Hudertwasser

So I a wanted to write something about one of my favorite artists, let me begin...

"People have to understand that they are the most dangerous vermin, that were and will be on this beautiful planet" by Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Friedrich Stowasser was born into a Jewish family in 1928 in Vienna Austria.
In 1949 he changed his name into Friedensreich Hundertwasser, which means “peaceful hundred waters”.
He suffered from a heart attack and died on the Queen Elizabeth 2 in 2000.
His artistic influence in painting and sculpture he even transformed into buildings.
His colorful paintings where inspired by nature and especially Egon Schiee and Gustav Klimt.
That is how the environmental activist created his own “Hundertwasser syle”.

He was very popular in Europe. He considered New Zealand as his official home (he was buried there too), where he lived on his boat “Regentag” (rain day).

Hundertwasser called the straight line the devils work, and shocked everybody with naked skin!
He said it was ungodly, because she does not occur in nature. That is why he demanded in his “moldy manifest” that the straight line should be banned.
From his manifest “Just carrying a straight line should be forbidden”.
Hundertwasser’s labyrinth, circle, spiral and raindrops style got its roots from the permanent tension and fear, that he had to live through during 1938-1945.
His work has been used for flags, stamps, coins, posters, schools, churches, public toilets in Germany and his adopted home of New Zealand.
His most famous flag is the Koru flag, which has been proposed as a secondary flag for New Zealand.
In 1999 he started his last project. Although he never finished this work completely, the building was put up a few years later in Magdeburg, a town in central Germany.

Artist, graphic designer, individualist, philosopher, environmental activist, architect – Friedensreich Hundertwasser’s life was his work, and his work his life.