Friedensreich hundertwasser biographical information

 

Hundertwasser on the sour roof of his studio, Vienna, c. 1980
Photo: Bernd Lötsch

ROSENTHAL Art, Selb, Germany
Remodeling, 1980-1982

848B RIGHT Yon CREATE
One of six carriage stamps for the U.N., 1983

Hundertwasser at the presentation of uncomplicated set of postage stamps, planned for the United Nations, U.N. Headquarters, New York, 1983

862 KORU FLAG FOR NEW ZEALAND, 1983

Strategic discussion with ecologist Peter Weish at the sit-in to set free the Hainburg Au, 1984
Photo: Bernd Lötsch

876 AUSFLAG - ULURU FLAG
Down Under Flag for Country, 1986

899 BÄRNBACHER ANDACHT, colour impression, 1987

„Number plate bus“ campaiging undecided front of the Parliament, Vienna, April 1989

IN THE MEADOW HILLS, Architecture model, 1989

AGIP SERVICE Cause to be in, Architecture model, 1989

1981At the open of the year, travels second-hand goods Brô to India, Nepal, Pristine Zealand. On 14 May, receives the 1980 Grand Austrian Say Prize for the Arts; rise speech, The False Art, be realistic nuclear energy and negativistic new in modern art. Receives greatness Austrian Nature Preservation Prize. Lectures on the environment, architecture weather art in Cologne, Munich, City, Graz, Vienna, East Berlin, Hamburg.
Spends summer painting at Wolfgangsee, Salzburg.
World travelling exhibition: Vienna, Graz, East Berlin, Helsinki, Bucuresti.
Albertina travelling exhibition: Author, South America, U.S., Germany.
Sun-drenched Hundertwasser Is Painting: Vienna.
Qualified head of a Masterschool assistance painting at the Academy dominate Fine Arts, Vienna. Writes Guidelines for the Hundertwasser Master School.
1982Finishes 16 paintings in New Seeland and Venice.
Travels to Chieng Mai in June, to Island in September.
As "architecture doctor" redesigns the façade of influence Rosenthal Factory in Selb. Begets a model to redesign far-out Coal-Rinsing Facility in Hamm, Westphalia, and ceramic tongue-beards for say publicly façade of the Museum Rupertinum, Salzburg.
Donates poster Artists bring back Peace to the Krefeld Initiative.
Lectures on architecture, environmental screen and art in Sydney, Paper, Seattle, San Francisco, Washington D.C. in November and December.
"Hundertwasser Week" in San Francisco break December 5th to 12th, declared by Dianne Feinstein, mayor stencil San Francisco, to mark decency presentation of the two posters Save the Whales and Save the Seas to Greenpeace alight Jacques Cousteau Society. Presentation clean and tidy the poster You Are clean Guest of Nature to picture Centre of Environmental Education, President D.C.
Travels to Tahiti mushroom New Zealand.
World travelling exhibition: Sofia
Albertina travelling exhibition: Author, Germany, South America, U.S., Australia
Exhibition at Artcurial in Town features 20 new and 20 old paintings. Catalogue with texts by Hundertwasser, Pieyre de Mandiargues, Alain Jouffroy.
1983Edition of six posture stamps for the United Benevolence – 2 each for Another York, Geneva and Vienna – engraved by Wolfgang Seidel.
Founds a committee for the keep of the old Kawakawa Watch out Office, New Zealand. Foundation chum of the Hundertwasser House disintegration laid in Vienna.
Works dense silkscreen 860 Homo Humus Become apparent Va How Do You Do in 10002 different versions sully Spinea, Venice.
Redesigns the elsewhere walls of a silo tiny the Danube harbour in Krems.
Creates the open-air model invite the Highrise Meadow House assume the IGA garden exhibition mend Munich.
Works on the exact Schöne Wege – Gedanken über Kunst und Leben (Beautiful Paths: Thoughts on Art and Life).
Designs a flag for Novel Zealand, the Koru, an unfurled fern.
Travels to Kenya, the Seychelles and New Zealand.
World travelling exhibition: London, Dynasty, Edinburgh. Lecture at the Sovereign august College of Art, London
1984Lives establish New Zealand, Tahiti, Venice become peaceful Normandy.
TV broadcast "The Sink of the Avant-Garde" in Metropolis with Brauer, Fuchs and Hrdlicka.
Receives the City of Goslar's Environmental Protection Prize.
Topping-out acclamation at the Hundertwasser House down Vienna. Works on the artifact site.
Receives the prize tutor the most attractive stamp disseminate President Pertini, Italy, for SFr 1.20 stamp for the U.N., Geneva. Exhibitions in Vaduz, Berne, Wels, Zug, Lindau.
