Friedrich Stowasser (15 December 1928 – 19 February 2000), better known by his pseudonym Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser (), was an Austrian visual artist and architect who also worked in the field of environmental protection. He emigrated to the
Far North of New Zealand in the 1970s, where he lived and worked for most of the rest of his life.
Hundertwasser stood out as an opponent of "a straight line" and any standardisation, expressing this concept in the field of building design. His best known work is the
Hundertwasserhaus
The Hundertwasserhaus ("Hundertwasser house") is an Apartment building, apartment house in Vienna, Austria, completed in 1985, after the idea and concept of Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser.
Outline
This Expressionist architecture, ...
in
Vienna
Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. ...
, which has become a notable place of interest in the Austrian capital, characterised by imaginative vitality and uniqueness.
Biography
The Nazi era was a very hard time for Hundertwasser and his mother Elsa, who were
Jewish
Jews (, , ), or the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group and nation, originating from the Israelites of History of ancient Israel and Judah, ancient Israel and Judah. They also traditionally adhere to Judaism. Jewish ethnicity, rel ...
. They avoided persecution by posing as Christians, a credible ruse as Hundertwasser's father had been a Catholic. Hundertwasser was baptized as a Catholic in 1935. To remain inconspicuous, Hundertwasser also joined the
Hitler Youth
The Hitler Youth ( , often abbreviated as HJ, ) was the youth wing of the German Nazi Party. Its origins date back to 1922 and it received the name ("Hitler Youth, League of German Worker Youth") in July 1926. From 1936 until 1945, it was th ...
.
[Pawley, Martin]
Friedensreich Hundertwasse – Maverick architect building against the grain
(obituary), ''The Guardian'', 14 April 2000. Retrieved 1 June 2009. He has identified himself as "half-Jewish".
Hundertwasser developed artistic skills early on. After the war, he spent three months at the
Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. At this time, he began to sign his art as Hundertwasser instead of Stowasser. He left to travel, using a small set of paints he carried at all times to sketch anything that caught his eye. In Florence, he met the young French painter
René Brô for the first time and they became lifelong friends. Hundertwasser's first commercial painting success was in 1952–53 with an exhibition in Vienna.

His adopted surname is based on the translation of "sto" (the Slavic word for "(one) hundred") into German. The name ''Friedensreich'' has a double meaning as "Peace-realm" or "Peace-rich" (in the sense of "peaceful"). Therefore, his name ''Friedensreich Hundertwasser'' translates directly into English as "Peace-Realm Hundred-Water". The other names he chose for himself, ''Regentag'' and ''Dunkelbunt'', translate to "Rainy day" and "Darkly multi-coloured".
In the early 1950s, he entered the field of architecture. Hundertwasser also worked in the field of applied art, creating flags, stamps, coins, and posters. His most famous flag is
his koru flag (designed in 1983), as well as several postage stamps for the Austrian Post Office. He also designed stamps for
Cape Verde
Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country and archipelagic state of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about . These islands ...
and for the
United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is the Earth, global intergovernmental organization established by the signing of the Charter of the United Nations, UN Charter on 26 June 1945 with the stated purpose of maintaining international peace and internationa ...
postal administration in
Geneva
Geneva ( , ; ) ; ; . is the List of cities in Switzerland, second-most populous city in Switzerland and the most populous in French-speaking Romandy. Situated in the southwest of the country, where the Rhône exits Lake Geneva, it is the ca ...
on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is an international document adopted by the United Nations General Assembly that enshrines the Human rights, rights and freedoms of all human beings. Drafted by a UN Drafting of the Universal D ...
.
In 1957 Hundertwasser acquired a farm on the edge of
Normandy
Normandy (; or ) is a geographical and cultural region in northwestern Europe, roughly coextensive with the historical Duchy of Normandy.
Normandy comprises Normandy (administrative region), mainland Normandy (a part of France) and insular N ...
.
[Erika Schmied, W. Schmied: ''Hundertwassers Paradiese. Das verborgene Leben des Friedrich Stowasser.'' Knesebeck, München 2003, .] Hundertwasser married Herta Leitner in 1958 but they divorced two years later. He married again in 1962 to the Japanese artist Yuko Ikewada but she divorced him in 1966. By this time, he had gained a popular reputation for his art.
In 1964 Hundertwasser bought "Hahnsäge", a former saw mill, in the sparsely populated Lower Austria's Waldviertel. There, far from the hustle and bustle and surrounded by nature, he set up a new home.
He spent some time in the 1960s in the
Tooro Kingdom
The Tooro Kingdom is a Bantu peoples, Bantu kingdom located within the borders of Uganda. The current Omukama of Tooro is King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV of Tooro, Rukidi IV. King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV of Tooro, Rukidi ...
in
Uganda
Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the ...
, Central Africa, where he painted a number of works and named them after the kingdom.
In 1972 Hundertwasser incorporated a stock company, the "Grüner Janura AG", in Switzerland; in 2008 it was renamed as "Namida AG". Hundertwasser managed his intellectual property rights through this company.
[Andreas Wetz]
''Hundertwassers verschollenes Millionenerbe''
In: ''Die Presse.com.'', 9. Februar 2013.
