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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Karl Bitter, Lorenzo Mattielli, Manfred Kielnhofer, Franz Rosei, Kiki Kogelnik, Matthias Steinl, Ambrosius Petruzzy, Bernd Fasching, Joseph Boehm, Balthasar Permoser, Ludwig Michael Schwanthaler, Heinz Goll, Anna Mahler, Mathias Zdarsky, Johann-Georg Bendl, Alfred Hrdlicka, Anton Dominik Fernkorn, Victor Hammer, Peter Strudel, Paul Strudel, Balthasar Ferdinand Moll, Chaim Gross, Matthias Braun, Edwin Grienauer, Josef Moriggl, Otto Beckmann, Othmar Schimkowitz, Josef Thorak, Willi Soukop, Marianne Maderna, Fritz Wotruba, Joseph Knabl, Georg Rafael Donner, Eduard Bitterlich, Joseph Gasser von Valhorn, Philipp Jakob Straub, Ignaz Bendl, Karl Prantl, Roman Strobl, Josef Lorenzl, Bernhard, Arnold, and Florian Abel, Esin Turan, Hans von Judenburg, Nilbar Gures, Franz Xavier Bergman, Ludwig Kasper, Anton Hanak, Joannis Avramidis, Oskar Thiede, Hans Brandstetter, Viktor Oskar Tilgner, Matthaus Donner. Excerpt: Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser (December 15, 1928 - February 19, 2000) was a Austrian painter and architect. Born Friedrich Stowasser in Vienna, he became one of the best-known contemporary Austrian artists, although controversial, by the end of the 20th century. Hundertwasser's father Ernst Stowasser died three months after Hunderwasser's first birthday. The Second World War was a hard time for Hundertwasser and his mother Elsa, as she was Jewish. They avoided persecution by posing as Christians, a credible ruse because Hundertwasser's father had been a Catholic. To remain inconspicuous, Hundertwasser joined the Hitler Youth. Hundertwasser developed artistic skills very early. After the war, he spent three months at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. At this time he began to sign his art as Hundertwasser instead of Stowasser. He left to travel, ...
