Friedrich Stowasser (* Vienna, December 15th 1928; † New Zealand, February 19th 2000), better known under the name of Friedensreich Hundertwasser , was an artist painter, thinker and a Austrian Architecte or rather as he announced in his marked proclamation on January 24th, 1990, a doctor of architecture .

He invents his name of artist starting from Frieden which means “peace” and Reich “the “rich” kingdom” or reich , Friedensreich thus resulting in the “Kingdom of peace” or “rich in peace”. Sto being the Czech word for “hundred” ( hundert in German) and wasser resulting in “water”, Hundertwasser wants to thus say “hundred water” . In the first case, the end to end setting of the two terms gives: “the kingdom of peace (with) hundred water” . Hundertwasser often liked to quote the Japanese translation of its name ( hyaku-sui ).

Although it was born and grew in Austria, the fatherland of choice of Hundertwasser was however the New Zealand, and its principal house the ship Regentag ( day of rain ), an old reorganized tradind ship.

Its message is deeply, viscéralement ecologist and is expressed very early by noticed performances, ecological, artistic and architectural proclamations and in all its achievements (paintings, posters, stamps, houses, architectures, books…). Its proclamations carry titles as Your right to the window where he affirms that in a collective habitat, the inhabitant is Master of all that he can reach of his window in other words, the originator must take account of the desires of the user, For a company without waste , the madness of cleaning , the toilet-humus , etc He is concerned with " the ecological Impressed " of the citizen and the modern townsman. Consequently it creates buildings with trees with the windows ( the tree-tenant ), conceives and realizes downtown and in the countryside of the houses whose roofs are covered with greenery and plants, the grounds on unequal level and encourages the owners and the workmen with being creative and bringing a personal key to their work, for example thanks to the mosaic. He likes asymmetry and all that comes to break the order and the monotony of the pure geometry. Its pictorial work is characterized by the organic expansion of the forms and rests on the brightness of the colors. Colors which it frequently employs (often softer) structures about it like Gold, loan with the style baroque Rococo.

One can affirm that Hundertwasser is an unclassable artist marked by an immense love of nature and one of the large pioneers of a humanistic and ecological architecture which tries to reconcile artistic creativity and ecology.

Approaches architecture

He writes in 1959: " the architecture of today is criminally sterile ".

He denounces the classical architecture like disaster and concentrationnaire and declares enemy straight line that he refuses to employ in his creations. Its architectural achievements, at the same time organic and full with imagination, could be close to the work of Antoni Gaudí. And yet, although they have both a passion for nature and its forms, Hundertwasser is more radical in its designs of the life and happiness in osmosis with nature. Vision divided by many young people architects with the four corners of planet and pioneers of the movement of the éco-village S. It leaves many buildings of which its house-museum in Vienna, as many testimonys of its radical singularity.

Only architectural creations " full with santé" who find thanks to its eyes are:

  • buildings of Antonio Gaudi with Barcelona.

  • Certain buildings " Art nouveau ".
  • the turns " Watts Towers " of Simon Rodia, located in a residential district of Los Angeles.
  • the Ideal Palate of the Factor Horse, with Hauterives in the Drome (France).
  • forsaken districts of the cities, " taudis" , unhealthy districts.
  • houses of the peasants and primitive, " facts with the main" as formerly.
  • " schrebergärten" German and Austrians (houses of gardens).
  • American houses car-built in the illegality.
  • house-boats in Holland and with Sausalito.
  • buildings built by the architects Christian Hunziker, Lucien Kroll and some others.

Quotations

  • RIGHT TO THE WINDOW: " An owner must have the right to lean with his window and to change all that he wants of the external wall, also far that its hand can go so that one can see by far since the street: Here an human being saw. " (Seckau 1958)
  • " Some say that the houses are made walls. I say that they are made of fenêtres."
  • " The Art schools must be beautiful but the painters should not inevitably know peindre"

Its life

  • 1948 - 1949: studies of art to the academy of art of Vienna
  • 1949: travel in Italy
  • 1950: stay with Paris
  • 1951: travel to the Morocco and in Tunisia
  • 1961: one year stay to the Japan
  • As of 1967: Its posters are sold in great quantities.
  • As of 1981: professor with the academy of art of Vienna
  • 1991: opening of the Hundertwasser museum in Vienna.

Its architectural works

Austria
  • House Hundertwasserhaus with Vienna, 1983-1986
  • Mierka Getreidesilo Krems, 1982-1983
  • Rupertinum, Salzburg, 1980-1987
  • Church St - Barbara, Bärnbach, 1987-1988
  • Museum of the village of Roiten, 1987-1988
  • Factory of Rueff textile, Muntlix, 1988
  • Fernwärme (district heating?) Vienna, 1988-1997
  • Surface of highway, Bad Fischau, 1989-1990
  • House of art, Vienna, 1989-1991
  • House of Hundertwasser-Krawina, Vienna, 1990-1991
  • Brunnenanlage, Zwett, 1992-1994
  • House of the DDSG, Vienna, 1992-1994
  • SpiralflussTrinkbrunnen, Linz, 1993-1994
  • Hospital of Graz, 1993-1994
  • thermal Village of Blumau, 1993-1997
  • Factory in Zwischenwasser
Germany
  • Factory Rosenthal, Selb, 1980-1982
  • Halt-Nursery, Frankfurt, 1988-1995
  • " In the prés" , Bad Soden amndt Taunus, 1990-1993
  • " To live under the pluie" Plochingen, 1991-1994
  • Martin-Luther College in Lutherstadt Wittenberg, 1997-1999
  • House in Plochingen, 1999
  • Residence, Darmstadt, 1998-2000
  • Station of Uelzen, 1999-2001
  • green Citadel of Magdeburg, 2004-2005
  • House Ronald McDonald of assistance to the children, Essen
Japan
  • Countdown 21st Century Monument for TBS Tokyo, 1992
  • Kid' S Plaza Ōsaka, 1996-1997
  • Maishima Incineration Ösaka Seedling, 1997-2000
  • Maishima Sludge Center Ōsaka, 2000

E. - U.

  • Quixote Winery Napa Valley, 1992-1999

Israel

  • SpiralflussTrinkbrunnen II Tel Aviv, 1994-1996

Swiss

  • Markets of the market of Altenrhein, 1998-2001

New Zealand

  • public Toilet Kawakawa, 1999

Photographs of its works

Austria

Land of Styrie

Thermal village of Blumau

Town of Bärnbach
, which fascinated it: in 1983, he affirms that “for a long time, I was unhappy and dissatisfied because the tables which I painted could not support the comparison with the stamps”.

Its first original works for stamps are emitted in Austria in 1975 and with the Senegal in 1979. Since 1975, Hundertwasser worked a score of these stamps with the Austrian engraver Wolfgang Seidel.

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