Einer erstellt die Summe seiner Beobachtungen in dieser Welt der Patzer und Dämonen. Er vernimmt die Schreie aus den gekachelten Schreckträumen abseits einer satten Gesellschaft, die weder mit dem Laub der Bäume noch mit dem Grün der Laubfrösche noch mit den Froschaugen des Miterlebens zu schaffen haben will. Er aber hört manche, die da schreien bis ihnen die Gehirne zerspringen wie Lichtjahre, und hört andere, still vor sich Hinweinende, deren tropfende Tränen eines noch-hoffens mit dem abscheulichen Eisskalpell der Hoffnungslosigkeit seziert werden. ...

Eine absolute Überraschung. Wo der Großteil der Musikszene dem Zeitgeist hinterher läuft oder ihn verzweifelt sucht, da geht der Einzelkämpfer Marius Müller-Westernhagen einen ganz anderen Weg: Back to the roots. Rockig wie in seinen Anfangsjahren, vielleicht noch eine Spur mehr. Der Gesang intensiv wie selten zuvor, genauso wie seine Wortschöpfungen.
Erwähnenswert wäre auch noch die Gestaltung der CD in einer edlen Karton-Box mit Gottfried Helnwein-Gemälde. Ein Album, dass herausfordert! ...

Marilyn Manson a vraiment des goûts de ch...
Le chanteur satanique,
Marilyn Manson a décidé de venir en aide au très controversé artiste autrichien, Gottfried Helnwein, connu pour son travail représentant l'holocauste et utilisant très fréquemment les symboles nazi.
Le chanteur a déclaré sur son site officiel qu'il était en relation avec Helnwein, qu'ils discutaient d'un "multi-media-prop chaos", tout en préparant sa nouvelle création : "The Golden Age Of Grotesque".

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"Watch Your Music" is like interactive MTV on your own private computer.
Like music CDs as sound tracks, there will be world CDs as graphic tracks. And a lot of artist from pop business, film, painting, architecture ... can create own worlds, which, of course, mirror their art and their point of view. There may be worlds from H.R. Giger, the Spice Girls, Helnwein, Disney, Bob Dylan, worlds relating to van Gogh, Warhol, Picasso, Beuys ... worlds which are based on real existing places (ocean world, moon world ...), or based on movies (cartoon world, western world ...) ...

Rolling Stones LYRICS
Rolling Stones DISCOGRAPHY
keith@keith.de

Marilyn Manson Interview
Cyril Helnwein, der Sohn des Künstlers Gottfried Helnwein, interviewte Marilyn Manson für das Magazin 'Tastes Like Chicken'. Das Interview kann man sich auf der Website www.tlchicken.com/main.html unter "interviews" / "Marilyn Manson" anschauen. ...

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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. ...

Helnwein.
Gottfried Helnwein. Palace edition.
St. Petersburg, Russia : State Russian Museum, 1997.
Art/Classics fTR647.H441997 Room 308G

Welcome to Shannyn Sossamon Online
IMAGES: PHOTO-SHOOTS - GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN

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 ...

Helnwein.com. Gottfried Helnwein : My personal favourite artist. Consistently outstanding, and his site is always informative and up to date.

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? ... ...

Q:How can you explain the artistic cruelty of your cover art works? Why is there so much pain and suffering on them? Where is the border between art and cruelty?
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A:We like to arise controversies and that is why already on the second album we decided to choose the photographs of Helnwein for our cover artwork. We really like his attitude towards art and the way he showed us. It turned out that a band picture can be something different, a real art, and not just another common, boring shot of a few people. ...

originally appeared in: HELNWEIN, Gottfried. Wer ist Carl Barks. Radolfszell: Neff Verlag, 1993. (p. 238-241)
Carl Barks
His Work and
His Life
"My greatest source of enjoyment in Carl Barks' comics is in the imagination of his stories. They're so full of crazy ideas - unique and special..." George Lucas! ...

Indepth Arts News:
..Alfred Kubin's Kuss (Kiss) is also expected to cause quite a stir in the room. The ink drawing of 1903 is probably a reaction to the sudden death of the artist's fiance Emmy Bayer. The profound work on hand-made paper is estimated at DM 12,000 - 15,000.
Slightly higher is the estimate for a work by Gottfried Helnwein which was made around 1982 and is expected to fetch DM 18,000 - 20,000. One year earlier the artist began with a series about Helden (Heros) of today, which include the extraterrestrial E.T. from Steven Spielberg's film. With his smoking E.T. Helnwein defies art by making a mass-media fantasy figure, the hero of countless children, into an object worthy of depiction.
Completely detached is Georges Braque's Grand oiseau bleu floating in the sky. The colour lithograph is estimated at DM 14,000 - 16,000. ...

A controversial "Nazi" image by artist Gottfried Helnwein was daubed with red paint last week as Kilkenny Arts Festival entered its final days. Another Helnwein print, of a local girl, was set on fire and extensively damaged.

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. ...