Hundertwasser's 30 year love affair with Aotearoa

Friedensreich Hundertwasser was an artist, architect, environmentalist and intellectual, born in Vienna but for whom New Zealand was home for 30 years. He is best known for the unique public toilets in Kawakawa, and now the Hundertwasser Art Centre in Whangarei - opened 22 years after his death. Hundertwasser called New Zealand "the promised land" and his deams began early, when his mother would tell him stories as they hid from the Nazis in Second World War Vienna. A new book on Hundertwasser's life and work has just been released - written by Austrian artist, historian and curator Andreas Hirsh. The book was initiated by the Hundertwasser Foundation in Vienna in collaboration with the Hundertwasser Art Centre in Whangarei.