In the 1970s, Hundertwasser acquired several properties in the
Bay of Islands
The Bay of Islands is an area on the east coast of the Far North District of the North Island of New Zealand. It is one of the most popular fishing, sailing and tourist destinations in the country, and has been renowned internationally for ...
in the far northern
Te Tai Tokerau
Te Tai Tokerau () is a New Zealand parliamentary Māori electorate that was created out of the Northern Maori electorate ahead of the first Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) election in 1996. It was held first by Tau Henare representing New Zea ...
region of New Zealand, which include a total area of approximately 372 ha of the entire Kaurinui valley. There he realised his dream of living and working closely connected to nature. Beside other projects he designed the "Bottle House" there. He could live largely self-sufficiently using solar panels, a water wheel and a biological water purification plant. His first grass roof experiments took place there.
In 1979 Hundertwasser bought the vast historical garden ''
Giardino Eden'' ('Garden of Eden') in
Venice
Venice ( ; ; , formerly ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 islands that are separated by expanses of open water and by canals; portions of the city are li ...
, including the Palazzo ''Villa delle Rose'', from
Alexandra of Yugoslavia via his Swiss company.
[Francesco Basaldella: Giudecca – Fatti di Cronaca, Filippi Editore – Venezia, 2011, Quaderno di Cultura Giudecchina n.21(24), S. 252, 258–259]
In 1980, Hundertwasser visited
Washington D.C.
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to support activist
Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader (; born February 27, 1934) is an American lawyer and political activist involved in consumer protection, environmentalism, and government reform causes. He is a Perennial candidate, perennial presidential candidate. His 1965 book '' ...
's efforts to oppose nuclear proliferation. Mayor
Marion Barry
Marion Shepilov Barry (born Marion Barry Jr.; March 6, 1936 – November 23, 2014) was an American politician who served as mayor of the District of Columbia from 1979 to 1991 and 1995 to 1999. A Democratic Party (United States), Democrat, Barr ...
declared 18 November to be Hundertwasser Day as a result.
Hundertwasser planted trees in
Judiciary Square
Judiciary Square is a neighborhood in the northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C., the vast majority of which is occupied by various federal and municipal courthouses and office buildings. Judiciary Square is located roughly between Pennsylvania A ...
and advocated on behalf of a
co-op
A cooperative (also known as co-operative, coöperative, co-op, or coop) is "an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democr ...
apartment owner who was taken to court for installing a
bay window
A bay window is a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room. A bow window is a form of bay with a curve rather than angular facets; an oriel window is a bay window that does not touch the g ...
.
In 1982, Hundertwasser's only child, Heidi Trimmel, was born.
[Markus R. Leeb: ]
150 Millionen weg! Hundertwassers Tochter: "Ich wurde um mein Erbe betrogen (150 million away! Hundertwasser's daughter: "I was cheated out of my inheritance")"
'' In: ''News'', 1 August 2013. p. 16ff.
He died on 19 February 2000 on board ''Queen Elizabeth 2'' in the Pacific Ocean, from a heart attack. According to his wish he was buried in harmony with nature on his land in New Zealand, in the Garden of the Happy Dead under a tulip tree.
Artistic style and themes

Hundertwasser's original and unruly artistic vision expressed itself in pictorial art,
environmentalism
Environmentalism is a broad philosophy, ideology, and social movement about supporting life, habitats, and surroundings. While environmentalism focuses more on the environmental and nature-related aspects of green ideology and politics, ecolog ...
,
philosophy
Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...
, and
design
A design is the concept or proposal for an object, process, or system. The word ''design'' refers to something that is or has been intentionally created by a thinking agent, and is sometimes used to refer to the inherent nature of something ...
of
facades,
postage stamp
A postage stamp is a small piece of paper issued by a post office, postal administration, or other authorized vendors to customers who pay postage (the cost involved in moving, insuring, or registering mail). Then the stamp is affixed to the f ...
s,
flag
A flag is a piece of textile, fabric (most often rectangular) with distinctive colours and design. It is used as a symbol, a signalling device, or for decoration. The term ''flag'' is also used to refer to the graphic design employed, and fla ...
s, and
clothing
Clothing (also known as clothes, garments, dress, apparel, or attire) is any item worn on a human human body, body. Typically, clothing is made of fabrics or textiles, but over time it has included garments made from animal skin and other thin s ...
(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 remains
sui generis
( , ) is a Latin phrase that means "of its/their own kind" or "in a class by itself", therefore "unique". It denotes an exclusion to the larger system an object is in relation to.
Several disciplines use the term to refer to unique entities. ...
, although his architectural work is comparable to
Antoni Gaudí
Antoni Gaudí i Cornet ( , ; ; 25 June 1852 – 10 June 1926) was a Catalans, Catalan architect and designer from Spain, widely known as the greatest exponent of Catalan ''Modernisme''. Gaudí's works have a style, with most located in Barc ...
(1852–1926) in its use of
biomorphic forms and the use of tile. He was also inspired by the art of the
Vienna Secession
The Vienna Secession (; also known as the Union of Austrian Artists or ) is an art movement, closely related to Art Nouveau, that was formed in 1897 by a group of Austrian painters, graphic artists, sculptors and architects, including Josef Ho ...
