Modern Art - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1975 - 4 Shilling

The brand created by Friedensreich Hundertwasser for this series is not a reproduction but a work created especially for this brand. The artist was born as Friedrich Stowasser on December 15, 1928 in Vienna. In 1936, he attended the Montessori School in Vienna, where for the first time his "extraordinary sense of color and form" was certified in a certificate. In the year of his Matura 1948 fall two experiences that should shape his future life. There were two exhibitions in the Albertina, which showed him a new artistic path. The first showed works of the recently deceased German artist Walter Kampmann, a second exhibition took place on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Egon Schiele. It was Kampmann's trees that gave Hundertwasser an impetus for life. He transforms these strongly stylized, transparent spheres into his "life trees", which became for him a symbol of a natural, organic world. Hundertwasser's trees appear as motifs in all variants. Friedensreich Hundertwasser has decisively shaped Austrian cultural life in recent decades.