Friedrich Stowasser (December 15, 1928 in Vienna; † February 19, 2000 aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2), better known as Friedensreich Hundertwasser, also own creation "Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser = peace empire rainy day dark colored Hundertwasser" was an Austrian artist and multi-talented, and a distant relative of the Altphilologen Joseph Maria Stowasser. 

Hundertwasser was the only child of the unemployed Reserveleutnants Ernst Stowasser and his wife Else Stowasser. The father died only thirteen days after his birth in an appendicitis, as seen by his mother alone attracted large. With seven years, he came to the Montessori school in Vienna. The local art educators certified him an "extraordinary mold and color sense." Although his mother was Jewish, was Hundertwasser 1937 Catholic baptized. After the Anschluss of Austria ", he came 1938 to the Hitler Youth. Because private school less auffielen, let Else Stowasser her son to a state school Vienna. 1943 was sixty-nine water hundreds of relatives of the Nazis murdered. Hundertwasser and his mother were spared.

Hundertwasser 1998 in New Zealand

After his graduation in 1948, he attended in the winter semester 1948/49 for three months, the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. There, he began his work with the artist name "Hundertwasser" sign. Shortly after discontinuation of the study traveled hundreds of water in April 1949 for the first time in Italy. He learns Others The French artist Rene Brô know. Together they travel 1950 to Paris. This was followed by further trips to Morocco (first half of 1951), after Tunisia, Sicily and the Bürgeralm in Aflenz in Styria.

Despite his life as a loner traveled Hundertwasser much of his life and likes. On the trips, he learned English, French and Italian. Moreover, he spoke a little Japanese, Russian, Czech and Arabic. He always had a Miniaturmalkasten with them to anywhere and immediately paint them. His first exhibitions were Hundertwasser 1952 and 1953 in his hometown of Vienna, 1955 in Milan, as well as 1954 and 1956 in Paris.

In the year 1957 acquired hundreds of water a farm on the edge of Normandy. 1958 celebrated his first wedding. The marriage was again two years later divorced. Hundertwasser traveled 1960 after Japan, where he was 1961 at the 6th International Art Exhibition in Tokyo, the Mainichi Prize was awarded. 1962, he married a second time, too, the marriage of Japan's Yuku Ikewada crumbled after a few years, and in 1966 divorced. During the time in Japan was also the name of "peace kingdom." He his first name translated in the Japanese characters for the words "peace" and "rich" and called himself from now on peace Reich.

According to the farmhouse in Normandy bought Hundertwasser 1964 the discarded "cock-saw" in the sparsely populated Lower Waldviertel. There, far from the hustle and in the midst of the environment, he directed a new dwelling. His desire and commitment for a peaceful, humane and natural environment pushed the artist 1967 in Munich and 1968 in Vienna, by two public speeches, which he kept naked.

From 1970 to 1972 worked Hundertwasser with director Peter Schamoni in the film "Hundertwasser rainy day". This was after the documentary "Hundertwasser-life spirals" of 1966, the second film about the life of the artist. It is about the old salt freighters, with the Hundertwasser 1968 from Sicily to Venice sailed.

Hundertwasser designed the official poster for the XX. Summer Olympics 1972 in Munich. 1975 he started Post stamp design. 1982 he designed the facade of Rosenthal factory in Selb. A year later, the foundation stone of the Hundertwasser House in Vienna, on 17 In February 1985 the tenant was over. Over the years it has worked on numerous Hundertwasser architecture projects. These include Germany, Austria and Switzerland, but also California, Japan and New Zealand.

1995 saw the release of the strictly limited "Hundertwasser Bible." The 1688-page Bible is with thirty extra for this edition created collages and fifty artworks illustrated. The bindings are handmade and each unique.

On 19 In February 2000 died Friedensreich Hundertwasser on the return trip from a long stay in New Zealand aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2 "of heart failure.

His last wish, he was on 3 March on his land in New Zealand history. Under a magnolia tree, naked and without a coffin, wrapped in a flag designed by him with the Koru-Symbol.

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