Hundertwasser's father Ernst Stowasser died three months after Hundertwasser's first birthday. The Second World War was a hard time for Hundertwasser and his mother Elsa, as she was Jewish. They avoided persecution by posing as Christians, a credible ruse because Hundertwasser's father had been a Catholic.
• His father, a technical engineer who had served in the Austrian military, died during an appendectomy.
In 1943 69 of his maternal relatives were deported and killed in Nazi concentration camps. During the war and the Russian occupation Hundertwasser lived in a Viennese cellar with his mother.
• His mother died in 1972 but I have no other details about it.
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Hundertwasser's father Ernst Stowasser died three months after Hundertwasser's first birthday. The Second World War was a hard time for Hundertwasser and his mother Elsa, as she was Jewish. They avoided persecution by posing as Christians, a credible ruse because Hundertwasser's father had been a Catholic.
• His father, a technical engineer who had served in the Austrian military, died during an appendectomy.
In 1943 69 of his maternal relatives were deported and killed in Nazi concentration camps. During the war and the Russian occupation Hundertwasser lived in a Viennese cellar with his mother.
• His mother died in 1972 but I have no other details about it.
When Did Hundertwasser Die
They probably died in a Nazi concentration camp or some other result of the Holocaust.