Bidspirit auction | Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Friedensreich Hundertwasser - Friedensreich Hundertwasser 1928 Vienna - 2000 on board the Queen Elizabeth II - ”Seereise” - (1967) Color etching/paper (single sheet from the book ”Paroles peintes” (7 poètes accompagnés de 7 peintres) to the text ”Eros en Ergumène” by Denis Roche). 32 x 24.3 cm, 39.5 x 28.8 cm, 39.5 x 57.2 cm (total size, opened). Signed in print m. u.: friedensreich. The sheet is loose. Soiled. Minimally foxing. - Ref.: HWG24, catalog raisonné 639 In 1949 he broke off his painting studies after three months at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. From 1981 to 97 he headed the painting class there as a professor. The pacifist and environmental activist realized numerous international building projects in his unmistakable style, with which he turned against rationalism in architecture. The spiral became an important motif in his paintings. Hundertwasser received numerous awards.