, and by the Austrian painters
Egon Schiele
Egon Leo Adolf Ludwig Schiele (; 12 June 1890 – 31 October 1918) was an Austrian Expressionist painters, painter. His work is noted for its intensity and its raw sexuality, and for the many self-portraits the artist produced, including nude sel ...
(1890–1918) and
Gustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt (14 July 1862 – 6 February 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and a founding member of the Vienna Secession movement. His work helped define the Art Nouveau style in Europe. Klimt is known for his paintings, murals, sket ...
(1862–1918).
He was fascinated by
spiral
In mathematics, a spiral is a curve which emanates from a point, moving further away as it revolves around the point. It is a subtype of whorled patterns, a broad group that also includes concentric objects.
Two-dimensional
A two-dimension ...
s, 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. This was encapsulated by his design of a new flag for New Zealand, which incorporated the image of the
Koru
The is a spiral shape evoking a newly Circinate vernation, unfurling frond from a Cyathea dealbata, silver fern frond. It is an integral symbol in Māori people, Māori art, bone carving, carving and Tā moko, tattooing, where it symbolise ...
a spiral shape based on the image of a new unfurling silver fern frond and symbolising new life, growth, strength and peace according to the
Māori people
Māori () are the Indigenous peoples of Oceania, indigenous Polynesians, Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand. Māori originated with settlers from East Polynesia, who arrived in New Zealand in several waves of Māori migration canoes, c ...
.
Architecture

Even though 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
The Hundertwasserhaus ("Hundertwasser house") is an Apartment building, apartment house in Vienna, Austria, completed in 1985, after the idea and concept of Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser.
Outline
This Expressionist architecture, ...
'' 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 1950s 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 1958 on the occasion of an art and architectural event held at the Seckau Monastery. He rejected the straight line and the functional architecture.
[see Wieland Schmied, Hundertwasser 1928–2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Köln: Taschen 2001/2002, Band 2, S. 1167] In Munich in 1967 he gave a lecture called "Speech in Nude for the Right to a Third Skin". His lecture "Loose from Loos, A Law Permitting Individual Buildings Alterations or Architecture-Boycott Manifesto", was given at the Concordia Press Club in Vienna in 1968.
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."
In his nude speeches of 1967 and 1968 Hundertwasser condemned the enslavement of humans by the sterile grid system of conventional architecture and by the output of mechanised industrial production. He rejected rationalism, the straight line and functional architecture.
For Hundertwasser, human misery was a result of the rational, sterile, monotonous architecture, built following the tradition of the Austrian architect
Adolf Loos
Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos (; 10 December 1870 – 23 August 1933) was an Austrian and Czechoslovak architect, influential European theorist, and a polemicist of modern architecture. He was inspired by modernism and a widely-known c ...
, author of the modernist manifesto ''
Ornament and crime
"Ornament and Crime" is an essay and lecture by Modernism, modernist architect Adolf Loos that criticizes ornament (art), ornament in useful objects.
History
Contrary to popular belief that it was composed in 1908, Adolf Loos first gave the lec ...
'' (1908). 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 1972 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." Hundertwasser propagated a type of architecture in harmony with nature in his ecological commitment. 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 favour of nature protection, including against
nuclear power
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, to save the oceans and the whales and to protect the rainforest. He was also an advocate of
composting toilet
A composting toilet is a type of dry toilet that treats human waste by a biological process called composting. This process leads to the decomposition of organic matter and turns human waste into compost-like material. Composting is carried out b ...
s and the principle of
constructed wetland
A constructed wetland is an artificial wetland to treat sewage, greywater, stormwater runoff or Industrial wastewater treatment, industrial wastewater. It may also be designed for land reclamation after mining, or as a Flood mitigation, mitigatio ...
. He perceived
feces
Feces (also known as faeces American and British English spelling differences#ae and oe, or fæces; : faex) are the solid or semi-solid remains of food that was not digested in the small intestine, and has been broken down by bacteria in the ...
not as nauseous but as part of the cycle of nature. His beliefs are testified by his manifesto ''The Holy Shit'' and his DIY guide for building a composting toilet.
In the 1970s, Hundertwasser had his first architectural models built. The models for the Eurovision TV-show "Wünsch Dir was" (Make a Wish) in 1972 exemplified his ideas on forested roofs, tree tenants and the window right. In these and similar models he developed new architectural shapes, such as the spiral house, the eye-slit house, the terrace house and the high-rise meadow house.
In 1974, Peter Manhardt made models for him of the
pit-house
A pit-house (or pit house, pithouse) is a house built in the ground and used for shelter. Besides providing shelter from the most extreme of weather conditions, this type of earth shelter may also be used to store food (just like a pantry, a l ...
, the grass roof house and the green service station – along with his idea of the invisible, inaudible Green Motorway.
In the early 1980s Hundertwasser remodelled the Rosenthal Factory in Selb, and the Mierka Grain Silo in Krems. These projects gave him the opportunity to act as what he called an "architecture doctor".
In architectural projects that followed he implemented window right and tree tenants, uneven floors, woods on the roof, and spontaneous vegetation. Works of this period include: housing complexes in Germany; a church in Bärnbach, Austria; a district heating plant in Vienna; an incineration plant and sludge centre in Osaka, Japan; a railway station in Uelzen; a winery in Napa Valley; and the
Hundertwasser toilet in
Kawakawa, New Zealand
Kawakawa is a small town in the Bay of Islands area of the Northland Region of New Zealand. Kawakawa developed as a service town when coal was found there in the 1860s, but coal mining ceased in the early 20th century. The economy is now based o ...
