Gottfried Helnwein, "Beautiful Victim", watercolor, 1974

Gottfried Helnwein (born October 8, 1948 in Vienna) is an Austrian-Irish fine artist, photographer, installation and performance artist. Image File history File links Gottfried Helnwein Beautiful Victim I, 1974, watercolor on cardboard, 53,5cm x 73cm File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Gottfried Helnwein Beautiful Victim I, 1974, watercolor on cardboard, 53,5cm x 73cm File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... October 8 is the 281st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (282nd in leap years). ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... “Wien” redirects here. ...

Work

Helnwein studied at the University of Visual Art in Vienna (German: Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Wien). He was awarded the Master-class prize (Meisterschulpreis) of the University of Visual Art, Vienna, the Kardinal-König prize and the Theodor-Körner prize. The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (German: Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien) is an institution of higher education in Vienna, Austria. ... Wien is the German language name for Vienna, the city and federal state in Austria. ...

He has worked as a painter, draftsman, photographer, muralist, sculptor, installation- and performance artist, using a wide variety of techniques and media.

His early work consists mainly of hyper-realistic watercolors, depicting wounded children, as well as performances - often with children - in public spaces. Helnwein is concerned primarily with psychological and sociological anxiety, historical issues and political topics. As a result of this, his work is often considered provocative and controversial. Hyperrealism is a genre of painting and sculpture resembling a high resolution digital photograph. ... Watercolor is a painting technique making use of water-soluble pigments that are either transparent or opaque and are formulated with gum to bond the pigment to the paper. ...

Viennese-born Helnwein is part of a tradition going back to the 18th century, to which Messerschmidt's grimacing sculptures belong. One sees, too, the common ground of his works with those of Hermann Nitsch and Rudolf Schwarzkogler, two other Viennese, who display their own bodies in the frame of reference of injury, pain, and death. One can also see this fascination for body language goes back to the expressive gesture in the work of Egon Schiele.^[1] The Viennese language is an East Central Austro-Bavarian dialect spoken mostly in the Austrian capital of Vienna. ... Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736 - 1783) was an Austrian sculptor most famous for his character heads, a collection of busts of faces contorted in extreme facial expressions. ... Hermann Nitsch (b. ... Rudolf Schwarzkogler (13 November 1940 in Vienna – 20 June 1969) was an Austrian performance artist closely associated with the Viennese Actionism group that also included artists Günter Brus, Otto Mühl, and Hermann Nitsch. ... Photograph by Anton Josef Trčka Egon Schiele (June 12, 1890 – October 31, 1918) (pronounced approximately SHEE-luh) was an Austrian painter, a protege of Gustav Klimt, and a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. ...

The Child

State Russian Museum St. Petersburg, Helnwein's "Head of a Child" ("Kindskopf", 1991, oil and acrylic on canvas, 600 x 400 cm), being installed in the retrospective of Gottfried Helnwein, 1997, (Collection of the Sate Russian Museum St. Petersburg).

A clarity of vision in his subject matter was emerging in Helnwein's art that was to stay consistent throughout his career. His subject matter is the human condition. The metaphor for his art, although it included self-portraits, is dominated by the image of the child, but not the carefree innocent child of popular imagination. Helnwein instead created the profoundly disturbing yet compellingly provocative image of the wounded child. The child scarred physically and the child scarred emotionally from within.^[2] Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 536 pixel Image in higher resolution (950 × 637 pixel, file size: 388 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 536 pixel Image in higher resolution (950 × 637 pixel, file size: 388 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Russian Museum - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ...

In 2004 The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco organized the first one-person exhibition of Gottfried Helnwein at an American Museum: "The Child, works by Gottfried Helnwein" at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor.^[3] The show was seen by almost 130,000 visitors and the San Francisco Chronicle quoted it the most important exhibition of a contemporary artist in 2004. Steven Winn, Chronicle Arts and Culture Critic, wrote: "Helnwein's large format, photo-realist images of children of various demeanors boldly probed the subconscious. Innocence, sexuality, victimization and haunting self-possession surge and flicker in Helnwein's unnerving work".^[4] The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, comprising the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum in Golden Gate Park and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park is the largest public arts institution in the city of San Francisco and one of the largest art museums... Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California. ... Todays San Francisco Chronicle was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young. ...

Harry S.Parker III, Director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco explained what makes Helnwein’s art significant: "For Helnwein, the child is the symbol of innocence, but also of innocence betrayed. In today’s world, the malevolent forces of war, poverty, and sexual exploitation and the numbing, predatory influence of modern media assault the virtue of children. Robert Flynn Johnson, the curator in charge, has assembled a thought-provoking selection of Helnwein’s works and provided an insightful essay on his art. Helnwein’s work concerning the child includes paintings, drawings, and photographs, and it ranges from subtle inscrutability to scenes of stark brutality. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, comprising the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum in Golden Gate Park and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park is the largest public arts institution in the city of San Francisco and one of the largest art museums...

Of course, brutal scenes—witness The Massacre of the Innocents—have been important and regularly visited motifs in the history of art. What makes Helnwein’s art significant is its ability to make us reflect emotionally and intellectually on the very expressive subjects he chooses. Many people feel that museums should be a refuge in which to experience quiet beauty divorced from the coarseness of the world. This notion sells short the purposes of art, the function of museums, and the intellectual curiosity of the public.

