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Gottfried Helnwein : Dr. Antje Vollmer, Vice-speaker of German Parliament
Ludwig Museum Schloss Oberhausen
Dr. Antje Vollmer

Vice-Speaker of German Parliament

Auszug aus der Rede zur Ausstellungseröffnung „Gottfried Helnwein - Beautiful Children“ im Ludwig Museum Schloss Oberhausen, am 19. Juni 2005
...Bei diesem ersten Besuch habe ich erkannt, dass dieses nur ein Teil von einem Versuch ist, ein Gesamtkunstwerk als Künstler zu schaffen, das nichts ausblendet, nicht die Schönheit der Welt, von Landschaften, von menschlichen Gesichtern, von der Offenheit und Reinheit menschlicher Wesen, bis zum Zauber der selbst von Kindern ausgehen kann, die Gottfried Helnwein immer „diese zarten Geschöpfe“ nennt. Immer ist es eine Art von Vorsicht und außerordentlich großer Sensibilität, die gleichzeitig gekoppelt und kontrastiert wird mit diesem unglaublich intensiven Ausdruck von Schmerz, Verletzung, Zerstörung, Bedrohung, Alptraum, Nachtgesichtern, und Traumfantasie. Diese Mischung, das ist Gottfried Helnwein, er war nie nur das eine.
Dass er bei dem Allem auch außerordentlich politisch ist, das möchte ich gerade bei so vielen Künstlern, die heute ein Programm der reinen Spaßkultur verkörpern, audrücklich lobend erwähnen. Dass es jemanden gibt, der sich als politisches Wesen in seinen Bildern äußert und damit auch politische Wirkungen erzeugt. Die Gegenstände dieser Kunst sind nicht besonders einfache , schöne, gefällige. Sie haben sehr viel Heftigkeit in den Reaktionen erzeugt. Das gehört dazu, wenn man ein politischer Künstler ist. Wer gefällt der lügt. Das größte Verbrechen eines Künstlers ist, wenn er sich der Lüge, der Gefälligkeit aussetzen würde. ... +

Gottfried Helnwein : San Francisco Fine Arts Museums
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contemporary artists like Gottfried Helnwein and Robert Crumb
The museum contains a representative collection of mainly European art. There are individual works by many of the most important artists, including Rembrandt, Gainsborough, David, and many of the impressionists and post-impressionists - Degas, Renoir, Monet, Pissaro, Seurat, Cézanne and others. There are also representative works by key twentieth century figures such as Braque and Picasso, and works of contemporary artists like Gottfried Helnwein and Robert Crumb. ... +

Gottfried Helnwein : "Strange but true", Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Mark Swed
Gottfried Helnwein's wondrous staging of "Der Rosenkavalier" is eccentric and anachronistic — yet utterly faithful to its spirit.
The thing you should know about this "Rosenkavalier" is that it is terrific. Richard Strauss' opera sounds great and looks sensational. It is excellently sung, sumptuously conducted by Kent Nagano and, thanks to Gottfried Helnwein, wondrously strange.
Helnwein — the Austrian artist (painter, photographer, performance artist, filmmaker) who has a studio in downtown L.A. — is known for everything from Marilyn Manson videos to Holocaust installations. He is responsible for the sets, costumes and that ad (which, by the way, looks like an image from a recent staging of a Schumann oratorio that Helnwein designed in Düsseldorf).
Helnwein's vision of "Rosenkavalier" is monochromatic and a riot of color. It is oddly traditional yet seriously odd. It is updated but couldn't be more 18th century. And none of those opposites contradicts. ... +

Gottfried Helnwein : Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss
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Kirsten Lee
Sorry - thats wrong. The film shown was Robert Wiene's "Der Rosenkavalier"(1925) created in collaboration with Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss who wrote the musik for the film (Op. 59) The set and costumes were created by Alfred Roller who was in charge of the sets and costumes for all the Strauss opera-premières in Vienna.
The rushing troop penetrating through the stone arch are soldiers of the Marshall (- the Marshallin's husband) - But it's true that Robert Wiene also created "Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari"(1920) for which he became famous.
(the website editor). ... +

Gottfried Helnwein : Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss
Los Angeles Opera
A visual triumph
Gottfried Helnwein arouses creative tumult. - Los Angeles Times ... +

Gottfried Helnwein : Sonntagskind  (Sunday Child)
30. Deutschen Evangelischen Kirchentag
Predigt der Landesbischöfin im Eröffnungsgottesdienst
Dr. Margot Käßmann

