Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Friedrich Stowasser, 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.
"A person in a rented apartment must be able to lean out of his window and scrape off the masonry within arms reach. And he must be allowed to take a long brush and paint everything outside within arms 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."
"There are no evils in Nature, there are only evils of Man."
"Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all."
"We must at last put a stop to having people move into their quarters like chickens and rabbits into their coops."
"I close my eyes halfway just as when I conceive paintings and I see the houses Dunkelbunt -glowing in pure strong and deep colours a little sad like seem on a rainy day instead of ugly cream colour and green meadows on all roofs instead of corrugated iron. p.6"
"Only when architect, bricklayer and tenant are a unity, or one and the same person, can we speak of architecture. Everything else is not architecture, but a criminal act which has taken on form."
"Today we live in a chaos of straight lines, in a jungle of straight lines. If you do not believe this, take the trouble to count the straight lines which surround you. Then you will understand, for you will never finish counting."
"The straight line is godless and immoral."
"I am looking forward to become humus myself buried naked without coffin under a beech tree planted by myself on my land in ao tea roa. p6"
