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The Hundertwasser House Vienna (German
Hundertwasserhaus Wien) is an apartment house in Vienna, Austria,
designed by Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser. This
landmark of Vienna is located in the 3. district, Kegelgasse 34-38 /
Löwengasse 41-43.
The house was built between 1983 and 1986 by architects Univ.-Prof.
Joseph Krawina and Peter Pelikan. It features undulating floors ("an
uneven floor is a melody to the feet"), a roof covered with earth
and grass, and large trees growing from inside the rooms, with limbs
extending from windows. Hundertwasser took no payment for the design
of the house, declaring that it was worth it, to prevent something
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Image: Hundertwasser House
© Verlag Christian Brandstätter - Manfred Horvath |
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| Within the house there are 52 apartments, four
offices, 16 private terraces and three communal terraces, and a
total of 250 trees and bushes. The Hundertwasser House is one of
Austria's most visited buildings[citation needed] and has become
part of Austria's cultural heritage. |
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| Friedensreich
Hundertwasser |
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Hundertwasser, Friedensreich (real
name: Friedrich Stowasser), b. Vienna, Dec. 15, 1928, d. Feb. 19,
2000 (on board the Queen Elizabeth II on a trip from New Zealand to
Europe, buried in New Zealand). Painter, lived in Vienna, New
Zealand, Venice and Normandy. In 1948 he studied for 4 months at the
Vienna Academy of Fine Arts under R. C. Andersen; afterwards
undertook several journeys, since 1951 member of the Vienna |
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| Art Club; in 1953 made the helix the basic form of
his paintings; in 1954 developed the artistic style
"Transautomatismus", and in 1959 founded the "Pintorarium" together
with E. Fuchs and A. Rainer. International break-through at the
Biennale in Venice in 1962. In his sometimes spectacular manner
("nudist speeches" etc.) H. has advocated peace, ecology and a form
of architecture which takes into account human needs and natural
phenomena; has stood up against the destruction of villages, whaling
and Austria's entry into the European Union. |
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Image: Friedensreich
Hundertwasser, district heating plant Spittelau in
Vienna's 9th district;
© E.
Gaube - 2007 |
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| Hundertwasser is not only a painter, but has also
worked as a designer of buildings (H.-Haus, 3rd district of Vienna,
1986; parish church in Bärnbach, Styria, 1988; KunstHaus Wien, 3rd
district of Vienna 1991; District Heating Plant Spittelau, 9th
district of Vienna, 1988-1992; Blumau Thermal Village, Styria,
1993-1997; etc.), books (Brockhaus-Enzyklopädie, 1989; Bible, 1995),
stamps, posters etc. From 1981-1997 was in charge of a master class
for painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna; Grand Austrian
State Prize in 1980. |
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A-1020 Vienna
Tel: +43/01/9580808
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