AUSTRIA: Hundertwasser House in Vienna – Austria’s Antoni Gaudi – Modern Abstract Architecture

An architectural, artistic and historical highlight of the city that you should definitely have seen is the Hundertwasserhaus. The “somewhat different” building is a residential complex in Vienna built from 1983 to 1985 and was designed by the different-thinking artist and architect FRIEDRICH STOWASSER aka FRIENDENSREICH HUNDERTWASSER, who lived from 1928 to 2000.

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AUSTRIA: The Universe of Everyday Objects – HNRX

If you find street art murals consisting of comic sausages, bananas or cucumbers, then these food graffitis in pop-up style are most likely made by the fantastic Austrian artist HNRX. In his pieces are often the ordinary things of everyday life which he combines on the motifs in a surreal, funny but also thought-provoking way. However, it is not only limited to fruits, vegetables and food, toothbrushes or dentures are also great on house walls. HNRX is continously developing and reinventing his style. From comic-like poster images to meanwhile detailed and complex abstract murals. Still the preference for everyday objects is a constant theme in his so-called “Deformatyons”.

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