Gottfried Helnwein | ARTIST | Exhibitions

Baumgartner Galleries is introducing the work of Gottfried Helnwein, a young Viennese artist who shares what seems to be an Austrian obsession with highly detailed realism - with a surrealistic edge. Trained at the Austrian Academy, and now in the process of moving to New York, Helnwein makes figurative drawings and watercolors that are occasionally gruesome, sometimes haunting and always ambiguous. Spatial and narrative ambiguity are, in fact, the central expressive devices in Helnwein's art. ...


	1982 Photo Art, Cologne Galerie 70, Berlin ONE-MAN SHOW


	03. August 1981 The Washington Post Jo-Ann Lewis CONUNDRUMS Baumgartner Galleries is introducing the work of Gottfried Helnwein, a young Viennese artist who shares what seems to be an Austrian obsession with highly detailed realism - with a surrealistic edge. Trained at the Austrian Academy, and now in the process of moving to New York, Helnwein makes figurative drawings and watercolors that are occasionally gruesome, sometimes haunting and always ambiguous. Spatial and narrative ambiguity are, in fact, the central expressive devices in Helnwein's art. ... Gottfried Helnwein, One-man show Baumgartner Galleries, Washington 1981


	1981 Ljubliana INTERNATIONAL BIENNAL OF GRAPHIC ART, LJUBLIANA Group show


	1981 Galerie Würthle Vienna Werner Hoffmann Museum of Modern Art, Vienna 60 JAHRE GALERIE WÜRTHLE, 60 JAHRE MODERNE KUNST IN ÖSTERREICH 60 Years Galerie Würthle, 60 Years of Modern Art in Austria group show exhibition catalogue: texts by Werner Hoffmann and Hans Dichand ...


	1980 Galerie Bloch, Innsbruck GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN, WORKS ON PAPER one-man show


	10. April 1979 Graphische Sammlung Albertina Wien Walter Koschatzky DireKtor GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN - ZEICHNUNGEN ZU POE One man show ...


	1979 Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna Austria “DER STAAT ALS KUNSTKÄUFER – DIE UNBEKANNTE SAMMLUNG" Group show


	1979 Zürich The International Year of the Child R. HÖPFINGER AND E. REGNIER HAND OUT SWEETS AND TOYS BEARING TEXTS AND HELNWEIN PICTURES OF WOUNDED CHILDREN TO PASSERS-BY IN ZÜRICH. Aktion in the International Year of the Child. ...


	1978 Galerie Basilisk, Vienna Austria “COMIC-KUNST UND KÜNSTLER-COMIC” Group show


	1978 Kultur Zentrum Perchtoldsdorf, Vienna Niederösterreichische Gesellschaft für Kunst und Kultur Kristian Sotriffer “WAS KANN KUNST? KANN KUNST WAS?” Group show Kurator: Kristian Sotriffer


	1980 Galerie Schindler, Bern Switzerland GROUP SHOW


	1979 Galleria de Naviglio Milano ONE-MAN SHOW


	1978 Italy ARTE FIERA, BOLOGNA Group show


	1977 Freilichtmuseum Ensemble Gerersdorf Burgenland Ilse und Gerhard Kisser Curators ONE MAN SHOW Eröffnung des Freilichtmuseum Ensemble Gerersdorf ...


	1977 Galerie Spectrum Vienna HELNWEIN one man show Catalogue ...