Short biography to use in CLIL lessons in 3rd and 4th grade.

1. HUNDERTWASSER

2. • His real name is Friedrich Stowasser.
• El prefix Sto in Chec means "one hundred" in English,
and "Hundert" in german.
• “Wasser” means water.
• The name of Friedensreich means “place of peace” .
• So, his name Friedensreich Hundertwasser means "
one hundred water place of peace".

3. • He was born in Viena on 15th of December
in 1928 and he died on 19th of February in
2000.
• Son of a Jewish family suffered Nazi
repression.
• He began to be an artist in 1950.

4. • He lived in New Zealand where he arrived
with his ship "Regentag”.
• He was an ecologist. He was against
nuclear energy, pollution… and defensed
nature.

5. • He was a versatile artist: he painted,
made ​​buildings, posters, clothes, ceramics ...

6. • His art has a very characteristic style: he
rejects straight line. He works with nature
shapes and spirals. He uses bright colours and
organic designs.

7. Grass for those who cry
1974

8. I still don’t know
1960

9. Who has eaten all my windows
1966
Spirals represent life and death.

10. • His art theory is called "Transautomatism”. It is a
modern style of painting, founded by
Friedensreich Hundertwasser. Different people
see different things in the same picture. The
artist's intention is not important, therefore,
what is important is how the people interpret it.
Transautomatism is about Hundertwasser's
theory that straight lines are not good because
they don’t exist in nature. Humans have lost
connection with nature, and live in boxes as
houses.

11. WINDOW RIGHTS
• Between 1969 and 1971 he lived in his boat and
there he developed his theory on the “WINDOW
RIGHTS”.
• He thinks that people should be able to change their
houses and design them. Design the piece of wall
that can be reached by pulling the arm from the
window.
• So cities do not seem prisons with grey squares
buildings.

13. TREE TENANTS
• He thinks that nature has to grow free everywhere
where rain and snow falls, so the buildings are also
growing nature.
Warlspirale Darmstadt
Frankfurt (Germany)

14. REFERENCES
• http://www.hundertwasser.com
• www.slideshare.net/aula20_0708/hundertwasser
• Hundertwasser. Harry Rand. Taschen 25th Anniversary