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Gottfried Helnwein

Austrian
(Vienna, Austria, 1948 - )
Helnwein ...was born in war-torn Vienna in 1948 and received a classical education under Rudolf Hausner at Vienna’s academy. But in the late 1960’s, he and fellow art students rebelled, staging Aktions or happenings within the Vienna Academy and out in the streets. In one, Helnwein stood quietly for hours with an enormous three-foot papier mache sculpture of a hornet clinging to his back.
In 1971 he began the first of a series of troubling pictures showing children grotesquely disfigured with surgical scars. "After the war, Germany and Austria were depressing, destructive environments for children to grow up in," explains Helnwein. "I painted the children to bring a focus to them and their sufferings. The mutilated children are an exteriorized expression of internal scars."
Barnaby Conrad III, Modernism Gallery, Helnwein catalog


		2004 Arkansas Arts Center's collection database. search criteria: Gottfried Helnwein GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN Helnwein ...was born in war-torn Vienna in 1948 and received a classical education under Rudolf Hausner at Vienna’s academy. But in the late 1960’s, he and fellow art students rebelled, staging Aktions or happenings within the Vienna Academy and out in the streets. In one, Helnwein stood quietly for hours with an enormous three-foot papier mache sculpture of a hornet clinging to his back. In 1971 he began the first of a series of troubling pictures showing children grotesquely disfigured with surgical scars.


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		biography Gottfried Helnwein Austrian (Vienna, Austria, 1948 - ) Helnwein ...was born in war-torn Vienna in 1948 and received a classical education under Rudolf Hausner at Vienna’s academy. But in the late 1960’s, he and fellow art students rebelled, staging Aktions or happenings within the Vienna Academy and out in the streets. In one, Helnwein stood quietly for hours with an enormous three-foot papier mache sculpture of a hornet clinging to his back. In 1971 he began the first of a series of troubling pictures showing children grotesquely disfigured with surgical scars. "After the war, Germany and Austria were depressing, destructive environments for children to grow up in," explains Helnwein. "I painted the children to bring a focus to them and their sufferings. The mutilated children are an exteriorized expression of internal scars." Barnaby Conrad III, Modernism Gallery, Helnwein catalog biography


		works in the collection Giants Gottfried Helnwein lithograph 20th Century Austrian Print Marilyn Gottfried Helnwein lithograph 20th Century Austrian Print Mother’s Day III Gottfried Helnwein color pencil on paper 20th Century Austrian Drawing