The Child: Works by Gottfried Helnwein will inspire and enlighten many; it is also sure to upset some. It is not only the right but the responsibility of the museum to present art that deals with important and sometimes controversial topics in our society".^[5]

Comics and Trivial Art

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), 2000, Gottfried Helnwein's "Mouse I" (1995, oil and acrylic on canvas, 210 x 310 cm) in the exhibition "The Darker Side of Playland - Childhood Imagery from the Logan Collection".

Another strong element in his work are comics. Helnwein has sensed the superiority of cartoon life over real life ever since he was a child. A biographical story, explains his obsession with Disney characters. Growing up in dreary, destructed post-war Vienna, the young boy was surrounded by unsmiling people haunted by a recent past they could never speak about. What changed his life was the first German-language Donald Duck comic book that his father brought home one day. Opening the book felt like finally arriving in a world where he belonged:
"...a decent world where one could get flattened by steam-rollers and perforated by bullets without serious harm. A world in which the people still looked proper, with yellow beaks or black knobs instead of noses." (Helnwein^[6])^[7] Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a museum in San Francisco, California dedicated to modern art. ... Comics (or, less commonly, sequential art) is a form of visual art consisting of images which are commonly combined with text, often in the form of speech balloons or image captions. ... A cartoon is any of several forms of illustrations with varied meanings that evolved from its original meaning. ... Disney may refer to: The Walt Disney Company and its divisions, including Walt Disney Pictures. ... “Wien” redirects here. ... Donald Duck is an animated cartoon and comic-book character from Walt Disney Productions. ...

In 2000 the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art presented Helnwein's painting "Mouse I" (1995, oil and acrylic on canvas, 210 cm x 310 cm) at the exhibition The Darker Side of Playland: Childhood Imagery from the Logan Collection.
Alicia Miller commented on Helnwein's work in Artweek: "In 'The Darker Side of Playland', the endearing cuteness of beloved toys and cartoon characters turns menacing and monstrous. Much of the work has the quality of childhood nightmares. In those dreams, long before any adult understanding of the specific pains and evils that live holds, the familiar and comforting objects and images of a child's world are rent with something untoward. For children, not understanding what really to be afraid of, these dreams portend some pain and disturbance lurking into the landscape. Perhaps nothing in the exhibition exemplifies this better than Gottfried Helnwein's 'Mickey'. His portrait of Disney's favorite mouse occupies an entire wall of the gallery; rendered from an oblique angle, his jaunty, ingenuous visage looks somehow sneaky and suspicious. His broad smile, encasing a row of gleaming teeth, seems more a snarl or leer. This is Mickey as Mr. Hyde, his hidden other self now disturbingly revealed. Helnwein's Mickey is painted in shades of gray, as if pictured on an old black-and-white TV set. We are meant to be transported to the flickering edges of our own childhood memories in a time imaginably more blameless, crime-less and guiltless. But Mickey's terrifying demeanor hints of things to come..."^[8]. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2004). ... Mickey Mouse is an Academy Award-winning comic animal cartoon character who has become an icon for The Walt Disney Company. ... The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll1and Mr. ...

Although Helnwein's work is rooted in the legacy of German expressionism, he has absorbed elements of American pop culture. In the 70s he began to include cartoon characters in his paintings. In several interviews he claimed: "I learned more from Donald Duck than from all the schools that I have ever attended." Commenting on that aspect in Helnwein's work, Julia Pascal wrote in the New Statesman: "His early watercolor Peinlich (Embarrassing)^[9]- shows a typical little 1950s girl in a pink dress and carrying a comic book. Her innocent appeal is destroyed by the gash deforming her cheek and lips. It is as if Donald Duck had met Mengele".^[10] This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Popular culture, or pop culture, is the vernacular (peoples) culture that prevails in a modern society. ... Donald Duck is an animated cartoon and comic-book character from Walt Disney Productions. ... The New Statesman is a left-of-centre political weekly published in London. ... Josef Mengele Dr. Josef Mengele (March 16, 1911–February 7, 1979) was a Nazi doctor who performed experiments that were condemned as murderously sadistic on prisoners in Auschwitz. ...

