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Hundertwasser is one of the most important artists & architects to emerge from the latter half of the 20th-century and is certainly by far the most important Austrian one. Friedrich Hundertwasser was born in Vienna on December 15th, 1928 as Friedrich Stowasser. Hundertwasser has produced his first juvenile drawings in the year 1934. He spent three months at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, under Prof. Robin Christian Andersen. At around this time he became lastingly influenced by a Walter Kampmann exhibition. 1949 he started journeys to to North Italy, Tuscany, Rome, Napoli & Sicily. Developed his own style and adopted the name Hundertwasser. In Florence he met René Brô and followed him to Paris

The following year Hundertwasser stayed with Brô and the Dumage family in Paris and  painted  two murals together with Brô in Saint Mandé.

In 1952, Hundertwasser had his first exhibition at the Art Club of Vienna.

In 1959 he received the Sanbra Prize at the 5th Sao Paulo Biennial. 1959  he founded the Pintorarium, a universal academy of all creative fields, together with Ernst Fuchs and Arnulf Rainer. As guest lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg, he drew the Endless Line with Bazon Brock and Herbert Schuldt. 1960 he visited Japan and received the Mainichi Prize at the 6th International Art Exhibition, Tokyo. 1967 Hundertwasser traveled to Uganda and the Sudan. A touring exhibition of his work was seen in galleries in Paris, London, Geneva & Berlin.

1976 he started his World touring exhibition: Tel Aviv, Warsaw, Reykjavik, Copenhagen & Dakar. Albertina graphic tour in the USA: Hanover, Brooklyn, Maryland.

1982, Hundertwasser redesigned the facade of the Rosenthal Factory of Selb. Made ceramic tongue-beards for the facade of the Museum Rupertinum, Salzburg.

On 17 February 1986 the Hundertwasser House was turned over to the tenants; 70,000 visitors visited the Open House. Friedrich Hundertwasser worked on the design of the Brockhaus encyclopaedia, through 1986 & into the following year.

1991 was completed the KunstHaus Wien which opened on April, 9. Conceptualised and developed architectural projects thus: the Thermal Village Blumau, Styria, for Rogner Austria, which is based on Hundertwasser's Rolling Hills.

Hundertwasser lived and worked in New Zealand in 1999. His architectural projects were: Sludge Center, Osaka; The Green Citadel of Magdeburg and Uelzen Railroad Station, Germany. Reconstruction work for the new Kawakawa Public Toilet, New Zealand. and more...