.
In 1993 Hundertwasser was invited to design an arts centre. He completed the design but the project was not completed at that time. The project was finally approved in 2015 and became the
Hundertwasser Art Centre, opening to the public in 2022. This became the last authentic Hundertwasser building to be completed.
In 1999 Hundertwasser started his last project named
Die Grüne Zitadelle von Magdeburg (in German). Although he never completed this work, the building was built a few years later in
Magdeburg
Magdeburg (; ) is the Capital city, capital of the Germany, German States of Germany, state Saxony-Anhalt. The city is on the Elbe river.
Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, Otto I, the first Holy Roman Emperor and founder of the Archbishopric of Mag ...
, a town in eastern Germany, and opened on 3 October 2005.
;Buildings
*
Hundertwasserhaus
The Hundertwasserhaus ("Hundertwasser house") is an Apartment building, apartment house in Vienna, Austria, completed in 1985, after the idea and concept of Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser.
Outline
This Expressionist architecture, ...
,
Vienna
Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. ...
, Austria
* District Heating Plant, Spittelau, Vienna, Austria
*
Hundertwasserhaus Waldspirale,
Darmstadt
Darmstadt () is a city in the States of Germany, state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Frankfurt Rhine Main Area, Rhine-Main-Area (Frankfurt Metropolitan Region). Darmstadt has around 160,000 inhabitants, making it the ...
, Germany
*
KunstHausWien
The KunstHausWien is a museum in Vienna, designed by the artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser. This museum in the Landstraße district houses the world's only permanent exhibition of Hundertwasser's works, and also hosts regular temporary exhibiti ...
, Vienna, Austria
* ''Kindergarten Heddernheim'',
Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main () is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Hesse. Its 773,068 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the List of cities in Germany by population, fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located in the forela ...
* Motorway Restaurant,
Bad Fischau-Brunn, Austria
* Hot Springs Village,
Bad Blumau, Austria
* ''Hundertwasserkirche'',
Bärnbach, Austria
* Markthalle,
Altenrhein
Thal is a village and municipality in the ''Wahlkreis'' (constituency) of Rorschach in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Besides the village of Thal itself, the municipality also includes the villages of Altenrhein, Buechen, Buriet and ...
, Switzerland
*
Wohnen unterm Regenturm,
Plochingen
Plochingen (; or ) is a town in the district of Esslingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It lies on the river Neckar, on which it has a river port. With about 14,000 inhabitants, it is part of the Stuttgart Metropolitan Region.
Geo ...
, Germany
*
Quixote Winery,
Napa Valley
Napa Valley is an American Viticultural Area (AVA) in Napa County, California. The area was established by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) on February 27, 1981, after a 1978 petition submitted by the Napa Valley Vin ...
, United States, 1988–1998 (his only building in the US)
* Maishima Incineration Plant,
Osaka
is a Cities designated by government ordinance of Japan, designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the List of cities in Japan, third-most populous city in J ...
, Japan, 1997–2000
*
Hundertwasser toilet,
Kawakawa, New Zealand, 1999
*
Hundertwasser "environmental railway station",
Uelzen
Uelzen (; ), officially the Hanseatic City of Uelzen (), is a town in northeast Lower Saxony, Germany, and capital of the district of Uelzen. It is part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region, a Hanseatic town and an independent municipality.
Uelz ...
, Germany, 1999–2001
* ''Die Grüne Zitadelle von Magdeburg'',
Magdeburg
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Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, Otto I, the first Holy Roman Emperor and founder of the Archbishopric of Mag ...
, Germany, 2003–2005
* ''Ronald McDonald Kinder Vallei'',
Valkenburg aan de Geul
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, Netherlands
*
Kuchlbauer-Turm,
Abensberg
Abensberg () is a town in the Lower Bavarian Districts of Germany, district of Kelheim (district), Kelheim, in Bavaria, Germany, lying around southwest of Regensburg, east of Ingolstadt, northwest of Landshut and north of Munich. It is situa ...
, Germany, 2008–2010
*
Hundertwasser Art Centre,
Whangārei
Whangārei () is the northernmost city in New Zealand and the largest settlement of the Northland Region. It is part of the Whangarei District, created in 1989 from the former Whangarei City, Whangarei County and Hikurangi Town councils to admi ...
, New Zealand, 2022
An art gallery featuring Hundertwasser's work was established in the Hundertwasser Art Centre in
Whangārei
Whangārei () is the northernmost city in New Zealand and the largest settlement of the Northland Region. It is part of the Whangarei District, created in 1989 from the former Whangarei City, Whangarei County and Hikurangi Town councils to admi ...
, New Zealand, and will brought to fruition his 1993 plans for the building.
Paintings
* 1959 – Kaaba-Penis, die halbe Insel,
Hamburg
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Collection Poppe
* 1954 – Hundertwasser develops the
Transautomatism
Friedrich Stowasser (15 December 1928 – 19 February 2000), better known by his pseudonym Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser (), was an Austrian visual artist and architect who also worked in the field of environmental protection ...
art theory.
