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Auch dieser Fall berührt wieder einmal mehr die Seele der kleinen Alpenrepublik, die sich bis weit in das vergangene Jahrhundert hinein reflektiert in den Geschichten und Gedichten zahlreicher berühmter Autoren oder etwa in Bildern von Helnwein, auf den Menschen zu sehen sind, denen Gabeln in die Augen gedrückt werden. ...

Let us answer by means of an amusing anecdote. Several years ago we were walking down the Kantstrasse in Berlin when a speeding automobile ran up onto the sidewalk, struck us from behind, and then proceeded to us several hundred feet up the steet. Helnwein was behind the wheel. Then, when we finally came out of our coma, Helnwein burst into our hospital room and struck us a glancing blow with a croquet mallet. Finally, Helnwein marked our release from the hospital by hiring a mime troupe to beat us up. And not in mime, either. With their real fists. Helnwein called the resulting piece Someone Has to Suffer For My Art, and It's Not Going to Be Me. ...

Helnwein为一般人所知也许皆因为他为曼森专辑所设计的封面和CD彩页。扭曲变形的彩色人面封面和CD所附带的“孩童和枪”的彩页，似乎怀着恶意和颠覆在向一切冷冷微笑。而这一系列的造型设计，成为了后来美国校园枪机案后曼森遭受指责的直接原因。
Helnwein出生于维也纳。1969年到1973年在维也纳Fine Art学院学习油画。观察Helnwein的艺术创作，会发现他的作品有这样几个特点，首先是他的作品集中于表现孩童。他从学院毕业的71年开始到90年代的油画作品大部分都是一些缠着绷带，带着缝线伤口向你诡异微笑的孩童，也许原版的格林童话应该让他来做插图，而NICK CAVE应该采用他的早期油画来做插页，咧开撕裂缝合的嘴角，那是小小的孩子渗入骨髓的恐惧和恶意。他的摄象作品则很多都是儿童的各中头像。有很多也是他油画的模特形象。 ...

Vicki and Kent Logan hosting a dinner at their home in honor of Gottfried Helnwein. ...

I have seldom seen injustice presented so directly and so well as a subject of fine art. The work of Leon Golub comes to mind, whose extravagant visions of contemporary torture are so chilling, in part because they exhibit with beautiful painting the smiling indifference of the torturers. Gottfried Helnwein paints views of sadistic punishment with the care and precision of a latter-day Vermeer. Robert Capa and Gerda Taro photograph the Spanish Civil War with the emotional intensity of Goya. Goya himself, whose paintings and prints — in a book of his etchings entitled The Disasters of War, published posthumously in 1863 — depict so effectively the savagery of guerilla warfare. ...

By in large, I like to stay on the beaten track with website design reviews. I usually pick big corporates that should know better or who have the funds to produce something of high quality. However today’s review focuses on the power of one. The website up for review is that of the extraordinary artist Gottfried Helnwein. Helnwein was born in Vienna but has both Austrian and Irish citizenship, and resides in Tipperary for half of the year. His art is in one word: incredible. I’m not an art critic and I am do not possess the skills to convey the quality of this man’s work so visit the website and judge for yourself.

By all accounts Helnwein is comfortable in the web setting. While his art is known for its shocking and often controversial visuals, he ironically displays the work in a way that adheres to web standards and here-in lies the key. Art should break standards and websites should adhere to standards. Helnwein excels at this whereas as most artists are happy to pedal conventional art on websites that break standards.

Gottfried we salute you. ...

Diese umfangreiche Monografie von Könemann, die anlässlich der grossen Helnwein-Retrospektive im Staatlichen Russischen Museum in St. Petersburg, 1997 herausgegeben wurde, ist wahrscheinlich immer noch das informativste Buch für jeden, der sich für das Werk dieses ästhetischen Provokateurs interessiert.
Es war die erste Publikation, welche die verschiedenen Werksgruppen in Helnweins umfassendem Gesamtwerk in einem Band zusammengefasst, und in Relation gestellt hat.
Der Zusammenhang zwischen den veschiedenen Abschnitten seiner künstlerischen Entwicklung, und den unterschiedlichen medialen und stilistischen Aspekten seiner Arbeit, seinen frühen Aktionen, Fotografien, Zeichnungen, Aquarellen, und seinen späteren grossformatigen Mixed-Media Arbeiten und Installationen, sind hier auf hervorragende Weise veranschaulicht. ...

Publication Date: February 12, 2008 ...

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