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WELLINGTON—Austrian artist and architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser's final gift to New Zealand will likely be a fantastical, brightly colored turreted building to house an art gallery. Seventeen ...

Austrian Artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser is pictured in Cologne. The town of Lindau wants to open a Hundertwasser Forum on Lake Constance, where various exhibitions of Hundertwasser's works will be ...

In his introduction, Mars notes that it is far easier to make buildings out of straight lines than it is to make curvilinear surfaces. Orthogonal buildings are by far the most common geometry in the ...

Friedensreich Hundertwasser's lifelong odyssey took him from Austria to art and building projects around the world to a grave under a tulip tree in New Zealand. But the tangled saga of a mural he ...

Next year will mark thirty years since the construction of artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser’s iconic Hundertwasserhaus in the Kegelgasse district of Vienna, Austria. Hundertwasser’s fantastical ...

Friedensreich Hundertwasser would have no doubt approved. Austria has made its "first green museum" - entirely dedicated to the work of the maverick artist and ecological trailblazer - even greener.

The future of Friedensreich Hundertwasser's last unbuilt work -- a proposed Art Center for Whangarei, New Zealand-- hangs in the balance and will be decided next week by a referendum. The center, ...

Egon Schiele saw himself as a visionary and prophetic artist, František Kupka forged an abstract style of painting infused with spiritist principles, Joseph Beuys called under the rubric “social ...