Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Timeline

• He was born in Vienna on December 15th 1928.

• In 1929 his father died.

• When he was 6 he began drawing.

• In 1943 he deliberately drew with crayons.

Timeline cont.

• In 1948 he achieved his school-leaving certificate and spent three months at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

• In 1952, he had his first exhibition at the Art Club of Vienna.

• In 1953 he painted his first spiral.

• He got married in 1958. Then in 1960 he received a divorce.

• In 1966 Ferry Radax filmed the first documentary on him in La Picaudière.

• He worked on the Olympia poster for Munich in Lengmoos in 1971.

Timeline cont.

• In 1972 his mother died.• In 1980 Hundertwasser

Day in Washington, D.C. was seen on the 18th November, proclaimed by Mayor Marion Barry. Jr.

• In 1983 received the most beautiful postage stamp from Italy’s President.

• In 1990 he worked on architectural realisations.

• In 1992 he designed four telephone cards for the Austrian Postal Service.

• In 1993 he designed a postage stamp commemorating the European Council Summit in Vienna

• In 1999 he lived and worked in New Zealand.

• In 2000 he died.

Examples of his architecture

• Church of St. Barbara, Barnbach

• District heating plant Spittelau, Vienna

• Hunderwasser-house Vienna

• Rogner-bad Blumau, Hotel & Spa

Paintings

Philosophy

• There are no evils in nature. There are only evils of man.

• Window Dictatorship and Window Rights.

• Mould Manifesto Against Rationalism in Architecture.

Death

• He died Saturday February 19, 2000 from a heart attack.

• He was in the pacific, on board The Queen Elizabeth II.

• According to his wish he is being buried in harmony with nature on his land in New Zealand, in the Garden of the Happy Deads, under a tulip tree.

Sources

• http://www.grinch.ca/HTML/Hundertwasser/Hundertwasser.htm

• http://www.amodernartgallery.com/modern_art_html/gallery_hundertwasser_java_amag.html

• http://www.leninimports.com/hundertwasser_bio.html

• http://www.kunsthauswien.com/english/hundertwasser.htm

• Jenna 5th period