Friedensreich Hundertwasser

The Austrian painter, known under the artist's name Friedensreich Hundertwasser was born on the 15th December, 1928 as Friedrich Stowasser in Vienna.

Hundertwasser visited the Montessori school in Vienna and after this in 1948 for short time the Viennese academy of arts.

In 1949 he adopted the artist's name Hundertwasser.

Friedensreich Hundertwasser was influenced by painters like Paul Klee and the Viennese Sezessionists. From the 1950s the spiral pictures of the painter became his most important works. He saw in it a symbol for the life and the death in her infinite connection.

In 1959 Hundertwasser organised in Hamburg the happening " endless line ". Since this time the engagement for nature conservation and environment protection stamped the painter. He undertook countless trips in the farest corners of the earth; above all, the South Pacific inspired him.

The most famous works of the painter are his architectural draughts resulted from the 70s for the coloured "Hundertwasser houses" which were built after ecological principles.

Friedensreich Hundertwasser died in 2000 aboard the Queen Elisabeth II near the Australian coast.