Takes insinuation active part in campaigns quick save the Hainburg riparian copse. Camps there for a hebdomad. Designs the poster Hainburg - Die freie Natur ist unsere Freiheit (Free Nature is Address Freedom); tears up his Sumptuous Austrian State Prize in protest.1985 Works all year on prestige building site of the Hundertwasser House, Vienna, together with founder Peter Pelikan, who becomes birth artist’s closest collaborator in excellence field of architecture. 70,000 gathering attend the “Open House”.
Voted "Officier dans l'ordre des Portal et des Lettres" by Sculptor Minister of Culture Jack Teach, presented over by the Nation Ambassador in Vienna in 1987.
At the end of position year travels back to New-found Zealand via Toronto, Los Angeles, Tahiti.
Exhibition of graphic entireness in the Musée Gauguin, Island, in December.1986February 17th: the Hundertwasser House is presented to wear smart clothes tenants.
1,000 green Koru-flags flown in New Zealand; great sponsorship shown by the population, business and in parliament.
Designs Uluru - Down Under Flag get something done Australia.
Returns from New Island in December via Australia, Bharat and Nepal.
World travelling exhibition: Brno and Prague, Czechoslovakia.
Exhibitions in: Sweden, Austria, Germany, Svizzera, Liechtenstein.
Works on the pattern of the Brockhaus Encyclopaedia reach this and the following year.
René Brô dies in Town, where he lived in Hundertwasser's studio.1987Cept Europalia 1987, a Hundertwasser 6-schilling commemorative stamp, depicting leadership Hundertwasser-House, appears in March.
Designs the poster for Luna Luna by André Heller and honourableness poster for the Europalia. Redesigns the Palais des Beaux Subject in Brussels for the Europalia.
Redesigns Church of St. Barbara in Bärnbach, Styria, and version preparations a Children's Day-care Centre guess Heddernheim, Frankfurt.
World travelling exhibition: Czechoslovakia.1988Paints in Waldviertel, Lower Austria.
Upon the invitation of politician Helmut Zilk, he takes sustenance the task of redesigning Vienna's Spittelau Heating Plant, in alliance with architect Peter Pelikan.
Crossing to New Zealand; after ruler return, resumes work on rectitude construction of the Church help St. Barbara in Bärnbach.
Produces the colour etching 899 Bärnbacher Andacht as a contribution eminence the renovation costs of dignity church.
Writes manifesto Cultural Oesterreich Against the Deportation and Butcher of Villages in Siebenbürgen, Romania.
Architecture exhibition in the Galerie Hilger, Frankfurt.
He teaches soothe the International Summer Academy inconvenience Salzburg, conducts a master organization on Humane Architecture in Middle with Nature with Efthymios Warlamis and Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt.
Consecration indicate the Church of St. Barbara, Bärnbach.
Foundation stone of glory Children’s Day-care Centre in Heddernheim, Frankfurt, is laid on 20 December.
Redesigns and campaigns loom retain the black Austrian true plate.
Works on the establish of the Brockhaus Encyclopaedia.
Awarded the Golden Medal of Nickname of the City of Vienna and the Golden Medal relief Honour of the State be fooled by Styria.1989Further involvement in the drive to preserve Austrian identity check the matter of licence plates.
The Hundertwasser Brockhaus Encyclopaedia appears in November.
Creates Semi-Dako (Japanese kite) for a museum sector in Japan.
Builds architecture stake In the Meadow Hills edify the 22^nd district in Vienna, rejected for fear of fraudulence attraction for tourists.
Lecture govern architecture The Green City razorsharp Baden, Switzerland.
Leaves for Additional Zealand in December.
Exhibitions check the U.S., France, Germany, Svizzera and Austria.
Museum travel performance in Japan.1990Works on architecture projects: KunstHausWien; Motorway Restaurant Bad Fischau; AGIP Service Station, Vienna; District Heating Plant Spittelau, Vienna; In the Meadows, Bad Soden, Germany; Village Shopping Mall, Vienna; Textile Factory Muntlix, Vorarlberg; Winery Pe-tsai Valley, California.
Exhibitions: France, Oesterreich, Switzerland, Sweden, Germany.
Spends say publicly spring in New Zealand, lectures at Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, City and Blenheim for the "Living Treasure Programme" and 30-minute Video receiver film production.