Landesbischöfin

Eins zeigt ein Mädchen mit frechem Gesicht und Blindenband um den Arm, das die Zunge herausstreckt. Erst habe ich gelächelt. Wer den Blick länger verharren lässt, sieht, dass dem Mädchen Blut zwischen den Beinen herunterläuft. Es wurde ganz offensichtlich missbraucht, ihm wurde Gewalt angetan.... Ja, Kinder sind verletzbar. Kindheit kann grausam sein, wenn Kinder ausgeliefert sind. Ich denke an sexuellen Missbrauch, eine unglaublich Form von Folter an Menschen, die lebenslang an dem Trauma leiden werden. Ich denke an Kindersoldaten in Togo, im Kongo, im Sudan. Zerstörte Leben, brutal geopfert für idiotische Machtkämpfe, in denen Zerstörung das oberste Gebot ist, in denen es keine Ziele mehr gibt. Ich denke an Kinder in Indien, die schuften schon mit fünf Jahren um ein paar Münzen zu verdienen, damit ihre Familie überleben kann. Ich denke an die 12-jährigen Judith Wischnajatskaja, die im Juli 1942 in ihrem letzten Brief schrieb: “Lieber Vater! Vor dem Tod nehme ich Abschied von Dir. Wir möchten so gerne leben, doch man lässt uns nicht, wir werden umkommen. Ich habe solche Angst vor diesem Tod, denn die kleinen Kinder werden lebendig in die Grube geworfen.“ ... +

Gottfried Helnwein : Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss
Los Angeles Opera
www.losangelesopera.com
Gottfried Helnwein
Marie Antoinette, for example, was obsessed with the idea of pretending to be a simple innocent peasant girl. Her husband built her an entire life-sized fantasy farmhouse and mill with sheep, shepherds and all - and an idealistic landscape shaped around it. Dressed in theatrical shepherdess attire, she could now play "innocent country folk" with her girlfriends. ... +

Gottfried Helnwein : "Beautiful Children" Ludwig Museum Schloss Oberhausen
Ludwig Museum Schloss Oberhausen und Wilhelm Busch Museum Hannover
Katalog zu der Einzelausstellung
Peter Pachnike und Gisela Vetter-Liebenow
Auszüge aus dem Vorwort zu "Gottfried Helnwein - Beautiful Children"
„Ein göttlich Wesen ist das Kind, solang es nicht in die Chamäleonsfarbe der Menschen getaucht ist. Es ist ganz, was es ist, und darum ist es so schön. Der Zwang des Gesetzes und des Schicksals betastet es nicht; im Kind ist Freiheit allein. In ihm ist Frieden; es ist noch mit sich selber nicht zerfallen“
Friedrich Hölderlin
Immer wieder waren es Gleichgültigkeit und Teilnahmslosigkeit der Menschen, die Helnwein zu künstlerischen Aktionen bewegt haben. So führte er in den 70er Jahren Straßenaktionen durch, in denen er Kinder bandagierte und mit chirurgischen Klammern versehen auf die Straße legte. Für die Kinder war es eine Art Spiel; für Helnwein der Versuch, „immer wieder in den Alltag – der so genormt abläuft – Störfaktoren einzubringen, um zu sehen, wie die Leute reagieren.“ ... +

Gottfried Helnwein :
ARTnews
Volume 104/Number 3
Kenneth Baker
A highly satisfying survey of his work at the Legion of Honor museum titled "The Child" was dominated by images of children, as was a current exhibition of his more recent work at Modernism. ... +

Gottfried Helnwein : Lucky Devil (Der Glückspilz)
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In fact Gottfried Helnwein made his name by spectacular performances, among them are self mutilations or simulacra of violence inflicted on himself. The violence is often concentrated on the eyes. The artist takes to bandaging the head which deprives the individual of all visual relations with the outside world. An obvious paradox on the part of an artist's whole life and work is closely linked with sight, to apply himself to representing, in various forms, impediments and problems of sight. Undoubtedly the scope of his projects is not limited to the sole artistic domain. His art also takes on an obvious historic dimension. Like a good number of artists of his generation, those born after the war, be they writers, painters, film makers or photographers, Gottfried Helnwein feels intense guilt at belonging to a part of Europe with such an unbearable past. ... +

Gottfried Helnwein : Head of a Child 5
Victoria H. Myhren Gallery
School of Art and Art History, University of Denver
Gwen F. Chanzit
An exhibition of works from the Denver Art Museum’s fractional and promised gift of contemporary art from the collection of Vicki and Kent Logan.
Helnwein’s subject matter involves the complexities of the human condition. His disturbing yet provocative images of physically and emotionally wounded children have been seen as metaphors for larger global issues. He portrays the innocence of adolescence against the backdrop of shameful historical events like the Holocaust to highlight the fragility of humanity in an unstable world. Like Wong from Asia and Sherman from the United States, Helnwein offers up dramatic scenarios featuring youthful protagonists that beg a viewer to complete the equation.
The child’s face – painted in a realistic style yet eerily unreal – may allude to the uncertain (in limbo-like) quality of Helnwein’s own childhood. Helnwein is among a network of contemporary artists expressing visions that embrace and also transcend cultural nomenclature. ... +