* 1967 – "
Kingdom of the Toro" series
* various ''
Furoshiki
are traditional Japanese wrapping cloths traditionally used to wrap and/or to transport goods. Consideration is placed on the aesthetics of , which may feature hemmed edges, thicker and more expensive materials, and hand-painted designs; ho ...
'' designs
Stamps and medals
The extensive work of Hundertwasser includes 26 stamps for various postal administrations. Seventeen of these designs were – in part after his death – implemented as postage stamps.
* Austria
** Modern Art in Austria, 1975
** Council of Europe Summit, Vienna, 1993
** 80th Birthday Friedensreich Hundertwasser (4 stamps in the form of a block), 2008
* Senegal – art on stamps (3 stamps), 1979
* Cape Verde Islands – Shipping, 1982 (printed but not issued), 1985 (issued with overprint)
* United Nations Postal Administration (Vienna, Geneva and New York ) – 35th Anniversary of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is an international document adopted by the United Nations General Assembly that enshrines the Human rights, rights and freedoms of all human beings. Drafted by a UN Drafting of the Universal D ...
(6 stamps), 1983
* Liechtenstein – Homage to Liechtenstein, 1993
Two of the unrealised designs are alternative designs for a stamp issue (United Nations, Senegal) and were therefore not performed. Seven other designs created for the postal administrations of Morocco and French Polynesia were not realised as a postage stamp.
In addition, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, has adapted some of his works for stamp issues. On the basis of these adaptations have been stamps issued by:
* France – 2 badges for € Europe, 1994
* United Nations Postal Administration (Vienna, Geneva and New York) – Social Summit (3 stamps), 1995
* Luxembourg – European Capital of Culture (3 stamps), 1995
* Liechtenstein – EXPO 2000 in Hanover (3 stamps), 2000
The Austrian post office used more Hundertwasser motives for the European edition 1987 (Modern architecture, Hundertwasser House), on the occasion of his death in 2000 (painting Blue Blues, under the WIPA 2000) and 2004 National Donauauen (poster: ''The outdoors is our freedom'' at civil protests in
Hainburg).
For the first time a Hundertwasser motive was also used on a Cuban stamp, as part of the art exhibition Salon de Mayo (
Havana
Havana (; ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center.[Council of Europe
The Council of Europe (CoE; , CdE) is an international organisation with the goal of upholding human rights, democracy and the Law in Europe, rule of law in Europe. Founded in 1949, it is Europe's oldest intergovernmental organisation, represe ...](_bl ...<br></span></div>, 1967).
With the exception of service marks for the <div class=)
and the Cuban stamp, all stamps were engraved by Wolfgang Seidel and by the Austrian State Printing Office in a complex combination printing process produces (intaglio printing, rotogravure printing, as well as metal stamping).
Hundertwasser also worked as a medallist.
Books
* In 1989
Brockhaus released a 24-volume limited special edition of its encyclopaedia with 1800 pieces, entirely designed by Hundertwasser. Each individual cover of this edition varies in colour of the linen as well as in the colours of foil stamping, making each copy a unique piece. "No band, no cover I designed the encyclopedia is equal to the other. Nevertheless, they attack each other with all their differences and come together to form an overall picture. This is networking among themselves a symbol of knowledge, the Brockhaus gives." (F. Hundertwasser)
* Stowasser: Latin-German school dictionary of Joseph Maria Stowasser. For the newly published 1994 edition of the dictionary "Little Stowasser" Hundertwasser-designed textile bindings in 100 different colour variations.
* Bible. 1995, Size: 20x28, 5 cm, 1688 pages, 80 full-page images, including 30 collages, the hundreds of water specifically for this Bible – Edition has created. Each Bible is characterised by a different colour combination of linen textiles. Also the specimens differ in the bright shining metal colour imprints. Each cover is made mainly by hand.
Political views
Beginning in the 1950s Hundertwasser travelled globally promoting ecological causes. In 1959 Hundertwasser got involved with helping the
Dalai Lama
The Dalai Lama (, ; ) is the head of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. The term is part of the full title "Holiness Knowing Everything Vajradhara Dalai Lama" (圣 识一切 瓦齐尔达喇 达赖 喇嘛) given by Altan Khan, the first Shu ...
escape from
Tibet
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by campaigning for the Tibetan religious leader in Carl Laszlo's magazine ''Panderma''. In later years, when he was already a known artist, Friedensreich Hundertwasser became an
environmental activist
The environmental movement (sometimes referred to as the ecology movement) is a social movement that aims to protect the natural world from harmful environmental practices in order to create sustainable living. In its recognition of humanity a ...
and most recently operated as a more prominent opponent of the
European Union
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, advocating the preservation of regional peculiarities.
Among the lesser-known facets of Hundertwasser's personality is his commitment to
constitutional monarchy
Constitutional monarchy, also known as limited monarchy, parliamentary monarchy or democratic monarchy, is a form of monarchy in which the monarch exercises their authority in accordance with a constitution and is not alone in making decisions. ...
