Gottfried Helnwein, John Lennon, 1994
oil and acrylic on canvas,
courtesy Modernism, San Francisco ...

feb 17th, 2002, 6:29pm:
I was introduced to this artist a couple of years ago by a friend. He's not a new artist on the European or World scene by any means, but anyone who enjoys the more disturbing, symbolic and deranged David Lynch films (Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive) should check him out. ...

『HELNWEIN』 Gottfried Helnwein (98Konemann)
良い子は見ないで下さい
スコーピオンズ『ブラックアウト』 やラムシュタイン『渇望Sehnsucht』のジャケットで有名、ヘルンバインの画集。70年代初期アクション時代から90年代コンピューター処理を経た作品までを網羅した一家に一冊のベスト本！25㎝×32㎝420ページ、重い！テーマは苦しみ、虐待、死、特に児童虐待と内容も重い！
年代順の作品解説、論考？、Ｈ・ミューラー、Ｗ・バロウズの寄稿文が英、独、仏語で載っている。リブロポートから昔出た『ヘルンバイン』を捜し求めるよりはこれを買ってください。私は渋谷パルコブックセンターで￥5000で購入したが、紀伊国屋ネット会員だともう少し安い。最新シリーズはwww.helnwein.comで。 ...

GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN
構成・解説　伊藤俊治
リブロポート
オーストリア＝ウィーンはヤバい芸術家を数多く輩出／排出している。シェーンベルク、ベルク、ウェーベルンら新ウィーン楽派の音楽、シーレ、ココシュカらの表現主義的な絵画、フックスらのウィーン幻想派。
そして、我らがヒーロー、ゴットフリート・ヘルンヴァイン。 ...

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"Kleines Helnwein" a play by Rodrigo M. Malmsten
inspired by the early work of Gottfried Helnwein
language: spanish

Kleines Helnwein, está inspirada en la estética de Gottfried Helnwein, artista plástico contemporáneo. La dura e irónica temática de su obra denuncia las consecuencias de toda una sociedad signada por la oscuridad y la hipocresía; la sociedad del propio G. Helnwein (Austria), así como las de tantas otras. Una mujer que vive como una niña; un hombre que vive como un niño; una entidad ("Kleines", es el adjetivo aleman neutro: lo pequeño) se trata de una víctima aunque también, de un posible victimario. Tal vez, en su historia, sus padres hayan ejercido abusos de poder sobre este niño/hombre o esta niña/mujer. Tal vez no hubo padres, sino una figura real side nuestro reciente pasado histórico, responsable de haber deformado a este individuo/sujeto/personaje, convirtiéndolo en un ser perverso y dulce, en un asesino posible. Kleines Helnwein no será luego una víctima. ...

Abitur 2002
KUNSTERZIEHUNG
als Leistungsfach
Malerei/Grafik
Aufgabe mit gestalterischem Schwerpunkt und schriftlichem Anteil
Chuck Close: Selbstporträt, 1971
Gottfried Helnwein: Selbstporträt, 1983
Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn: Selbstbildnisse 1630, Radierungen ...

How can one recount the Holocaust? That is certainly one of the major questions confronting any writer who tries to write on this theme. How is one to transform the horrific and inconceivable reality into fiction? How can one create a feeling of aunthenticity in the reader? How to disturb his emotional world without resorting to sentimental manipulation and how to avoid banality? ... ...

"Sogar Marlenes Stimme klang einsam"
Am Ende ihres Lebens schloss sich Marlene Dietrich von der Welt aus. Zu den sieben Freunden, die sie in ihrer Pariser Wohnung besuchen durften, gehörten der Maler Gottfried Helnwein und seine Frau Renate. Sie erzählen von ihrer Freundschaft zu der Diva, die am 27. Dezember 100 Jahre alt geworden wäre. ...

Artists in their pusuit to understand themselves and the world around them have been forced to face the pain of suffering.
Helnwein, in his important "American Madonna" (Epiphany IV) painting, depicts with provocation the conflict between men of power and the weak.
In this present day setting, the police are confronting a divine being. ...