Living between Los Angeles and Ireland. Helnwein met and photographed the Rolling Stones in London, and his portrait of John F Kennedy made the front cover of Time magazine on the 20th anniversary of the president's assassination.^[11] His Self-portrait as screaming bandaged man, blinded by forks (1982) became the cover of the Scorpions album Blackout. Andy Warhol, Muhammad Ali, William Burroughs^[12]and the German industrial metal band Rammstein^[13] posed for him; some of his art-works appeared in the cover-booklet of Michael Jackson's History album. Referring to the fall of the Berlin Wall Helnwein created the book Some Facts about Myself, together with Marlene Dietrich.^[14] In 2003 he became friends with Marilyn Manson^[15] and started a collaboration with him on the multi-media art-project The Golden Age of Grotesque and on several experimental video-projects. Among his widely published works is a spoof of the famous Edward Hopper painting Nighthawks, entitled Boulevard of Broken Dreams. This painting also inspired the Green Day song of the same name^[16] This article is about the rock band. ... JFK redirects here. ... (Clockwise from upper left) Time magazine covers from May 7, 1945; July 25, 1969; December 31, 1999; September 14, 2001; and April 21, 2003. ... A scorpion is an invertebrate animal with eight legs belonging to the order Scorpiones in the class Arachnida. ... The term blackout in peacetime refers to a cessation of electrical energy through electric power transmission systems. ... Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 — February 22, 1987) was an American artist who became a central figure in the movement known as pop art. ... “Cassius Clay” redirects here. ... William S. Burroughs. ... Industrial metal is a musical genre which draws elements from industrial music and heavy metal music. ... Rammstein, IPA: Rahm-shtine , is a German band that incorporates elements of hard rock, industrial metal, and electronic music. ... Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958), commonly known as MJ as well as the King of Pop, is an American musician, entertainer, and pop icon whose successful career and controversial personal life have been a part of pop culture for the last three decades. ... HIStory - Past, Present and Future, Book I is a double-disc album (one half greatest hits, one half studio album) by American musician Michael Jackson released in June of 1995 by the Epic Records division of Sony BMG. The first disc, (HIStory Begins) contains fifteen hit singles from the past... East German construction workers building the Berlin Wall, November 20, 1961. ... Marlene Dietrich IPA: ; (December 27, 1901 – May 6, 1992) was a German-born actress, singer, and entertainer. ... Brian Hugh Warner (born January 5 in Canton (Ohio), 1969), better known by his stage name Marilyn Manson, is an American musician and artist known for his outrageous stage persona and image as the lead singer of the band that bears the same name. ... The Golden Age of Grotesque is the fifth full length album by Marilyn Manson released in 2003. ... Nighthawks. ... Boulevard of Broken Dreams may refer to: A song: Boulevard of Broken Dreams (song), an Al Dubin/Harry Warren song from the 1934 film Moulin Rouge. ... Green Day is an American rock band band comprising three core members: Billie Joe Armstrong (guitar, lead vocals), Mike Dirnt (bass, backing vocals) and Tré Cool (drums). ... American Idiot track listing Holiday (3) Boulevard of Broken Dreams (4) Are We the Waiting (5) Boulevard of Broken Dreams was the second single from Green Days seventh studio album, American Idiot. ...

Examining his imagery from the 1970s to the present, one sees influences as diverse as Bosch, Goya, John Heartfield, Beuys and Mickey Mouse, all filtered through a postwar Viennese childhood.^[17] Bosch is the colloquial short name for the German company Robert Bosch GmbH, as well as the last name of: Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) - Dutch painter Robert Bosch (1861-1942) - German industrialist Carl Bosch (1874-1940) - German chemist and engineer Juan Bosch (1909-2001) - Dominican politician and writer Orlando Bosch... This article is about Francisco Goya, a Spanish painter. ... Self-portrait, 1920 Translation: Der Sinn des Hitlergrusses The real meaning of the Hitler salute Kleiner Mann bittet um grosse Gaben The little man asks for big gifts Millionen stehen hinter mir! Ive got millions standing behind me John Heartfield (June 19, 1891 - April 26, 1968) is the anglicized... Missing image Beuys, picture by Andy Warhol Joseph Beuys (May 12, 1921 – January 23, 1986) was a German artist who produced work in a number of forms including sculpture, performance art, video art and installations. ... Mickey Mouse is an Academy Award-winning comic animal cartoon character who has become an icon for The Walt Disney Company. ...

"God of the Sub-humans" (detail, self-portrait, right panel of the Triptych), Gottfried Helnwein, 1986, Photography, Oil and Acrylic on Canvas, Collection Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren

'Helnwein’s oeuvre embraces total antipodes: The trivial alternates with visions of spiritual doom, the divine in the child contrasts with horror-images of child-abuse. But violence remains to be his basic theme, - the physical and the emotional suffering, inflicted by one human being unto another.'^[18]. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Look up trivia on Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Self-Portraits

The self-portrait for the artist's blindfolded unbent head covered with blood occurs twice in Helnwein's triptych The Silent Glow of the Avantgarde (1986). The middle panel shows an enlarged reproduction of Caspar David Friedrich's The sea of Ice, a depiction of a catastrophe of 1823/24 which is generally interpreted as a romantic allegory of the force of nature overpowering all human effort . Helnwein compared the "quietly theatrical" ecstatic attitude of his self-portrait with the heroic pose of the figure of the suffering figure of Sebastian and generalizes both to the stigma of the artist in the 20th century, making him a kind of saviour figure. In addition, its poetic title sets the viewer onto the right track. The visual montage of the modern artist as Man of Sorrows with Friedrich's landscape painting projects the dashed hopes of the romantic rebellion into the present, to the protest thinking of modernity, which has become introverted and masochistic, and its crossing of aesthetic boundaries. Is romanticism making a comeback? - No; actually, it had never left modernity. But its rebellion is confining and introverting itself in the "body metaphysics" of contemporary artists to its own flesh and blood. Thus, the comeback of romanticism leads for Helnwein, too, to stressing just one of its partial aspects, the stylizing in the form of a self-portrait of a protest introverted to martyrdom which historically was once linked in a contradictory way with social opposition, rebellion, and utopia.^[19]. Self-portrait in chalk, 1810 by fellow artist Georg Friedrich Kersting, 1812 Caspar David Friedrich (September 5, 1774 – May 7, 1840) was a 19th century German romantic painter, considered by many critics to be one of the finest representatives of the movement. ... Allegory of Music by Filippino Lippi. ... For other uses, see Sebastian (disambiguation). ... Wanderer above the sea of fog by Caspar David Friedrich Romanticism is an artistic, literary and intellectual movement that originated in 18th century Western Europe during the Industrial Revolution. ... Historically, a martyr is a person who dies for his or her religious faith. ...