Gottfried Helnwein : Andy Warhol
Laboratorium foto Reportażu
Anna Konieczna
Jest to album także dla poszukujących, dla tych, których interesuje kręta droga fotografii i chcą ją poznać, dla tych, którzy zaczynają formalną zabawę z fotografią...
Gottfried Helnwein przedsatwiający fotografie Andiego Worhola, Michaela Jacksona, interesował się także pokazywaniem aktów przemocy i jej odbiorem przez obojętne audytorium jak w "Ostatniej wieczerzy", należał w Wiedniu do grupy, która w latach 60-tych eksplorowała temat przemocy w sztuce, działając też na polu performance. ... +

Gottfried Helnwein : "The Child", works by Gottfried Helnwein
San Francisco Chronicle
Chronicle Arts and Culture Critic
Steven Winn
Arts and culture
TOP 10
The Gottfried Helnwein exhibition "The Child" at the Palace of the Legion of Honor (San Francisco Fine Arts Museums, July) was chosen as the most important show of a contemporary artist in 2004.
"In the first of two shows (the other at the Modernism Gallery in November), 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." ... +

Universiteit Gent
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Sarah Rombouts
Gottfried Helnwein by Sarah Rombouts
Deze webpagina werd gemaakt door Sarah Rombouts, een studente van de 2 kandidatuur Kunstwetenschappen van de Universiteit Gent, als jaaropdracht voor het vak Informatica Toegepast op Kunst.
Zijn kunst heeft een doel: Helnwein wil provoceren, wil dat de toeschouwers nadenken. Door alle dagen gewonde en verminkte kinderen op televisie en in de kranten te zien raakt onze maatschappij immuun voor die beelden. Door die beelden hyperrealistisch te schilderen in een subtiele en delicate pasteltechniek, maakt hij die beelden weer zienbaar voor de toeschouwers, die er terug walging voor (kunnen) krijgen. Hij is de eerste Duitstalige kunstenaar die na de Tweede Wereldoorlog zo expliciet verwijst naar de gruwelen en het geweld die onder het Nazi-regime gebeurd zijn. Een bekend voorbeeld hiervan is zijn protest tegen dr. Gross, die tijdens het regime van de nazi's honderden kinderen vergiftigd had op, volgens de dokter, humane wijze. ... +

Filmarchiv Austria
www.filmarchiv.at
Dietmar Schwärzler
Regie: Peter Hajek
Das von Peter Hajek 1984 inszenierte Porträt begibt sich auf die Spuren von Helnweins Leben und Werk. Er wurde in den 1970er-Jahren vor allem durch seine hyperrealistischen Bilder von verwundeten und bandagierten Kindern bekannt und hat sich seit den 1980er-Jahren vor allem der Fotografie und großformatigen Installationen im öffentlichen Raum – meistens mit einem sozialen oder gesellschaftspolitischen Anliegen – zugewandt. Kinder, oft seine eigenen, sind auch der Rahmen, in dem Helnwein bei der Arbeit, im Familienverbund oder beim Spiel präsentiert wird und durch welchen er in dieser Mischform aus fiktivem Dokument und realer Fiktion sowohl künstlerisch als auch sozial kommuniziert ... +

Gottfried Helnwein :
San Francisco Fine Arts Museums
Summary of reviews and texts
The Child - works by Gottfried Helnwein

Palace of the Legion of Honor

The Child- ゴットフリード・ヘルンウェイン(Gottfried Helnwein)
Adults bring a trunkful of contradictory cultural baggage to any representations of children. That's what makes the work of Helnwein so powerful. In his show, "The Child," at the Legion of Honor (of the San Francisco Fine Arts Museums), deformed infants and bandaged children stir feelings of pity, defiance and uneasiness about exploitation. There's an ambiguously disturbing painting of a girl aiming a gun into an open refrigerator and another of a bare-breasted mother and child surrounded by Aryan soldiers.
But the most haunting images may be the ones of children who seem strangely oblivious to the adult gaze. Some of Helnwein's children peer right past the onlooker. Others sleep, dreaming of anything but us behind their silky eyelids. And some, like the enormous, half- shadowed "Head of a Child" at the Legion, see straight through us with cloudless, infinite blue eyes.
Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle, 17. November 2004
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California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. さてさて。旅行記めいたものを書きますと長くなり、途中でやめてしまうことが多いので、今回の旅行の中で印象に残った点を、つらつらと書いてみたいと思います。ゴットフリード・ヘルンウェイン(Gottfried Helnwein)。この片仮名表記で合ってるかどうかわかりませんが。オーストリア人アーティストです。現在のコンテンポラリーでは、彼の作品展「The Child」が開催されていました。 ... +