:
Austria needs something to look up to, consisting of perennial higher valuesof which one now hardly dares to speaksuch as beauty, culture, internal and external peace, faith, richness of heart ..Austria needs an emperor, who is subservient to the people. A superior and radiant figure in whom everyone has confidence, because this great figure is a possession of all. The rationalist way of thinking has brought us, in this century, an ephemeral higher, American standard of living at the expense of nature and creation, which is now coming to an end, for it is destroying our heart, our quality of life, our longing, without which an Austrian does not want to live. It is outrageous that Austria has an emperor who did no evil to anyone but is still treated like a leper. Austria needs a crown! Long live Austria! Long live the constitutional monarchy! Long live Otto von Habsburg
Otto von Habsburg (, ; 20 November 1912 4 July 2011) was the last crown prince of Austria-Hungary from 1916 until the dissolution of the empire in November 1918. In 1922, he became the pretender to the former thrones, head of the House of Habs ...
!
- Friedensreich Hundertwasser, ''Für die Wiederkehr der konstitutionellen Monarchie'' (For the Return of the Constitutional Monarchy
Constitutional monarchy, also known as limited monarchy, parliamentary monarchy or democratic monarchy, is a form of monarchy in which the monarch exercises their authority in accordance with a constitution and is not alone in making decisions. ...
).[Hundertwasser's German term ''konstitutionelle Monarchie'' (constitutional monarchy) refers to a form of monarchy in which the monarch still has considerable influence in day-to-day politics, while the form in which the monarch is only a figurehead is called ''parlamentarische Monarchie'' (parliamentary monarchy).]
Kaurinui, New Zealand, 28 March 1983; dedicated, on 14 May 1987, to Otto von Habsburg
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for his 75th birthday.
Influence
* In New Zealand his design beliefs have been adopted by a New Zealand terracotta tile manufacturer, who promotes his style as "Organic Tiling". The tiling is designed by Chris Southern, who worked with Hundertwasser on the
Kawakawa toilets. In 2022 an art gallery opened in
Whangārei
Whangārei () is the northernmost city in New Zealand and the largest settlement of the Northland Region. It is part of the Whangarei District, created in 1989 from the former Whangarei City, Whangarei County and Hikurangi Town councils to admi ...
, New Zealand, styled on his methods and including his artwork.
* In 1987, at the request of
John Lydon
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, British designer and illustrator
Richard Evans produced a homage to Hundertwasser for the cover of
Public Image Limited's album ''
Happy?''.
Awards
* 1959: Sanbra prize at the São Paulo Biennale, V.
* 1961: Mainichi Prize in Tokyo
* 1980:
Grand Austrian State Prize
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It was originally created in 1950 by then education mi ...
for Visual Arts
* 1981: Austrian Nature Protection Award
* 1982: Award-winning Author of the year
* 1985: Officier de
l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
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* 1988: Gold Medal of the City of Vienna
* 1988: Gold Medal of
Styria
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* 1997:
Grand Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria
Documentary films
*
Ferry Radax: ''Hundertwasser – Leben in Spiralen'' (Hundertwasser – life in spirals, 1966). Ferry Radax first documentary on his fellow-countryman.
* Ferry Radax: ''Hundertwasser in Neuseeland'' (Hundertwasser in New Zealand, 1998). After 30 years Ferry Radax made a second portrait of the artist.
*
Peter Schamoni: ''Hundertwasser Regentag'' (
Hundertwasser's Rainy Day, 1972). An award-winning German documentary about the artist rebuilding an old wooden ship called ''Regentag'' (Rainy Day).
Podcast
Hundertwasser Architecture as Spontaneous Vegetation by 99% Invisible.
Literature
Catalogue raisonné
* Hundertwasser, Vollständiger Oeuvre-Katalog publiziert aus Anlass der 100. Ausstellung der Kestner-Gesellschaft, Text by Wieland Schmied (ed.), with 100 coloured reproductions. Kestner-Gesellschaft Hannover, Hanover, 1964
* David Kung (ed.), The Woodcut Works of Hundertwasser 1960–1975, Glarus: Gruener Janura AG, 1977
* Walter Koschatzky, Friedensreich Hundertwasser. The complete graphic work 1951–1986. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1986.
* Hundertwasser 1928–2000. Catalogue raisonné. Vol. I: Wieland Schmied: Personality, Life, Work. Vol. II: Andrea Fürst: Catalogue raisonné. Cologne: Taschen, 2000/2002
* Hundertwasser Graphic Works 1994–2000, Vienna: Museums Betriebs Gesellschaft, 2001
Monographs
* Werner Hofmann, Hundertwasser, Salzburg: Verlag Galerie Welz, 1965 (German and English editions)
* Francois Mathey, Hundertwasser, Naefels: Bonfini Press Corporation, 1985
* Harry Rand, Hundertwasser, Cologne: Taschen, 1991 (reprint 2018)
* Pierre Restany, Hundertwasser. The Power of Art – The Painter-King with the Five Skins, Cologne: Taschen, 1998
* Hundertwasser 1928–2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 1 by Wieland Schmied: Personality, Life, Work, Vol. 2 by Andrea Christa Fürst: Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne: Taschen, 2000/2002
* Pierre Restany, Hundertwasser, New York: Parkstone, 2008
Architectural monographs
* Robert Schediwy, Hundertwassers Häuser. Dokumente einer Kontroverse über zeitgemäße Architektur. Vienna: Edition Tusch, 1999, .
