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Friedensreich Hundertwasser - Gedenktafel
Obere Donaustraße 12, Leopoldstadt (1020), Vienna
The record
- Type
- Commemorative plaque (Gedenktafel)
- Material
- Metall
- Plaque made
- 2013
- Epoch
- Nach 1945
- Address
- Obere Donaustraße 12
- District
- Leopoldstadt (1020)
- City
- Vienna (Wien)
- Country
- Austria
- Coordinates
- 48.22464, 16.36941
- Object number
- 95135
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1682 map "Austria Archiducatus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1682 · Austria Archiducatus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1752 · Autriche septentrionale. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1813 · Sect. 161. Theil von Oestreich = Partie d'Autriche (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1837 · I, II, III, IV Sections. Umgebung von Wien. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1877 · Wein. (Nieder-Osterreich) (Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library)
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The City of Vienna's record
Inschrift
Friedensreich Hundertwasser / Maler, Architekturdoktor, ökologischer Aktivist / Painter, Architecture Doctor, Environmental Activist / (1928-2000) /
verbrachte in diesem Haus seine Jugend. 1938 wurden er und seine jüdische Mutter / Elsa Stowasser von Wien-Fünfhaus hierher zwangsübersiedelt. Während Tante und / Großmutter wie auch 69 weitere Familienangehörige von den Nationalsozialisten ermordet / wurden, überlebten Friedrich Stowasser und seine Mutter hier die Kriegsjahre. Die Landschaft / am Donaukanal wurde Hundertwasser zum Motiv seiner ersten Zeichnungen und Aquarelle. / Elsa Stowasser lebte bis zu ihrem Tod im Jahr 1972 in diesem Haus.
spent his youth in this house. In 1938 he and his Jewish mother, Elsa Stowasser / were forced to relocate here from Vienna-Fünfhaus. While his aunt and grandmother / in addition to 69 other family members were murdered in the concentration camps, / Friedrich Stowasser and his mother survived the war years here. The landscape oft he Danube / canal became a motif in Hundertwasser's first drawings and watercolours. Elsa Stowasser lived / in this house until her death in 1972.
English translation
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Inscription
Friedensreich Hundertwasser / Maler, Architekturdoktor, ökologischer Aktivist / Painter, Architecture Doctor, Environmental Activist / (1928-2000) /
spent his youth in this house. In 1938 he and his Jewish mother, Elsa Stowasser, were forcibly relocated here from Vienna-Fünfhaus. While his aunt and grandmother, as well as 69 other family members, were murdered by the National Socialists, Friedrich Stowasser and his mother survived the war years here. The landscape along the Donaukanal became Hundertwasser's motif for his first drawings and watercolours. Elsa Stowasser lived in this house until her death in 1972.
spent his youth in this house. In 1938 he and his Jewish mother, Elsa Stowasser / were forced to relocate here from Vienna-Fünfhaus. While his aunt and grandmother / in addition to 69 other family members were murdered in the concentration camps, / Friedrich Stowasser and his mother survived the war years here. The landscape oft he Danube / canal became a motif in Hundertwasser's first drawings and watercolours. Elsa Stowasser lived / in this house until her death in 1972.
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