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Hundertwasserhaus Wien / Vienna. ein Bilderbuch über ein außergewöhnliches Haus = a photo album of a unique house
Bilangual edition: German and English
Nach einer Idee von dem österreichischen Künstler Friedrich Hundertwasser und mit Architekt Josef Krawina, später Peter Pelikan, entstand an der Ecke Kegelgasse/ Löwengasse in Wien das Hundertwasserhaus. Es gibt da ungefähr 50 Wohnungen und einige Geschäfte. Das Gebäude seht ganz farbenreich aus.
Das Buch enthält Information über Hundertwasser, bietet Baugeschichte und Details über Innen- und Aussenseite und zeigt andere Werke von Hundertwasser, wie das Wiener Kunsthaus, eine Mühlverbrennungsanlage in Spittelau und die St. Barbara Kirche in Bärnbach.
Based on an idea by the Austrian artist Friedrich Hundertwasser and with architect Josef Krawina, later on with Peter Pelikan, the Hundertwasser House was built on the corner of Kegelgasse and Löwengasse in Vienna. There are about 50 apartments and a few shops. The building is very colourful.
The book contains information about Hundertwasser, offers building history and details about the inside and outside and shows other works by Hundertwasser, such as the Vienna Kunsthaus, a mill incineration plant in Spittelau and the St. Barbara Church in Bärnbach.
Nach einer Idee von dem österreichischen Künstler Friedrich Hundertwasser und mit Architekt Josef Krawina, später Peter Pelikan, entstand an der Ecke Kegelgasse/ Löwengasse in Wien das Hundertwasserhaus. Es gibt da ungefähr 50 Wohnungen und einige Geschäfte. Das Gebäude seht ganz farbenreich aus.
Das Buch enthält Information über Hundertwasser, bietet Baugeschichte und Details über Innen- und Aussenseite und zeigt andere Werke von Hundertwasser, wie das Wiener Kunsthaus, eine Mühlverbrennungsanlage in Spittelau und die St. Barbara Kirche in Bärnbach.
Based on an idea by the Austrian artist Friedrich Hundertwasser and with architect Josef Krawina, later on with Peter Pelikan, the Hundertwasser House was built on the corner of Kegelgasse and Löwengasse in Vienna. There are about 50 apartments and a few shops. The building is very colourful.
The book contains information about Hundertwasser, offers building history and details about the inside and outside and shows other works by Hundertwasser, such as the Vienna Kunsthaus, a mill incineration plant in Spittelau and the St. Barbara Church in Bärnbach.
95 pages, Perfect Paperback
Published January 1, 2000
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March 25, 2024
Friedensreich Hundertwasser was a sort of environmental activist, through his art, from the early 1970s on. His aim was an architecture that was in harmony with nature and man. This eventually led to the realization of the Hundertwasserhaus in the centre of Vienna. As special and colourful as it looks, it attracts many tourists (like me, by the end of the 1980s). Okay, it might remind you of Gaudi, But Hundertwasser gave his concepts his own touch. In one of his manifesto’s Hundertwasser’s goal was ‘die Verwaldung der Stadt’, ‘let’s green Wien’. When you will have a look at the corner of Kegelgasse and Löwengasse now, you will see an big apartment building packed in many trees and other plants, like on the cover of this book. Another feature of the building is the freedom that the craftsmen, especially the tilers, were given to make mosaic-like decorations according to their own wishes. In the toilet of the visitor center, the tiler has incorporated his first name into the wall. The inhabitants are tenants, the landlord is the city of Vienna. It is a nice and peculiar anachronism to see a fiaker in the low right corner of the cover. JM
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