Fav Artist Fridays!

This is the first in a series of weekly posts about great artists, past, present and future! Some you might recognize, while others may be brand new to you. I thought I'd start with an artist I love and who has inspired a lesson or two in my classroom:  Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser. That name is quite a mouthful, isn't it?!



Friedensreich Hundertwasser
(December 15, 1928 – February 19, 2000)

Mr. Hundertwasser was actually born Friedrich Stowasser on December 15, 1928 in Vienna, Austria. His father died when he was only a year old. Both Jewish, he and his mother were forced to hide from the Nazis during World War II. Luckily for us, Friedensreich survived the war and became one of the most exciting contemporary artists in Austria!

City View



Good Morning City

Irinaland over the Balkans

Exodus in Space

Mr. Hundertwasser was so talented that he also designed coins and stamps for Austria, Senegal and the UN in the 1970s and even became an architect! His buildings look a lot like his artwork.

Click here for more information and a catalogue of his other works.