When was hundertwasser born

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. Between and Hundertwasser rehauled the old sailing vessel 'San Giuseppe T' at docks in the Venice lagoon, rechristened it 'Regentag' ['Rainy Day'], and going to see in it several times.

So versatile and prolific was Hundertwasser that he also designed coins and stamps for Austria, Senegal and the UN from the s. Moreover, Hunderwasser was the first European artist to have work carved by Japanese master carvers. In Hundertwasser was appointed head of the master classes for painting at the Viennese Art Academy. The famous Hundertwasser House in Vienna, begun in , attests to Hunderwasser's skill as an architect. Hundertwasser died on a cruise ship off New Zealand in Sell your Friedensreich Hundertwasser fine art with us.

Outside of our office hours please drop us an email and we'll be happy to answer your questions. His artworks reflect his philosophy, which is based on a harmonious interaction between nature and man. Hundertwasser was born in Vienna on 15 December as Friedrich Stowasser. In , aged 23, he was admitted to the Art Club of Vienna, and four years later he began his lifelong foreign travel, at first to locations where his work was exhibited, later to destinations in Africa, Tahiti, Asia, and the Pacific.

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. Travels to Northern California to prepare a catalogue for his museum exhibition at the University of California, Berkeley, organised by Herschel Chipp.

Creates graphic work Good Morning City — Bleeding Town in colour variations followed by a court case in Munich lasting 5 years. Lives and works on board the Regentag in the Venice lagoon. Works on the Olympia poster for Munich in Lengmoos.

Sails down the Dalmatian coast in the Regentag with Peter Schamoni and Manfred Bockelmann; balloon flight with the two of them from Bavaria to Austria. Friendship with Joram Harel. Publishes manifesto Your window right — your tree duty. The Rainy Day film is shown in Cannes. Sails round Italy to Elba in the Regentag. Death of his mother. First portfolio with Japanese woodcuts: Nana Hyaku Mizu. Hundertwasser is the first European painter to have his works cut by Japanese masters.

Conceived as a travelling exhibition, by the graphics will have been shown at over 80 museums and galleries in 15 countries. Presents his proposals for a pedestrian area in Seilergasse, Vienna, which are rejected. Sails to Tunisia, Cyprus and Israel in the Regentag. Exhibition at Facchetti's, Paris. Second Japanese woodcut portfolio: Midori No Namida.

Retrospective exhibition in Haus der Kunst, Munich. Publishes Humus Toilet manifesto in Munich. In continued: Luxembourg, Marseille, Cairo. Albertina travelling exhibition in the U. Following two accidents, spends two months in Kawakawa hospital in New Zealand. Albertina travelling exhibition: U. Albertina travelling exhibition: Canada, Germany, Morocco. Creates five coin objects in Vienna: Like entrance money into paradise. Experiments with humus toilets without chimney vent and indoor and outdoor water purification with plants.

Spends the summer painting in Algajola on Corsica. Hundertwasser Day in Washington, D. The first 12 of trees are planted in Judiciary Square, Washington, D.

Speaks on ecology, against nuclear power and for a more human architecture in harmony with nature in the U. Spends the summer painting on the island of Porquerolles. On 14 May, receives the Grand Austrian State Prize for the Arts; reception speech, The False Art, against nuclear energy and negativistic avant-garde in modern art.

Receives the Austrian Nature Preservation Prize. Spends summer painting at Wolfgangsee, Salzburg. Albertina travelling exhibition: France, South America, U. Exhibition Hundertwasser Is Painting: Vienna. Writes Guidelines for the Hundertwasser Master School. Finishes 16 paintings in New Zealand and Venice. Donates poster Artists for Peace to the Krefeld Initiative. Travels to Tahiti and New Zealand. Foundation stone of the Hundertwasser House is laid in Vienna.

Redesigns the outside walls of a silo at the Danube harbour in Krems. Designs a flag for New Zealand, the Koru, an unfurling fern. Travels to Kenya, the Seychelles and New Zealand.

World travelling exhibition: London, York, Edinburgh. Lecture at the Royal College of Art, London. Topping-out ceremony at the Hundertwasser House in Vienna. Works on the construction site. Takes an active part in campaigns to save the Hainburg riparian forest.

Camps there for a week. February 17th: the Hundertwasser House is presented to its tenants. World travelling exhibition: Czechoslovakia.

Works on the design of the Brockhaus Encyclopaedia in this and the following year. Cept Europalia , a Hundertwasser 6-schilling commemorative stamp, depicting the Hundertwasser-House, appears in March. Redesigns Church of St. Paints in Waldviertel, Lower Austria. Upon the invitation of mayor Helmut Zilk, he takes on the task of redesigning Vienna's Spittelau Heating Plant, in collaboration with architect Peter Pelikan.

Travels to New Zealand; after his return, resumes work on the construction of the Church of St. Architecture exhibition in the Galerie Hilger, Frankfurt.