Bidspirit auction | Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Friedensreich Hundertwasser - Friedensreich Hundertwasser 1928 Vienna - 2000 aboard the Queen Elizabeth II - The Four Strangers - (1992) Color woodcut/paper. 186/200. 50 x 37 cm, 57.5 x 42.5 cm (sheet size), 71.5 x 51.5 cm (dimensions with frame). Signed, numbered, localized and dated lower right: Hundertwasser 119A Vienna on 19.(0)9.1992. Framed under glass. Gallery invoice (Artes) from 1993 is available. - Lit.: Fürst, Andrea Christa. Hundertwasser. 1928-2000. Catalogue Raisonné. Vol. II. Cologne 2002, No. 939. In 1949, he dropped out of his painting studies after three months at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. From 1981 to 97, he taught as a professor in the painting class there. The pacifist and environmental activist realized numerous international building projects in his unmistakable style, with which he turned against rationalism in architecture. In painting, the spiral became an important motif. Hundertwasser received numerous awards.