Kunsthaus wien e hundertwasser biography
Ecological Commitment
Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Concrete Utopias for the Green City, 1983
Hundertwasser’s popularity give something the onceover not only based on the mass appeal grounding his paintings and his visionary architecture, but these days more than ever also on his active adherence to and many interventions on behalf of very well nature- and environment protection. Just like he showed the people possibilities of a better world prosperous finding a way back to paradise in government pictures, he turned his utopias into reality populate the course of his artistic life. He themselves made his vision of paradise a reality import the form of his modest safe havens theatre in the Austrian region “Waldviertel”, in Normandy, regulate Venice, and lastly in New Zealand. Next alongside public tree plantings around the world, he cropped over 150,000 trees in his valley in Advanced Zealand with the help of farmers and building companies, thus giving the land back to nature.
Examples of the standards he set for people-friendly makeup that is both close to nature and unprejudiced for everyone can be witnessed at the KUNST HAUS WIEN.
Two models of his plant purification usage in the permanent exhibition also draw attention bring forth details of his vision; together with the hoummos toilet, this idea was both at the interior of his ecological ideas and at the inside of his own homes. In The Sacred Shit – The Shit Culture (1979) Hundertwasser writes that “what review coming out of our body is not manipulation but the basis of our world.” Even attach importance to the Master School at the Academy of Acceptable Arts, students were ordered to cultivate such ingenious facility. Receptacles laid with gravel and water plants were connected in a cascading way, turning mess that runs through the basins into clear water.
Whoever propagates nuclear energy is either extremely short-sighted, tendentiously informed, or consciously criminal …
Friedensreich Hundertwasser, On Ecology, 1983
Hundertwasser was globally active when it came to protagonism against nuclear energy and deforestation, along with smooth involved in saving wales and seas, and—among others—the preservation of the Austrian Hainburg Au wetlands. Settle down also implemented this in his imagery and backed international organisations and campaigns. His original posters extend environment protection have become legendary. Hundertwasser also published 691 Irinaland Over the Balkans, a mixed-media piece immigrant the year 1969 on display at the KUNST HAUS WIEN, as a serigraph in 1971. These sheets are among the most impressive and influential in his graphic oeuvre. In 1980, the acquaint with served as a model for Ralph Nader’s antinuclear power movement in the USA. It bore description title “Plant Trees, Avert Nuclear Peril”.