In 1948 Friendensreich Hundertwasser studied at the Vienna
Academy of Fine Arts for 4 months. A year later he changed
his name to Friedensreich Hundertwasser, which means "full-of-peace
hundred-water". From 1949 to 1952 he undertook many journeys
to North Africa and Paris, where he started to deal with the
paintings of Gustav Klimt, Paul Klee and others.
In 1962 Hundertwasser had his international break through
at the Biennale in Venice. Around this time he also made ideological
statements, with his famous nudist speeches and his call for
peace, ecology and new forms of architecture. Not unlike the
artists of the Session Movement, he saw art as a decoration.
Hundertwasser got even more famous as an architect. From 1986
to 1991 he planned and realised different buildings, like
the Hundertwasser Haus and the front of the waste combustion
Spittelau.
Famous work: "Hundertwasserhaus"
opened 1986; "30 Day Fax Picture" 1994
