Friedensreich HUNDERTWASSER

(1928 – 2000)

Austrian visual artist, architect and environmental protectionist | 1928 born in Vienna / Austria | 1948/49 studies for three months at “Academy of Fine Arts Vienna” | 1949-51 travels to Italy, Paris, Marocco, Tunesia and Sizilia | 1952-56 first exhibitions of paintings in Vienna, Paris and Milan | 1950s designs stamps for severel countries and the UN | 1957 + 1964 acquires a farm in Normandy and a mill in Austria | 1970 acquires several properties in New Zealand | 2000 died on ocean liner “Queen Elizabeth 2”