References to the Holocaust

Gottfried Helnwein, "Epiphany I (Adoration of the Magi)", mixed media on canvas, 1996

Mitchell Waxman wrote 2004, in The Jewish Journal, Los Angeles: "The most powerful images that deal with Nazism and Holocaust themes are by Anselm Kiefer and Helnwein, although, Kiefer’s work differs considerably from Helnwein’s in his concern with the effect of German aggression on the national psyche and the complexities of German cultural heritage. Kiefer is known for evocative and soulful images of barren German landscapes. But Kiefer and Helnwein’s work are both informed by the personal experience of growing up in a post-war German speaking country... William Burroughs said that the American revolution begins in books and music, and political operatives implement the changes after the fact. To this maybe we can add art. And Helnwein's art might have the capacity to instigate change by piercing the veil of political correctness to recapture the primitive gesture inherent in art."^[20]. Image File history File links Gottfried Helnwein Epiphany I (Adoration of the Magi), 1996, 210cm x 333cm, mixed media on canvas (oil and acrylic) The Kent and Vicki Logan Collection, Denver Art Museums Modern and Cpontemporary Art department File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete... Image File history File links Gottfried Helnwein Epiphany I (Adoration of the Magi), 1996, 210cm x 333cm, mixed media on canvas (oil and acrylic) The Kent and Vicki Logan Collection, Denver Art Museums Modern and Cpontemporary Art department File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete... The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles is a community non-profit weekly newspaper serving the Jewish community of Greater Los Angeles. ... For other uses, see Holocaust (disambiguation) and Shoah (disambiguation). ... This article should be translated from material at de:Anselm Kiefer. ... William S. Burroughs. ...

Of all of Helnwein's paintings, one of the most famous is Epiphany I (1996). This Austrian Catholic Nativity scene has no magi bearing gifts. Madonna and child are encircled by five respectful Waffen SS officers palpably in awe of the idealised, blonde Virgin. The Christ toddler, who stands on Mary's lap, stares defiantly out of the canvas. Helnwein's baby Jesus is often considered to represent Adolf Hitler.^[21]. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... SS or ss or Ss may be: The Schutzstaffel, a Nazi paramilitary force Steamship (SS) (ship prefix) The United States Secret Service A submarine not powered by nuclear energy (SS) (United States Navy designator), see SSN A Soviet/Russian surface-to-surface missile, as listed by NATO reporting name Shortstop... Topics in Christianity Movements · Denominations Ecumenism · Preaching · Prayer Music · Liturgy · Calendar Symbols · Art · Criticism Important figures Apostle Paul · Church Fathers Constantine · Athanasius · Augustine Anselm · Aquinas · Palamas · Wycliffe Tyndale · Luther · Calvin · Wesley Arius · Marcion of Sinope Pope · Archbishop of Canterbury Patriarch of Constantinople Christianity Portal This box:      Christ is the English... This article is about Jesus of Nazareth. ... Hitler redirects here. ...

Works for the Stage

Helnwein is also known for his stage and costume designs for theater, ballet and opera productions. Amongst them: "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare, (director, choreographer: Johann Kresnik) , Theater Heidelberg, 1988, Volksbühne Berlin, 1995; "The Persecution and Murder of Jean Paul Marat, Performed by the Drama Group of the Hospice at Charenton, under Direction of Monsieur de Sade" by Peter Weiss, (director: Johann Kresnik), Stuttgart National Theatre, 1989; "Pasolini, Testament des Körpers", (director: Johann Kresnik), Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, 1996; "Hamletmaschine" by Heiner Müller, (director: Gert Hof), 47. 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Chronology

• 1965 - 1969 Helnwein studied at the Vienna Higher College for Graphic Art (Höhere Grafische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt, Wien).
• 1969 - 1973 he studied at the University of Visual Art in Vienna (Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Wien).

• At that time he begann to work on a series of hyper-realistic watercolour-paintings of bandaged and wounded children.

• 1971 First public Aktions in the streets of Vienna, often with bandaged children (Aktion Sorgenkind, Aktion Hallo Dulder, Aktion Eternal Youth, Aktion Sandra).^[23]

• In the exhibition "Zoetus" at the Kunsthalle "Künstlerhaus" in Vienna unidentified people put stickers with the words "Entartete Kunst" (degenerate art) on Helnwein's paintings.

• At the opening of an one man show at Galerie D. in Moedling, near Vienna, the Major has Helnwein's Artworks confiscated by the police.

• 1972 An exhibition at the "Galerie im Pressehaus" (Gallery of the House of the Press) is closed after 3 days because of strong protests and threats by the works council.

• 1979 Spurred into action by an interview in an Austrian tabloid in which the country's top court psychiatrist, Dr Heinrich Gross, admitted killing children at Vienna's Am Spiegelgrund Paediatric Unit during the war by poisoning their food, Helnwein painted Life not Worth Living - a watercolour of a little girl "asleep" on the table, her head in her plate. The painting was published in Austrias leading newsmagazine Profil and sparked a nationwide debate that finally led to Gross' appearing before a Vienna court . The judge ruled Gross was mentally unfit to be tried.^[24]

• 1982 Helnwein was offered a chair by the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg, which he declined.

• 1983 Helnwein met Andy Warhol in his factory in New York, who posed for a series of photo-sessions.

• 1984 German and Austrian National Television co-produced the film "Helnwein", directed by Peter Hajek. In Los Angeles Helnwein meets Muhammad Ali, who appeared in his film. The film was awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize for best television-documentary and in the same year won the Eduard Rhein Prize and the Golden Kader of the city of Vienna for outstanding camera work.^[25]

• 1985 one man show at the Albertina, Vienna.

