New Zealand, in the Garden of the Happy Deads, under a tulip tree. Hundertwasser can be considered a "colourist" painter, as colour is an essential - if not overriding - element of all his work.

He used highly saturated colours regardless of subject matter. He often painted while "on the road", using a pocket watercolour box or powdered pigments. He also frequently employed egg tempera, adding metallic dust, cloth or paper fragments, soil, ground glass, or pottery, and finishing the piece with a thin glaze of oil. The wide range of objects Hundertwasser designed, including wall calendars, editions of the bible and the Brockhaus encyclopaedia, wrist watches, china, and writing paper, made him an omnipresent representative of applied arts in the truest sense.

Hundertwasser German for "hundred waters" is a pseudonym; he was born Friedrich Stowasser. Hundertwasser stood out as an opponent of "a straight line" and any standardization, expressing this concept in the field of building design.

His best known work is the Hundertwasserhaus in Vienna, Austria which has become a notable place of interest in the Austrian capital, characterized by imaginative vitality and uniqueness. They avoided persecution by posing as Christians, a credible ruse as Hundertwasser's father had been a Catholic. Hundertwasser was baptized as a Catholic in To remain inconspicuous Hundertwasser also joined the Hitler Youth. Hundertwasser developed artistic skills early on.

After the war, he spent three months at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. At this time he began to sign his art as Hundertwasser instead of Stowasser. He left to travel using a small set of paints he carried at all times to sketch anything that caught his eye.

Hundertwasser's first commercial painting success was in —53 with an exhibition in Vienna. His adopted surname is based on the translation of "sto" the Slavic word for " one hundred" into German. The name Friedensreich has a double meaning as "Peace-realm" or "Peace-rich" in the sense of "peaceful".

One of the central motifs of his colorful picture world is the spiral. If today Hundertwasser is considered one of the most popular European artists of our time, his graphic work has made a great contribution.

His goal in the art of graphics was to create variations within one edition, with the result that each sheet of an edition is unique, different in color and design from all others.