Master Hundertwasser
Fountain: Once wildly controversial, now a landmark
More than 30 years ago, the artist erected the fountain in the heart of Zwettl and triggered 1300 signatures against it.
It was often special people who created something extraordinary with their access or talent and have had a lasting influence on entire towns to this day. The renowned artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser, for example, became a Waldviertel native by purchasing an old mill on the Kamp in the 1970s. When he was asked by those responsible in the brewing town of Zwettl to build a fountain in the town center, he agreed.
The municipal council decision followed in 1992. When the design was presented, however, the waters ran high - great approval was met with extreme and vehement rejection.
Today a landmark of Zwettl
In the end - and this was a record in the region at the time - a total of 1,300 people signed against the building, around ten percent of the population. Master Hundertwasser went ahead with the construction of today's landmark anyway, and the 30th anniversary has now been celebrated with a morning pint.
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