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Friedrich Stowasser , better known by his pseudonym Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser, was an Austrian-born New Zealand artist and architect who also worked in the field of environmental protection.

Hundertwasser stood out as an opponent of "a straight line" and any standardization, expressing this concept in the field of building design. His best known work is the Hundertwasserhaus in Vienna, Austria which has become a notable place of interest in the Austrian capital, characterised by imaginative vitality and uniqueness. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. December 1928 – 19. February 2000
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Famous Friedensreich Hundertwasser Quotes

“The straight line is godless and immoral.”

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Mould Manifesto against Rationalism in Architecture (1958)

“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.”

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Mould Manifesto against Rationalism in Architecture (1958)

“There are no evils in Nature, there are only evils of Man.”

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Title of manifesto (May 1990) http://www1.kunsthauswien.com/english/okologie.htm

“We must at last put a stop to having people move into their quarters like chickens and rabbits into their coops.”

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Mould Manifesto against Rationalism in Architecture (1958)

“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.”

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Mould Manifesto against Rationalism in Architecture (1958)

“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.”

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Mould Manifesto against Rationalism in Architecture (1958)

Friedensreich Hundertwasser Quotes

“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”

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Island of Lost Desires (1980)

“This sentence also occurs in Hundertwasser's manifesto "On the Paradise Destroyed by the Straight Line" (1985).”

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Mould Manifesto against Rationalism in Architecture (1958)

“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”

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Island of Lost Desires (1980)

“A person in a rented apartment must be able to lean out of his window and scrape off the masonry within arm's reach. And he must be allowed to take a long brush and paint everything outside within arm's 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.”

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Window Dictatorship and Window Rights (1990) http://www1.kunsthauswien.com/english/fenster.htm

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