More Vienna- Hunder­t­wasser

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Also on my to-do list was the Hunder­t­wasser museum. If you’re not famil­i­ar with him he was an Austri­an paint­er, archi­tect, graph­ic design­er, envir­on­ment­al­ist and all round inter­est­ing eccent­ric.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedensreich_Hundertwasser

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Here’s the outside of the museum

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And the inside. All the lines of the build­ing are roun­ded and organ­ic.

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The roof is covered with plants, as per Hundertwasser’s philo­sophy of archi­tec­ture.

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Inside there was a perman­ent exhib­i­tion of Hundertwasser’s work, and a tempor­ary exhib­i­tion of the photographer/​revolutionary Tina Modotti

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_modotti

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Right after I took this picture, a *very* snotty gallery assist­ant dressed in expens­ive black came and told me off for taking pictures. Then she told a little boy off for talk­ing. I don’t think good old cranky rebel­li­ous nudist Friedrich would’ve taken very well to that some­how. The staff in gener­al were a bit rude and unfriendly, except for the coat check lady who was lovely. So no more pictures.

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Oh actu­ally you’re allowed to take pictures of the stair­well for some reas­on.

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Next I went to see a block of flats in a neigh­bour­ing street that Hunder­t­wasser had designed. I was most amused to see a little shop­ping centre next door selling almost noth­ing but crappy souven­iers of his paint­ings.

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There’s a cafe upstairs, and trees on the roof.

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Lots of trees all around, too.

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I think the side of the build­ing with the mosa­ic squares looks nicer than the painted side, because it’s not so obvi­ous when it fades.

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3 comments

  1. yeah before i went in there they told me i could­nt take photos. which is why on my vienna post there is none inside. i prob could have tried to sneak but im such a good girl haha.

    i love these photos. so beau­ti­ful. you are a talen­ted photo­graph­er. i wish my photos were as pretty as yours!

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