Friedensreich Hundertwasser

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Friedensreich Hundertwasser
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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.

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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.

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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 Italys 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.

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Examples of his architecture

• Church of St. Barbara, Barnbach
• District heating plant Spittelau, Vienna
• Hunderwasser-house Vienna
• Rogner-bad Blumau, Hotel Spa

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Paintings
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Philosophy

• There are no evils in nature. There are
  only evils of man.
• Window Dictatorship and Window Rights.
• Mould Manifesto Against Rationalism in
  Architecture.

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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.

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Sources

• http//www.grinch.ca/HTML/Hundertwasser/Hundertwas
  ser.htm
• http//www.amodernartgallery.com/modern_art_html/g
  allery_hundertwasser_java_amag.html
• http//www.leninimports.com/hundertwasser_bio.html
  
• http//www.kunsthauswien.com/english/hundertwasser
  .htm
• Jenna 5th period