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Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Austrian artist (1928-2000) · Austria · Artists · Died at 71 · also New Zealand

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The Austrian artist who declared war on the straight line. Hundertwasser built structures that looked like they'd grown rather than been drafted - wild, organic, studded with trees where windows should be. His Vienna apartment block became a pilgrimage site for people tired of right angles.

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A life in dates

2000Died19 February 20001990“A person in a rented apartment must be able to lean out of his window and scrape off the masonry within arm's reach.”In their wordsWindow Dictatorship and Window Rights (1990)

“There are no evils in Nature, there are only evils of Man.”In their wordsMay 1990Title of manifesto (May 1990)

1980“I am looking forward / to become humus myself / buried naked without coffin / under a beech tree planted by myself / on my land in ao tea roa. p6”In their wordsIsland of Lost Desires (1980)

1958“Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all.”In their wordsMould Manifesto against Rationalism in Architecture (1958)

“We must at last put a stop to having people move into their quarters like chickens and rabbits into their coops.”In their wordsMould Manifesto against Rationalism in Architecture (1958)

“Today we live in a chaos of straight lines, in a jungle of straight lines. If you do not believe this, take the trouble to count the straight lines which surround you.”In their wordsMould Manifesto against Rationalism in Architecture (1958)

1928Born15 December 1928

Also in Deutsch

Photos 8

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In their own words 8

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8 statements, newest first

  1. A person in a rented apartment must be able to lean out of his window and scrape off the masonry within arm's reach.

    1990, Window Dictatorship and Window Rights (1990), Own words

  2. There are no evils in Nature, there are only evils of Man.

    May 1990, Title of manifesto (May 1990), Own words

  3. The straight line is godless and immoral.

    1985, [This sentence also occurs in Hundertwasser's manifesto "On the Paradise Destroyed by the Straight Line" (1985).], Own words

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Awards

Decoration of Honour in Gold for Services to the State of Vienna
Grand Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria
Officer of Arts and Letters
Order of Honour (Styria)

About this person

Born Friedrich Stowasser in 1928, he shed the name for something longer and stranger: Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser. He worked as a visual artist and architect who treated standardisation like an enemy, folding nature directly into his building designs and speaking loudly for environmental causes. The Hundertwasserhaus in Vienna - imaginative, vital, utterly unlike its neighbors - became the Austrian capital's most recognisable proof of his vision. In the 1970s he left for New Zealand's Far North, where he spent most of his remaining years until his death in 2000.

Country
Austria
Category
Artists
Type
Artist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1928 to 2000 · aged 71

In common with Friedensreich

Doris KunstmannAlso in Hundertwasser's Rainy Day (1971)Peter SchamoniAlso in Hundertwasser's Rainy Day (1971)Anatole DaumanAlso in Hundertwasser's Rainy Day (1971)

Artists from Austria 3

Gustav Klimt72.4Egon Schiele61.0Oskar Kokoschka59.2

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