• Rudolf Hausner, recommended Helnwein as his successor as professor of the master-class for painting at the University of Visual Art in Vienna, but Helnwein left Vienna and moved to Germany. He bought a medieval castle close to Cologne and the Rhine-river, where he lived and worked till 1997.

• Besides his realistic work, Helnwein also began to develop abstract, expressive styles of painting during this period. He radically changes his way of working and now begins a series of large-format pictures consisting of several parts (diptychs, triptychs, poliptychs). In doing so he combines photomurals with abstract gestural and monochrome painting in oil and acrylic, also using reproductions of Caspar David Friedrich paintings and war documentary photographs which he assembles to form what Viennese art-critic Peter Gorsen calls "Bilderstrassen" (picture lanes).

• 1987 Der Untermensch, Gottfried Helnwein, self-portraits of from 1970 - 1987, one man show at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Strasbourg.

• Aktion Gott der Untermenschen (God of Sub-Humans), Performance at Camp Kopal, St. Pölten of the Austrian Army, using tanks and ammunition^[26]

Gottfried Helnwein, "Ninth November Night", Installation between Ludwig Museum Cologne and the Cologne Cathedral, 375 x 1000 cm, Scanachrome on Vinyl, 1988.

• 1988, In remembrance of "Kristallnacht"[36], the actual beginning of the Holocaust - 50 years earlier, Helnwein erected a 100 meter long installation in the city center of Cologne, between Ludwig Museum and the Cologne Cathedral. Just days into the exhibit, these portraits were vandalized by unknown persons, symbolically cutting the throats of the depicted children's faces.^[27][28] Since then large scale installations in public spaces became an important part of his work.

• 1989 One-man show at the Folkwang Museum in Essen.

• Torino Fotografia 1989, Biennale Internationale, Gottfried Helnwein, David Hockney, Clegg and Guttmann.

• 1989 Helnwein's photographic work from 1970 to 1989 was published in a monograph by Dai Nipon in Japan. Text by Toshiharu Ito.

• Helnwein met William S. Burroughs in Lawrence, Kansas.

• Cooperation with German poet and playwright Heiner Müller and choreographer Hans Kresnik on a play about Antonin Artaud.

• 1990 One-man show in the Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne. Installation "Neunter November Nacht".

• 1990 Collaboration with Marlene Dietrich on the book Some Facts about Myself, for the occasion of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Her essay that gave the book it's title was the last text that Marlene Dietrich wrote in her life^[29].

• 1991 Installation Kindskopf (Child's Head) in the Minoriten Church in Krems, Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum (Museum of Lower Austria). Helnwein painted a 6x4 m (18x12 feet) child's head for the apse of the early Gothic basilica.

• Helnwein finished 48 Portraits, a series of 48 monochrome red pictures of women (oil on canvas) as a counterpart to Gerhard Richter's "48 Portraits" of 1971, which depict only men in monochrome grey. The cycle of paintings was first shown at Galerie Koppelmann in Cologne, and later acquired by collector Peter Ludwig for the Collection of the Ludwig Museum in Cologne.

• Helnwein began to focus on digital photography and computer-generated images which he often combines with classical oil-painting techniques.

• 1993 One-man show at Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn.

• Aktion-Reaktion, exhibition of the Austrian painters Arnulf Rainer, Hermann Nitsch, Günter Brus, and Helnwein, works from the Schömer collection, at the Foundation Fiecht, Austria.

• 1994 Stage design, costumes, and make-up for Macbeth, a production of Hans Kresnik's Choreographic Theatre at Volksbühne Berlin [37]. The play was awarded the Theatre Prize of Berlin.

• Helnwein curated and organized the first Museum-exhibition of Disney-artist Carl Barks, the creator of the Donald Duck universe, Uncle Scrooge and Duckburg. The retrospective was shown in 10 European Museums and seen by more than 400 000 visitors.^[30]

• 1997 Moved to Ireland[38].

• In the same year the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg organized a Helnwein retrospective and publishes a monograph of the artist[39].

• German collectors Peter and Irene Ludwig donated 53 works of Helnwein to the collection of the State Russian Museum Saint Petersburg.

• Photo-session with the German industrial metal band Rammstein. Their album "Sehnsucht (album)" is released with six different covers by Gottfried Helnwein.^[31].

• 2000 The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art shows Helnwein's Mickey I, (1995, oil and acrylic on canvas, 83" x 122") in the exhibition The Darker Side of Playland: Childhood Imagery from the Logan Collection.^[32]

• Helnwein's Black Mirror, (Self-Portrait, polaroid, 1987) in the show Ghost in the Shell at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

• 2001 Stage and costume design for the Hamburgische Staatsoper of Igor Stravinsky’s opera The Rake's Progress[40].

• 2002 Helnwein established a studio in Los Angeles.

• 2003 Premiere of the Helnwein documentary Ninth November Night, the Art of Gottfried Helnwein at the Museum of Tolerance, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles. Director: Henning Lohner, Commentators: Sean Penn, Maximilian Schell, Jason Lee, Introductory text by Simon Wiesenthal. (Camera: Jason Lee, Darren Rydstrom, Bernd Reinhardt)[41].

"The Golden Age of Grotesque", (Marilyn Manson), photographs by Gottfried Helnwein, 2003

• Collaboration with Marilyn Manson on the multi-media project "The Golden Age of Grotesque"[42] and video productions like Doppelherz und mOBSCENE.

