Friedensreich Hundertwasser

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On this day, December 15, 1928, was born Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928-2000), a prominent Austrian architect and painter. «Nature, art and creation - is part of a whole. Once we have divided them. If we destroy the creativity in ourselves, we destroy ourselves. Only nature can teach us to do ». Friedensreich Hundertwasser ... under the windows of his house is always crowded with tourists. His works are included in the excursion program first acquaintance with Vienna. Bright, whimsical, with intricate trim, they look like fairy castles. Their author Friedensreich Hundertwasser (Friedensreich Hundertwasser) (a name - a nickname coined by the artist in his youth, and which means "one hundred waters" and "kingdom of the world", and now - Frederick Shtovasser).

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was born Frederick Shtovasser December 15, 1928 in the family and Austrian Jews. Early lost his father, a soldier. He graduated from high school in Montessori, a short time studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and the École des Beaux-Arts. Assuming the school a waste of time, a young artist goes traveling ... France, Italy, New Zealand, Morocco and Tunisia shape his distinctive style. «If we allow the windows to dance
designing them in a different style, if we allow
appearance of the greatest number of irregularities,
as the facades and the interiors, homes begin to live ». The main element in the architecture of Hundertwasser believed the window. The straight lines are called "uniquely godless." Architectural concept of the artist is the ability of each occupant of his house to personalize their homes, at its discretion, to lean out the window with a brush and paint and draw until the hand reaches out ... Being indifferent to the protection of nature, special emphasis on the trees, creating a special niche for them, put them in the most unexpected places: on walls, roofs, columns. Hundertwasser is known and its shocking. One day, lecturing to students, instead of tedious moralizing, he knelt down and began to draw a spiral line around the entire room. The line lasted two days and two nights. Naked, amazed the audience recited the manifesto of his own composition "The right of a third skin" in Munich. In the fight for his House project was an important reason to strip in front of Vienna's mayor (mayor was a woman). The project was approved (its construction was completed in 1986).

   «Why people do not wear the crown?
    Because they are too cowardly for that
    to be kings »
                                                                                                         In addition to architectural projects, the artist designed the flag of New Zealand and the flag of peace to the Middle East, illustrated Bible and created the look for "Boeing 757" lines of German "Condor" and designed book covers, postage stamps for the Republic of Senegal and the Ivory Coast, the telephone cards, coins, tokens for the casino. Every detail has become a masterpiece in its rukah.Proizvedeniya artist adorn many of the world. In Tokyo, set installation "Monument to watch the XXI Century". In Portugal, on the eastern railway station in Lisbon, you can see its a big mural of tiles, "the sinking of Atlantis." But most of all works of the master course in Vienna. Some of the projects carried out posthumously Hundertwasser ...

Hundertwasser died on February 19, 2000 aboard the liner "Queen Elizabeth II in the Pacific Ocean, on the way from New Zealand, where he was buried under a tulip tree in the" Garden of the happy dead. "

  «It is difficult to explain how I achieved success!
    Just do not force or even thoughts,
    Do not mind, and not necessarily intuitive
    Most likely - the journey of dreams ».

   «Every drop of rain - this is the kiss of the sky»
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