Gottfried Helnwein : Ireland
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Arts and Culture of the South East
Brendan Maher

Editor

Helnwein:
"...When I look at a work of Art I ask myself: does it challenge me, does it touch, move or inspire me? Do I learn something from it, does it startle or amaze me - do I get excited, upset?
That is the test any artwork has to pass: can it create an emotional impact on a human being even when he has no education or any information about art? I’ve always had a problem with art that you can only understand if you have a degree in art history, and I have a problem with theories in general. Most of them are bullshit anyway.
Most critics and theorists have little respect for artists, and I think the importance of theory in art is totally overrated. Real art is self-evident. Real art is intense, challenging, enchanting, exciting and unsettling; it has a quality and magic that you cannot explain. Like the Blues, a poem of Rimbaud or Rembrandt's late self-portraits.
Art is not logic, and if you really want to experience it, your mind and rational thinking will be of little help. Art is something spiritual that you can only experience with your senses, your heart, your soul. Think of Bob Dylan, Hendrix, Mozart, Howling Wolf, Goya, Marilyn Manson, Bukowski or Robert Crumb - do you need to know the theories that some busybodies might attach to their art in order to experience it?
Marcel Duchamp said: "The work of art is always based on the two poles of the onlooker and the maker, and the spark that comes from the bipolar action gives birth to something - like electricity."
These two poles is all you need. ... +

Gottfried Helnwein : Modern Sleep 3
San Francisco Chronicle
Steven Winn

Chronicle Arts and Culture Critic

Gottfried Helnwein's work is on display at the Legion of Honor and at Modernism Inc.
Her lips are parted and colored a luscious deep red. The pancake makeup on her face gives off a marble-white glow. A jacket, adorned with braided gold epaulets at the shoulders, yawns open, exposing a wide expanse of skin down her chest. She appears to be about 8 years old.
There was a time, not so long ago, when the subject of Gottfried Helnwein's new, large-format digital prints at San Francisco's Modernism Gallery might have alarmed or even scandalized a viewer. Not anymore -- or at least not so reflexively...
Adults bring a trunkful of contradictory cultural baggage to any representations of children. That's what makes the work of Helnwein so powerful. In his show, "The Child," at the Legion of Honor, deformed infants and bandaged children stir feelings of pity, defiance and uneasiness about exploitation. There's an ambiguously disturbing painting of a girl aiming a gun into an open refrigerator and another of a bare-breasted mother and child surrounded by Aryan soldiers.
But the most haunting images, here and across town at Modernism, may be the ones of children who seem strangely oblivious to the adult gaze. Some of Helnwein's children peer right past the onlooker. Others sleep, dreaming of anything but us behind their silky eyelids. And some, like the enormous, half- shadowed "Head of a Child" at the Legion, see straight through us with cloudless, infinite blue eyes. ... +

Gottfried Helnwein : Das Paradies und die Peri
Schumann Festival 2004
Tonhalle Concert Hall

Düsseldorf

BREATH TAKING STAGE VERSION AT DÜSSELDORF CONCERT HALL

Dance icon Gregor Seyffert, and Gottfried Helnwein, internationally renowned artist and stage designer, came up with a highly intelligent concept for the oratorio, which relied heavily on dance, but also comprised whatever means a modern, multimedia stage design might offer. Consequently, the audience’s eyes almost popped out of their heads. With all the media activities, one might almost forget the enchanting, beautiful music, and singing.

Storming, unceasing applause by an enthusiastic Düsseldorf audience for an evening which is unlikely to be easily forgotten. This was an example of lively music theatre, which, unchallenged, not only stole the glory of Deutsche Oper am Rhein, which presently enjoys a period of profound hibernation, but proved that Düsseldorf may well offer first class art. Why not more often?
(Peter Bilsing) ... +

Gottfried Helnwein : Late Regret
Artweek
Volume 35, Issue 8
Colin Berry
Helnwein is the next generation’s final ally, a skilled provocateur forcing us to confront the legacy we have bequeathed upon our children. Helnwein is our chronicler, our conscience, the antidote to our failing memories. He refuses to let us forget…
Gottfried Helnwein’s first one-man exhibition at a major American museum is long overdue. 35 years in the making, “The Child” is a collection of more than fifty drawings, watercolors, photographs, and paintings (several monumental in size). It’s also a show that shocks, and among the crowds thronging to see it, some patrons will be put off: the day I attended, a few seemed downright uncomfortable, if not hostile, toward the work. This is fine. Art should shock, and provoke, and make us feel queasy sometimes.
“The Child” achieves all three, but also startles us with aching beauty, bedazzles us with painterly skill, and injects a necessary perspective into the culture’s collective conscience. ... +



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