* Hundertwasser Architecture, For a more human architecture in harmony with nature, Cologne: Taschen, 1997 (reprint 2018)
Exhibitions
* Hundertwasser Malerei, Art Club, Vienna, 1952
* Studio Paul Facchetti, Paris, 1954
* Galerie H. Kamer, Paris, 1957
* Rétrospective Hundertwasser 1950–1960, Galerie Raymond Cordier, Paris, 1960
* Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, 1961
* Hundertwasser ist ein Geschenk für Deutschland, Galerie Änne Abels, Cologne, 1963
* Travelling Exhibition 1964/65, Hundertwasser: Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover; Kunsthalle Bern; Karl-Ernst-Osthaus-Museum, Hagen; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna
* Travelling Exhibition 1968/69: USA, Hundertwasser; University Art Museum, Berkeley; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Arts Club of Chicago; The Galerie St. Etienne, New York; The Phillips Collection, Washington DC
* Galerie Brockstedt, Hamburg, 1968/1969
* Aberbach Fine Art, New York, 1973
* Travelling Exhibition 1973/74, Hundertwasser 1973 New Zealand, City of Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland; Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth; The New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington; City Art Gallery, Christchurch; City Art Gallery, Dunedin
* Travelling Exhibition, Hundertwasser 1974 Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Albert Hall, Canberra; Opera, Sydney
* Stowasser 1943 bis Hundertwasser 1974, Albertina, Vienna, 1974
* Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1975
* Austria Presents Hundertwasser to the Continents. The World Travelling Museum Exhibition took place in 43 museums in 27 countries from 1975 to 1983.
* Hundertwasser. Das gesamte graphische Werk, Tapisserien, Mönchehaus-Museum für Moderne Kunst, Goslar, Germany, 1978
* Hundertwasser Tapisserien, Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, 1979
* Travelling Exhibition 1979–1981, Hundertwasser Is Painting, Aberbach Fine Art, New York; Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo; Galerie Brockstedt, Hamburg; Hammerlunds Kunsthandel; Galerie Würthle, Vienna
* Hundertwasser – Sérigraphies, eaux fortes, gravures sur bois japonaises, lithographies, Artcurial, Paris, 1980
* Hundertwasser – Peintures Récentes, Artcurial, Paris, 1982
* Paintings by Hundertwasser, Aberbach Fine Art, New York, 1983
* Hundertwasser – Kunst und Umwelt, Mönchehaus-Museum für Moderne Kunst, Goslar, Germany, 1984
* Hundertwasser à Tahiti – Gravure, Musée Gauguin, Tahiti, 1985/1986
* Hundertwasser – Aus dem graphischen Werk, BAWAG Foundation, Vienna, 1986
* Travelling exhibition 1989: Japan, Hundertwasser; Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo; Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima; Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama
* Friedensreich Hundertwasser – Originale, Objekte, Gobelins, Graphiken, Galerie am Lindenplatz, Schaan, Liechtenstein, 1993
* Hundertwasser – Important works, Landau Fine Art, Montreal, 1994/1995
* Friedensreich Hundertwasser – Die Waagerechte gehört der Natur, Mönchehaus-Museum für Moderne Kunst, Goslar, Germany, 1997
* Hundertwasser Retrospektive, Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany, 1998
* Travelling Exhibition 1998/99: Japan, Hundertwasser; Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo; Museum "EKi", Kyoto; Sakura City Museum of Art, Chiba
* Travelling Exhibition 1999: Japan, Hundertwasser Architecture – For a More Human Architecture in Harmony With Nature, Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Takamatsu; Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya; Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe; The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
* Hundertwasser – Peintures Parcours Rétrospectif, Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris, 1999/2000
* Hundertwasser Gedächtnisausstellung, Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, Austria, 2000
* Hundertwasser 1928–2000, Russeck Gallery, Palm Beach, 2000
* Hundertwasser-Architektur – Von der Utopie zur Realität, KunstHausWien, Vienna, 2000/2001
* Hommage à Hundertwasser 1928–2000, Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle, Alençon, France, 2001
* Hundertwasser. Kunst – Mensch – Natur, Minoritenkloster, Tulln and Egon Schiele-Museum, Tulln, Lower Austria, 2004
* Hundertwasser. Fantastische Architectuur, Kunsthal Rotterdam, 2004
* Travelling Exhibition 2005/06: Germany, Friedensreich Hundertwasser – Ein Sonntagsarchitekt. Gebaute Träume und Sehnsüchte; Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM), Frankfurt; Stiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen, Schloss Gottorf; Kunstforum der
Bausparkasse Schwäbisch Hall
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AG, Schwäbisch Hall; Städtische Museen Zwickau, Kunstsammlungen, Zwickau
* Travelling Exhibition 2006/07: Japan, Remainders of an Ideal. The Visions and Practices of HUNDERTWASSER, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; Musee d`art Mercian Karuizawa; Mitsukoshi Museum, Tokyo; Shimonoseki Museum, Yamaguchi
* The Art of Friedensreich Hundertwasser. A Magical Eccentric, Szépmüvészeti Museum, Budapest, 2007/2008
* Hundertwasser. La raccolta dei sogni, Art Forum Würth, Capena near Rome, 2008
* Hundertwasser – Jüdische Aspekte, Jüdisches Museum Rendsburg, Julius-Magnus Haus, Rendsburg, Germany, 2008
* Hundertwasser. In Harmonie mit der Natur, Minoritenkloster, Tulln, Austria, 2008
* "den Cherub betören". Friedensreich Hundertwasser und die Sehnsucht des Menschen nach dem Paradies, Christuskirche in Mainz and Landesmuseum Mainz, Germany, 2008
* Musee d'Unterlinden, Colmar, France, 2008
* The Yet Unknown Hundertwasser, KunstHausWien, Vienna, 2008/2009
* H U N D E R T W A S S E R. Symbiose von Technik, Ökologie und Kunst. Die Wiedergutmachung an Industriegebäuden, Fernwärme Wien, Vienna, 2009