• Installation and performance with Manson at the Volksbühne Berlin.[43]

• Collaboration with Sean Penn on the Music Video 'The Barry Williams Show' by Peter Gabriel [44]

• 2004 The Child, Works by Gottfried Helnwein, one-man show at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco Fine Arts Museums.^[33] The exhibition is seen by 130,000 visitors. The San Francisco Chronicle calls the exhibition the most important show of a contemporary artist in 2004.^[34]

• Collaboration with Maximilian Schell for the Richard Strauss opera "Der Rosenkavalier[45]” at Los Angeles Opera,^[35] and Israeli Opera Tel Aviv.

• Helnwein receives Irish citizenship.

• 2005 Marilyn Manson marries Dita von Teese at Helnwein's castle in Tipperary, Ireland.Helnwein is best man.^[36]

• Helnwein retrospective at the National Art Museum in Beijing.

• 2006 "Face it", one man show, Lentos Museum of Modern Art Linz[46]

• The council of the city of Philadelphia honors Gottfried Helnwein for his artistic contributions in keeping the memory of the Holocaust alive^[37]

• 2007 The Virtual Museum of Art at Second Life^[38] opened with a Helnwein retrospective. The VMOA is the first virtual Museum that is dedicated to the lifework of a living artist^[39].

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Personal life

Helnwein has four Children with his wife Renate: Cyril, Mercedes, Ali Elvis and Wolfgang Amadeus, who are all artists. He moved to Dublin, Ireland in 1997. In 1998 he bought a castle in County Tipperary where he now lives with his family.^[40] In 2004 Helnwein received Irish citizenship^[41] Helnwein has worked closely with the Church of Scientology's OSA and Narconon organizations.^[42] In December 2005 Marilyn Manson married Dita von Teese at Helnwein's castle in Tipperary, Ireland. Helnwein was best man.^[43] WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: , Statistics Province: Leinster County: Dáil Éireann: Dublin Central, Dublin North Central, Dublin North East, Dublin North West, Dublin South Central, Dublin South East European Parliament: Dublin Dialling Code: 01, +353 1 Postal District(s): D1-24, D6W Area: 114. ... Year 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... Statistics Province: Munster County Town: North: Nenagh South: Clonmel Code: North: TN South: TS Area: 4,303 km² Population (2006) 149,040[[1]] County Tipperary (Contae Thiobraid Árann in Irish) is a county in the Republic of Ireland, and situated in the province of Munster. ... shelby was here 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Scientology cross Symbol Doctrine Practices Concepts People Public groups Organization Controversy The Church of Scientology is the largest organisation devoted to the practice and the promotion of the Scientology belief system. ... The Office of Special Affairs (OSA) is a department of the Church of Scientology responsible for directing legal affairs, publicizing the Churchs social betterment works, and oversee[ing its] social reform programs. Observers outside the Church have characterized the department as an intelligence agency, comparing it variously to the... Narconon is not associated with Narcotics Anonymous, which is sometimes abbreviated Narcanon. Scientologys Narconon is an in-patient rehabilitation program for drug abusers in several dozen treatment centers worldwide, chiefly in the United States and western Europe. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Brian Hugh Warner (born January 5 in Canton (Ohio), 1969), better known by his stage name Marilyn Manson, is an American musician and artist known for his outrageous stage persona and image as the lead singer of the band that bears the same name. ... Dita Von Teese (born Heather Renée Sweet on September 28, 1972) is a popular American burlesque artist, model and actress. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 52. ...

Quotes

William Burroughs said of Helnwein: William S. Burroughs. ...

"It is the function of the artist to evoke the experience of surprised recognition: to show the viewer what he knows but does not know that he knows. Helnwein is a master of surprised recognition." [47]

Helnwein is one of the few exciting painters we have today.
Norman Mailer Norman Mailer, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1948 Norman Kingsley Mailer (born January 31, 1923) is an American novelist, journalist, playwright, screenwriter and film director. ...

Well, the world is a haunted house, and Helnwein at times is our tour guide through it. In his work he is willing to take on the sadness, the irony, the ugliness and the beauty. But not all of Gottfried's work is on a canvas. A lot of it is the way he's approached life. And it doesn't take someone knowing him to know that. You take one look at the paintings and you say "this guy has been around." You can't sit in a closet - and create this. This level of work is earned.
Sean Penn[48] This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

Gottfried Helnwein is my mentor. His fight for expression and stance against oppression are reasons why I chose him as an artistic partner. An artist that doesn't provoke will be invisible. Art that doesn't cause strong emotions has no meaning. Helnwein has that internalized.
Marilyn Manson Marilyn Manson (born Brian Hugh Warner ) is the lead singer of the band Marilyn Manson. ...

Helnwein's subject matter is the human condition. The metaphor for his art is dominated by the image of the child, but not the carefree innocent child of popular imagination. Helnwein instead creates the profoundly disturbing yet compellingly provocative image of the wounded child. The child scarred physically and the child scarred emotionally from within.
Robert Flynn Johnson, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco [49]

Warhol is the pre-Helnwein ...
Dieter Ronte, Museum of Modern Art, Vienna Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 — February 22, 1987) was an American artist who became a central figure in the movement known as pop art. ...

Works in collections

Gottfried Helnwein's "Last Supper II", 1987, color photograph, Collection Ludwig Museum Cologne.

The Denver Art Museum 2006, Gottfried Helnwein's "Epiphany I (Adoration of the Magi)" (1996, oil and acrylic on canvas, 210 x 333 cm) in the exhibition Radar: Selections From the Collection of Vicki and Kent Logan.

