Hundertwasser Museum

The Museum Hundertwasser was founded in 1991 by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, one of the most important Austrian artists of the 20th century. It was originally planned and built as a home for Hundertwasser's work and additionally equipped with rooms for international temporary exhibitions.

The unique museum and exhibition house on the Danube Canal continues to follow the philosophical and creative principles of the famous exceptional artist. The entire building is designed in typical Hundertwasser style, with wavy, undulating floors and a notable lack of straight lines. Bright, glaring colors are used throughout with foliage everywhere. To keep the rooms flooded with daylight, Hundertwasser, who was said to be fond of sunlight and therefore windows too, had a glass frontage built in front of the facade.

The facade is decorated with enamel, checkerboard mosaics. In contrast to Gaudi, who adopted a similar style, Hundertwasser used symmetrical mosaic stones, carefully arranged. Likewise, the size of each stone isn’t accidental, which is rare for building mounted mosaics that are built by hand.

HIGHLIGHTS

• A significant part of the effect of Hundertwasser's paintings comes from the colour.
• Hundertwasser uses the color instinctively, without assigning specific colors to specific signs according to any rules, some of which he has set himself. He prefers intense, bright colors and loves to place complementary colors next to each other
• Hundertwasser's work is the use of gilded onion domes, the predominant form for church domes in Russia, Ukraine and Bavaria, and so called because they are shaped like an onion
• Hundertwasserhaus is one of Vienna's main attractions and has become part of Austria's cultural heritage. The shapes and colours of the fantasy-like building prove that it is possible to change the status quo

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