* Hundertwasser-Pfad durch die Fernwärme Wien, Vienna, 2009
* HUNDERTWASSER 2010 IN SEOUL, Seoul Arts Center – Design Museum, Seoul, Korea, 2010/2011
* Hundertwasser – The Art of the Green Path, 20 years KunstHausWien anniversary exhibition, KunstHausWien, Austria, 2011
* Hundertwasser – Le Rêve de la couleur, Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, France, 2012
* Friedensreich Hundertwasser: Against the Grain. Works 1949–1970. Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany, 2012/2013
* Hundertwasser – Japan and the Avant-garde. Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Unteres Belvedere/Orangerie, Vienna, 2013
* Dans la peau de Hundertwasser, Museé en Herbe, Paris, 2014
* HUNDERTWASSER: DE RECHTE LIJN IS GODDELOOS, Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Amstelveen, Netherlands, 2013/2014
* Hundertwasser, Arken Museum, Ishøj, Denmark, 2014
* Friedensreich Hundertwasser – Die Ernte der Träume, Sammlung Würth, Forum Würth Arlesheim, Switzerland, 2017
* Hundertwasser – Lebenslinien, Osthaus Museum Hagen, Hagen, Germany, 2015
* Hundertwasser. Schön & Gut, Buchheim Museum, Bernried, Germany, 2016/2017
* Hundertwasser – The green city, Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea, 2016/2017
* Hundertwasser – En route pour le bonheur!, Musée de Millau et de Grands Causses, Millau, Frankreich, 2018
Collections
*Akademie der bildenden Künste, Gemäldegalerie, Vienna, Austria
*Akademie der bildenden Künste, Kupferstichkabinett, Vienna, Austria
*Albertina, Vienna, Austria
*Albertina, Vienna – Sammlung Essl
*Albertina, Vienna – Sammlung Batliner
*Artothek des Bundes, Vienna, Austria
*
Belvedere Museum, Austria.
*
Brooklyn Museum
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, New York, USA
*Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
*Cincinnati Art Museum, USA
*Erzbischöfliches Dom- und Diözesanmuseum, Vienna, Austria
*Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany
*Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway
*Herbert Liaunig Privatstiftung, Austria
*Hilti Foundation, Liechtenstein
*Iwaki City Art Museum, Japan
*KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Denmark
*Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany
*KunstHausWien, Museum Hundertwasser, Vienna, Austria
*KunstHausVienna, Museum Hundertwasser, Vienna, Austria
*Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Germany
*Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
*MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria
*McMaster Museum of Art, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
*Mishkan Le'Omanut, Museum of Art, Ein-Harod, Israel
*MUMOK – Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria
*
Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
*Musée d'Art moderne, Troyes, France
*Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Chile
*Museo del Novecento, Collezione Boschi di Stefano, Milan, Italy
*Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain
*Museu de Arte Contemporanea da USP, São Paulo, Brasil
*Museum der Moderne – Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria
*Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
*
Museum of Modern Art
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, New York
*Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel, Museum Schloss Wilhelmshöhe, Graphische Sammlung, Germany
*muzej moderne i suvremene umjetnosti – museum of modern and contemporary art, Rijeka, Croatia
*Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan
*
National Gallery of Art, Washington
*Nationalgalerie Prag / Narodni galerie v Praze, Czech Republic
*Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Kopenhagen, Denmark
*Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
*Osthaus Museum Hagen, Germany
*Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
*Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
*Saint Louis University, USA
*Sammlung Würth, Künzelsau, Germany
*San Diego Museum of Art, USA
*
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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, USA
*
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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, New York, USA
*Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, USA
*Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hanover, Germany
*Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
*Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands
*Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
*Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Japan
*The Gerard L. Cafesjian Collection, Yerevan, Armenia
*The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, USA
*The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
*The
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
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, Kansas City, USA
*The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Japan
*Wien Museum, Vienna, Austria
See also
*
Roof garden
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*
Green roof
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*
Urban agriculture
*
Skyrise greenery
A roof garden is a garden on the roof of a building. Besides the decorative benefit, roof plantings may provide food, temperature control, hydrological benefits, architectural enhancement, habitats or corridors for wildlife, recreational oppo ...
*
Cool roof
*
Green wall
A green wall is a vertical built structure intentionally covered by vegetation. Green walls include a vertically applied growth medium such as soil, substitute substrate, or hydroculture felt; as well as an integrated hydration and fertigation ...
Notes
References
Sources
* Harry Rand (2007). ''Hundertwasser 25th''. .
External links
Website of Hundertwasser FoundationHundertwasser Online EncyclopediaOn HundertwasserHundertwasserhaus website
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