• Los Angeles County Museum of Art
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
• Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Art, San Francisco
• Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
• Denver Art Museum
• Museum Ludwig, Cologne
• Ludwig Forum for International Art Aachen
• Ludwig Museum Schloss Oberhausen
• The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
• Albertina Museum, Vienna
• National Art Museum of China, Beijing
• Museum Folkwang, Essen
• Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California
• 21 Century Museum Louisville, Kentucky
• Polaroid Collection Photographic Resource Center, Boston University
• San Jose Museum of Art
• Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock
• Lentos Museum of Modern Art, Linz, Austria
• Essl Museum for Contemporary Art, Vienna
• Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland
• Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne
• ZKM, Center for Art and Media Museum, Karlsruhe
• Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn
• Leopold Hoesch Museum Düren
• Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern
• Museum of Lower Austria, Sankt Pölten
• Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art Turku, Finland
• National Museum of Photography, Fotomuseo, Bogotá, Colombia
• The Virtual Museum of Art in Second Life.
• Benedikt Taschen Collection, Cologne, Los Angeles
• Robert Wilson Collection, New York
• Vicki and Kent Logan Collection, Denver
• Thom Weisel Collection, San Francisco
• Sean Penn Collection, San Francisco
• Mikki and Stanley Weithorn Collection, New York
• Arnold Schwarzenegger Collection Los Angeles
• Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection, London
• Luke Brugnara Collection, San Francisco
• Ben Kingsley Collection, London
• Nicolas Cage Collection, Los Angeles
• Marilyn Manson Collection, Los Angeles
• Alexander Schütz Collection, Vienna
• Georg Stumpf Collection, Vienna
• Christian Baha Collection, Zürich

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Selected publications

"The Golden Age of Grotesque", (Marilyn Manson), album cover artwork by Gottfried Helnwein, 2003

"Sehnsucht", (Rammstein), album cover artwork by Gottfried Helnwein, 1997

Gottfried Helnwein's self-portrait on the cover of the Scorpions album, Blackout

• The Child, Works by Gottfried Helnwein
  One man exhibition 2004
  San Francisco Fine Arts Museums
  Robert Flynn Johnson, Harry S. Parker
  Robert Flynn Johnson, Helnwein
  (ISBN 0-88401-112-7)
• Face it, Works by Gottfried Helnwein
  One man exhibition 2006
  Lentos Museum of Modern Art Linz
  Stella Rollig, Thomas Edlinger, Nava Semel
  Stella Rollig, Helnwein
  Christian Brandstätter, Wien 2006
  (ISBN 3-902510-39-0)
• Helnwein, Monograph
  Gottfried Helnwein, Retrospective 1997
  State Russian Museum St. Petersburg
  Alexander Borovsky, Curator for Contemporary Art
  Klaus Honnef, Peter Selz, William Burroughs,
  Heiner Müller, H.C. Artmann.
  Klaus Honnef, Helnwein (ISBN 3-930775-31-X)
  Koenemann, 1999 (ISBN 3-8290-1448-1)
• Helnwein - Ninth November Night, 2003
  The Documentary
  Museum of Tolerance, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles
  Johnathon Keats, Simon Wiesenthal
  Johnathon Keats, Helnwein

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Further reading

• Robert F. Johnson, San Francisco Fine Arts Museums, Legion of Honor: 'The Child: Works by Gottfried Helnwein', one man show, July 31 — November 28, 2004. [50]

• Klaus Honnef, "The Subversive Power of Art, Gottfried Helnwein - A Concept Artist before the Turn of the Millennium", University of Heidelberg, 1997.[51]

• Kenneth Baker: "Dark and detached, the art of Gottfried Helnwein demands a response." San Francisco Chronicle, August 9, 2004. [52]

• Steven Winn, "Childhood isn't what it used to be. In the arts, it's dark and complex." San Francisco Chronicle, November 17, 2004. [53]

• Julia Pascal, "Nazi dreaming", New Statesman, UK, April 10, 2006. [54]

• Aiden Dunne, "Cutting Edge", The Irish Times, August 1, 2001. [55]

• Mark Swed: 'Strange, but True - Gottfried Helnwein's wondrous staging of "Der Rosenkavalier", Los Angeles Times, May 31, 2005. [56]

• Stella Rollig, "Gottfried Helnwein: Face it", Lentos Museum of Modern Art, Linz, Exhibition, March 10 - June 5, 2006. [57].

• Mitchell Waxman, "Helnwein ‘Epiphany", Jewish Journal, Los Angeles, July 23, 2004. [58]

• Jeanne Curran and Susan R. Takata, "Shared Reading: Gottfried Helnwein", A Justice Site, California State University, Dominguez Hills, University of Wisconsin, Parkside, 2004. [59]