Jason Lee and Beth stay with Gottfried Helnwein in Ireland and acquire the painting "Epiphany III"(Adoration of the Shepards). ...

A spokesman for the festival said they were "disappointed and saddened" that the images had been attacked. He said Mr Helnwein's work had provoked a strong reaction throughout the festival. "There have been a lot of positive comments but there has been negative reaction as well."
The images have been a major talking point since before the festival began. A former mayor of the city, Mr Paul Cuddihy, initially objected to a painting being hung on the City Hall for fear it might be misinterpreted as lending support to Nazism. After meeting Mr Helnwein at his studio in Co Tipperary, however, Mr Cuddihy said the artist's work was "astonishingly good".

Kilkenny Arts Festival said the artist had a long and acknowledged record of taking a firm stand against Nazism and fascism. ...

A controversial mural by Austrian artist, Gottfried Helnwein has been damaged at the Kilkenny Arts Festival.
Huge canvases of his work, depicting images of Nazi soldiers staring adoringly at modern Madonna and Child figures, were displayed on various buildings in Kilkenny during the festival.
One of the murals hanging at the front of Kilkenny castle had paint thrown at it sometime during the night.
Another picture by Mr Helnwein, featuring a young Kilkenny girl, was also partially damaged in another part of the town. ...

one-man show at the Butler House and large Installations in the medival city center of Kilkenny ...

Workmen finish one of a series of prints measuring 9.3 metres by 6.2 metres by Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein.The prints of Kilkenny children will hang on buildings in Kilkenny as parts of its arts festival beginning on August 10th. ...

The disturbing Work of Helnwein comes to Ireland Helnwein is a headline artist who works in tight sound bites on a very large scale. The works brand themselves with proof of his technical know-how in various media and are endorsed by the coolest celebrities of his generation. So much for the cover-story, so what lies within? Headlines lure you into stories that make you want to cry, smile or help to change the world. But when they stop at your own skin, you can get a sinking feeling, a sense of the bigness and badness outside and the impossibility of change. ...

Exhibition - catalogue
One man show, Butler House, Kilkenny
Installation in the Kilkenny city center
Introduction by Claire O'Donoghue
Essay by Mic Moroney

Ninety children from around the city and country were photographed by the artist here in the High Street and nine are displayed in central locations around the city, dramatically enlarged up to 9 metres high. This ongoing project, begun here, will continue in other cities and towns in Ireland as the artist intends to expand the work to include one thousand Irish children. These beautiful,confident and happy children from Kilkenny contrast starkly with some of his more disturbing imagery. The juxtaposition of historical photographs of the Nazi regime with religious imagery of the Madonna and Child in the "Epiphany" series can make uneasy viewing not only in Germany and Austria but also here in Kilkenny.
Amongst a number of possible readings of these works is the uncomfortable relationship between the church and oppression in its various forms. However, as the artist Nolde said, "harmless pictures seldom mean anything". Nolde was banned from painting by the Nazi regime. ...

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Una sociedad intolerante formada por padres que abusan de sus hijos y líderes políticos que ejercen de dictadores es lo que podremos ver en Kleines Helnwein, el espectáculo que el argentino Rodrigo M. Malmsten presenta en el Grec.
Inspirada en la estética del pintor austriaco Gottfried Helnwein, autor de obras que denuncian una sociedad oscura e hipócrita, para Kleines Helnwein Malmsten ha escrito un texto fragmentario, no realista, en el que el espectador advierte que el personaje que es una víctima se convierte en verdugo. ...

Lang anhaltender Applaus, Bravorufe, nicht ein einziges Buh ertönte.
Die Premiere von Strawinskys"The Rake's Progress" in der Inszenierung von Jürgen Flimm an der Hamburgischen Staatsoper fand eine tolle Resonanz beim Publikum .
Musikalischer Leiter war Ingo Metzmacher und der international bekannte Künstler Gottfried Helnwein begeisterte mit seiner Ausstattung. ...