Born in Vienna, Austria, on December 15, 1928. His father died when he was a year old. In 1936 he joined the Montessori School in Vienna and in 1943 made his first drawings.
In 1948 he joined the Academy of Fine Arts and began to develop his painting style. In 1949 adopted the name Hundertwasser and travels to Italy where he met the French painter René Bro with whom he Country murals of men, birds and ships (1950) and The Miraculous Catch (1950) in Saint-Mandé, near Paris.
In 1952 he made his first solo exhibition in the Vienna Art Club and in 1953 he exhibited for the first time in the Facchetti Gallery in Paris. That same year he painted his first spiral. Transautomatismo develops his theory in 1954, influenced by the ideas of Marcel Duchamp, in which critical illiteracy and raise public perception that this is who builds the work of art. In 1955 out in the Naviglio Gallery in Milan.
In 1957 he published The Grammar of view, which notes that creativity is a universal right that we all possess. In Seckau of Styria, Austria, on July 4, 1958 reads her rusting Manifesto against rationalism in architecture. Founded in September 1959 in Vienna, together with Ernst Fuchs and Arnulf Rainer, The Pintorarium "A homeland for all creative people, without discrimination of any type of art, general guidelines or philosophy" and this year a position as professor in the School of Fine Arts Lerchenfeld in Hamburg. For his criticism was forced to resign because, for two days, along with their students, artist and writer Brock Bazon Herbert Schuldt, drawn on walls and windows line Hamburg. In 1959 he received the Award of the Fifth Sanbra Sao Paulo Biennial in 1961, visiting Japan, he was awarded the Mainichi Prize at the Sixth International Art Exhibition in Tokyo. Yuuko Ikewada married in Vienna (1962) and divorced in 1966.
1968. Vienna. In a performative act naked protest against the rectilinear architecture, criticizing the proposed architecture of Adolf Loos (Loos should be replaced by a sterile ornamentation rich vegetation, but did not. It advocated the straight line, uniformity, flatness) .
1972. Meet Joram Harel who eventually became director of the Kunsthaus Wien, now a museum dedicated to spreading the Contemporary Arts in Vienna. Death of his mother, Elsa Stowasser and published the manifesto Your window right, your duty to the tree aimed at creative people, "one resident must have the right to look out the window and shape as desired, until where his arm reach to the exterior. " The tree is a duty to appeal to the conscience of man in his relationship with nature, "free nature should grow where the snow or rain. Where everything is white in winter, everything should be green in summer. What is parallel to the sky belongs to nature, we must plant street trees and on rooftops, in the city have to re-breathe the air of the forest. "
In 1973, during the Milan Triennale, Hundertwasser-tenant floor twelve trees on the facade of a house in the Via Manzoni (Action Tree tenant). The idea of \u200b\u200btree-tenant moves his work entitled Tree-tenants do Not sleep, Tree-tenants wide awake, 1973 (The tree-tenant does not sleep, Trees-tenant awake, 1973). In 1974, active in the campaign to protect the environment in New Zealand: painted the poster entitled Conservation Week. Two new exhibits: Graphische Sammlung Albertina in Vienna ("Stowasser Hundertwasser 1943-1974") and the Facchetti Gallery in Paris.
With Humus Toilets (Munich, 1975) and his Manifesto of the Holy Shit (1979) "shit land becomes perched on the roof turns into grass, woods and garden," the artist enriches his philosophy for Ecology, along with the rooftops with vegetation. His philosophy committed to the environment is summarized in the formula: nature + beauty = happiness.
(1975) begins in the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris international exhibition "Austria presents Hundertwasser to the five continents." The exhibition was presented at the Musée de l'Etat, Luxembourg, in the Cantina Musée de Marseille, France, in the building of the ASU in the Cairo Museum in Tel Aviv in Naradome Museum of Warsaw in National Gallery of Iceland in Reykjavik, in the State Art Museum in Copenhagen, at the Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo Saibu, in the Yokohama Museum, in Brazil at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro and the Museo de Arte de Sao Paolo, in Venezuela at the Museum and Fine Arts in Mexico (1978) at the Museum of Modern Art National Institute of Fine Arts.
In Washington (1980) performed an ecological time to planting trees in the Judiciary Square. Mayor Marion Barry says the November 18 "Hundertwasser Day" and delivered to Ralhp Nader, a prominent environmentalist, the poster Planting trees and struggle against the nuclear threat. On February 15, 1981 awarded the Grand Prize and the Austrian National delivers his speech on The Art Thou hypocrite, which qualifies the modern art "degenerate", sparking a controversy with this. This year joins the campaign Neue Kronen Zeitung newspaper come in favor of having more green spaces in Vienna.
posters done in 1981 Save the Whales and Save the seas to Greenpeace and Jacques Cousteau Foundation and in 1982 joined the pacifist cause, placing the art in the service of world peace. In New Zealand the poster Artists for Peace. 1983 Rakel company Surlien Prime Minister of Norway, plant a tree in the Akershus, in downtown Oslo and the October 13, 1983 presented his work on Norwegian television and poster Green Power Save the rain: Each raindrop is a kiss of heaven. New poster for world peace. 1989
designed the covers of the Brockhaus encyclopedia. In 1995 working on the project Illustrated Bible to be published by Augsburg Pattloch.
2000 died Feb. 19 Friedrich Stowasser, in an unspecified location in the Pacific Ocean.
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