References

1. ^ Roland Recht, 'Der Untermensch', Gottfried Helnwein, one-man show, Musée d’Art Moderne, Strasbourg, 1987
2. ^ Robert Flynn Johnson, Curator in Charge, Robert Flynn Johnson, Curator in Charge,"The Child - Works by Gottfried Helnwein", California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, ISBN 0-88401-112-7, 2004
3. ^ Nirmala Nataraj, "Gottfried Helnwein's The Child, - Innocence Lost", SF Station, San Francisco, August 15, 2004 [1]
4. ^ Steven Winn, Chronicle Arts and Culture Critic, "Critics Choices 2004, Top Ten", The San Francisco Chronicle, December 26, 2004
5. ^ Harry S.Parker III, Director of Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, "The Child-Works by Gottfried Helnwein", Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2004
6. ^ Gottfried Helnwein, "Memories of Duckburg", translation from German: "Micky Maus unter dem roten Stern", Zeit-Magazin, Hamburg, 12.May.1989. [2]
7. ^ Petra Halkes, "A Fable in Pixels and Paint - Gottfried Helnwein's American Prayer". Image & Imagination, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005 (ISBN 0-7735-2969-1)
8. ^ Alicia Miller, "The Darker Side of Playland: Childhood Imagery from the Logan Collection at SFMOMA", Artweek, US, Nov 1, 2000. [3]
9. ^ Gottfried Helnwein, Peinlich, color pencil, india-ink, and watercolor on cardboard, 60 x 35cm, 1971 [4]
10. ^ Julia Pascal, "Nazi Dreaming", New Statesman, UK, April 10, 2006 [5]
11. ^ TIME Magazine Cover: John F. Kennedy, by Gottfried Helnwein, TIME Magazine, Vol. 122 No. 21, November 14, 1983 [6]
12. ^ Gabriel Bauret, "Gottfried Helnwein", CAMERA International, Paris, Dec. 1, 1992 [7]
13. ^ Studio Helnwein, photo-session with Rammstein, Schloss Burgbrohl, July 5, 1998, www.helnwein-music.com [8]
14. ^ Gottfried Helnwein, Marlene Dietrich, "Some Facts about Myself", Edition Cantz, Stuttgart, Kathleen Madden, New York, 1991, (ISBN 3-89322-226-X)
15. ^ Evie Sullivan, Interview with Marilyn Manson, Inrock, Japan, July, 2004 [9]
16. ^ Green Day: "American Idiots & the New Punk Explosion", The Disinformation Company, 2006, (Page 198), (ISBN 1-932857-32-X) [10]
17. ^ Julia Pascal, "Nazi Dreaming", New Statesman, UK, April 10, 2006
18. ^ Gregory Fuller, "Endzeit-Stimmung - Düstere Bilder in Goldener Zeit", Du Mont Publishing House, Cologne, 1994.[11]
19. ^ Peter Gorsen, "Gottfried Helnwein - The Divided Self", Museum of Modern Art, Strasbourg, Edition Braus, Heidelberg, 1988 [12]
20. ^ Mitchell Waxman, "The Helnwein Epiphany", The Jewish Journal, Los Angeles, July 23, 2004 [13]
21. ^ Julia Pascal, "Nazi Dreaming", New Statesman, UK, April 10, 2006 [14]
22. ^ Anthony Tommasini, "A 'Rosenkavalier' Without Ham and Schmaltz?", The New York Times, May 31, 2005.[15]
23. ^ Gottfried Helnwein, Aktion Sorgenkind, Vienna, 1972, Works, www.helnwein.com [16]
24. ^ Kate Connolly, "Helnwein, the man who used his own blood to paint Hitler", The Guardian, UK, May 16, 2000[17]
25. ^ 34.Filmfestival of Berlin, "Helnwein", The film, Peter Hajek, ORF and ZDF (Austrian and German National Television), 1984[18],[19]
26. ^ Aktion Gott der Untermenschen, Camp Kopal, Austrian Army, (Kopal-Kaserne, St. Pölten-Spratzern, Panzerbrigade 10, österreichisches Bundesheer), 1987 [20]
27. ^ Roland Mischke, "Aefflinge und Tschandalen", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 11. October 1988.[21]
28. ^ Simon Wiesenthal, "Thoughts", Ninth November Night, Installation by Gottfried Helnwein, 09. November 1988[22]
29. ^ Some Facts about Myself, Helnwein, Dietrich, Edition Cantz, Stuttgart, 1990, (ISBN 3-89322-226-X) [23]
30. ^ "The Art of Gottfried Helnwein and the Comic Culture", The Carl Barks exhibition, www.helnweincomic.homestead.com [24]
31. ^ Rammstein, „Sehnsucht„, Motor Music GmbH, Hamburg, 1997, [25]
32. ^ Alicia Miller, "The Darker Side of Playland: Childhood Imagery from the Logan Collection at SFMOMA", Artweek, US, August 20, 2000 [26]
33. ^ "The Child: Works by Gottfried Helnwein", one man show, 31 July–28 November 2004, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Legion of Honor [27]
34. ^ Steven Winn, Chronicle Arts and Culture Critic, "Critics Choices 2004", The San Francisco Chronicle, Dec 26, 2004 [28]
35. ^ Mark Swed, "Strange but True", The Los Angeles Times, May 31, 2005 [29]
36. ^ Hamish Bowles, "The Bride Wore Purple", Vogue, US, February 14, 2006 [30]
37. ^ Resolution of the council of the city of Philadelphia, No. 060769, October, 19, 2006.[31]
38. ^ Link to Second Life, The Virtual Museum of Art[32].
39. ^ The Virtual Museum of Art, website[33]
40. ^ http://www.gottfriedhelnwein.ie/kuenstler/atelier/tafel_1.html
41. ^ http://www.gottfriedhelnwein.ie/country/ireland_special/artikel_2073.html
42. ^ Peter Reichelt, Helnwein and Scientology (H A S):Lies and Treason, 1997[34].
43. ^ Maeve Quigley, „Rocker ties Knot with Dita“, Sunday Mirror, UK, December 4, 2005[35]

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External links

• Official website
• The Irish website
• www.helnwein.net
• www.helnwein-museum.com
• Helnwein's work for the stage
• Helnwein and the comic culture
• Honnef, University Heidelberg
• Helnwein's art referring to the Holocaust
• www.helnwein.org