Tachismus hundertwasser biography

Hundertwasser's koru flag, proposed as a new New Zealand national flag based on a Maori motif. Hundertwasser's Down Under Flag, proposal for a new Australian national flag with Uluru positioned to show "Australia holding the earth from down under". Hundertwasser's original and unruly artistic vision expressed itself in pictorial art, environmentalism, philosophy, and design of facades, postage stamps, flags, and clothing among other areas.

The common themes in his work utilised bright colours, organic forms, a reconciliation of humans with nature, and a strong individualism, rejecting straight lines. He was also inspired by the art of the Vienna Secession, and by the Austrian painters Egon Schiele — and Gustav Klimt — He was fascinated by spirals, and called straight lines "godless and immoral" and "something cowardly drawn with a rule, without thought or feeling" He called his theory of art "transautomatism", focusing on the experience of the viewer rather than the artist.

A typical Hundertwasser facade: the Hundertwasserhaus in Plochingen. Although Hundertwasser first achieved notoriety for his boldly-coloured paintings, he is more widely known for his individual architectural designs. These designs use irregular forms, and incorporate natural features of the landscape. The Hundertwasserhaus apartment block in Vienna has 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.

He took no payment for the design of Hundertwasserhaus, declaring that it was worth the investment to "prevent something ugly from going up in its place". From the early s he increasingly focused on architecture, advocating more just human and environmental friendly buildings. This began with manifestos, essays and demonstrations. For example, he read out his "Mouldiness Manifesto against Rationalism in Architecture" in on the occasion of an art and architectural event held at the Seckau Monastery.

He rejected the straight line and the functional architecture. In the Mouldiness Manifesto he first claimed the "Window Right": "A person in a rented apartment must be able to lean out of his window and scrape off the masonry within arm's reach. And he must be allowed to take a long brush and paint everything outside within arm's reach. So that it will be visible from afar to everyone in the street that someone lives there who is different from the imprisoned, enslaved, standardised man who lives next door.

For Hundertwasser, human misery was a result of the rational, sterile, monotonous architecture, built following the tradition of the Austrian architect Adolf Loos, author of the modernist manifesto Ornament and crime He called for a boycott of this type of architecture, and demanded instead creative freedom of building, and the right to create individual structures.

In he published the manifesto Your window right — your tree duty. Planting trees in an urban environment was to become obligatory: "If man walks in nature's midst, then he is nature's guest and must learn to behave as a well-brought-up guest. He campaigned for the preservation of the natural habitat and demanded a life in accordance with the laws of nature.

He wrote numerous manifestos, lectured and designed posters in favor of nature protection, including against nuclear power, to save the oceans and the whales and to protect the rain forest. He was also an advocate of composting toilets and the principle of constructed wetland. First deliberate crayon drawings after nature. During this year, about 69 Jewish relations on his mother's side are deported and killed.

School-leaving certificate. Robin Christian Andersen. Lastingly influenced by a Walter Kampmann exhibition in the Albertina and by Schiele exhibitions. Develops his own style and adopts the name Hundertwasser. Leaves the Ecole des Beaux Arts on his first day. Paints his first spiral. Second stay in Paris. Second Art Club exhibition, Vienna.

First exhibition in Paris at Studio Paul Facchetti. Develops the theory of "transautomatism" and begins to number his works. Marries in Gibraltar divorced Reads his Mould Manifesto against Rationalism in Architecture on the occasion of a congress at Seckau monastery. Founds the "Pintorarium", a universal academy of all creative fields, together with Ernst Fuchs and Arnulf Rainer.

Resigns lectureship following scandal. Visits Japan. Very successful exhibiton in Tokyo. Paints in Hokkaido and returns to Vienna via Siberia. Marries Yuko Ikewada divorced Speaks on ecology, against nuclear power and for a more human architecture in harmony with nature in the U. Spends the summer painting on the island of Porquerolles.

On 14 May, receives the Grand Austrian State Prize for the Arts; reception speech, The False Art, against nuclear energy and negativistic avant-garde in modern art. Receives the Austrian Nature Preservation Prize. Spends summer painting at Wolfgangsee, Salzburg. Albertina travelling exhibition: France, South America, U. Exhibition Hundertwasser Is Painting: Vienna.

Writes Guidelines for the Hundertwasser Master School. Finishes 16 paintings in New Zealand and Venice. Donates poster Artists for Peace to the Krefeld Initiative. Travels to Tahiti and New Zealand. Foundation stone of the Hundertwasser House is laid in Vienna. Redesigns the outside walls of a silo at the Danube harbour in Krems. Designs a flag for New Zealand, the Koru, an unfurling fern.

Travels to Kenya, the Seychelles and New Zealand. World travelling exhibition: London, York, Edinburgh. Lecture at the Royal College of Art, London. Topping-out ceremony at the Hundertwasser House in Vienna. Works on the construction site. Takes an active part in campaigns to save the Hainburg riparian forest. Camps there for a week.

February 17th: the Hundertwasser House is presented to its tenants. World travelling exhibition: Czechoslovakia. Works on the design of the Brockhaus Encyclopaedia in this and the following year. Cept Europalia , a Hundertwasser 6-schilling commemorative stamp, depicting the Hundertwasser-House, appears in March. Redesigns Church of St. Paints in Waldviertel, Lower Austria.

Upon the invitation of mayor Helmut Zilk, he takes on the task of redesigning Vienna's Spittelau Heating Plant, in collaboration with architect Peter Pelikan. Travels to New Zealand; after his return, resumes work on the construction of the Church of St. Architecture exhibition in the Galerie Hilger, Frankfurt. Consecration of the Church of St.

Redesigns and campaigns to retain the black Austrian licence plate. Works on the design of the Brockhaus Encyclopaedia.

Tachismus hundertwasser biography

Further involvement in the campaign to preserve Austrian identity in the matter of licence plates. The Hundertwasser Brockhaus Encyclopaedia appears in November. Creates Semi-Dako Japanese kite for a museum show in Japan. Builds architecture model In the Meadow Hills for the 22nd district in Vienna, rejected for fear of its attraction for tourists.

Leaves for New Zealand in December. Exhibitions in the U. Museum travel exhibition in Japan. Very successful retrospective at the Venice Biennale. Works on the Olympia poster for Munich in Lengmoos. Friendship with Joram Harel. Hundertwasser is the first European painter to have his works cut by Japanese masters. Takes part in the Milan Triennial, where c.

Touring exhibition in New Zealand.