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Gottfried Helnwein :
Edition Cantz
A Kathleen Maddan edition in association with Edition Cantz
Marlene Dietrich
For the occasion of the fall of the Berlin-wall Gottfried Helnwein and Marlene Dietrich created the book "Some Facts about Myself"
text by Marlene Dietrich
conception by Gottfried Helnwein
photographs of Berlin by Gottfried Helnwein
design und layout by Neville Brody and Giles Dunn ... +

Marlene Dietrich
They are completely apart from other human beings.
Their emotions, all their feelings,their reactions are opposed to so-called "normal" people's sentiments.
They are vulnerable and deeple sensitive people, due to their talents, their super-imagination, their knowledge of hidden influences of which we ordinary human beings are not.
They are not easy to live with - if you choose to live with them at all, if you have the luck to meet them at all.
Writers, composers, painters - also artists like directors, and actors fall into the same category.
They are to be handeled with kid-gloves, mentally and physically.
And their reactions go to extremes, compared to non-artistic human beings.
And I was lucky enough to meet and love and work for many, many artists,
I learned not without heartbreak and pain, to become a better, more intelligent, respectful and devoted person.
No tears were wasted in the process. My tears - not theirs!
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Marlene Dietrich ... +

Gottfried Helnwein : American Prayer
ZeitMagazin
Hamburg
Gottfried Helnwein
Gottfried helnwein about Carl Barks, the man who created Donald Duck.
At nights my room was plunged into a deep, red light - my toys, the furniture, my bed, my hands - everything had the same color and seemed to be made of the same soft material. As though the natural laws were suddenly suspended, all matter seemed to glow from the inside out. The explanation for this red magic was the large illuminated star of the Red Army on the roof of the factory across the street, which poured it’s fire nightly into my room. ... +
The Museum of the 100 paintings, Important writers and artists present their favorite artwork.
Published by Fritz J. Raddatz

Gottfried Helnwein :
Museum Folkwang, Essen
"Gottfried Helnwein, Works on Paper"
Peter Gorsen

Professor for Art History, Vienna

Helnwein will most certainly attain an appropriate place within the lively history of Austrian art and scandal, which includes the works of Schiele, Gerstl, Schoenberg and others, as well as, the "Viennese Action group" ("Wiener Aktionsgruppe"). ... +

Gottfried Helnwein : Neunter November Nacht
Ludwig Museum, Cologne
Gottfried Helnwein
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, September 9 - December 9, 1988
An Installation by Gottfried Helnwein in memory of "Kristallnacht" (The Night of Broken Glass) 1938.
The Installation was erected in fall 1988 on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Pogrom in the night of November 9, 1938. The Installation was placed between Ludwig Museum and the Cologne Cathedral, alongside the railroad track of the central station of Cologne.
A hundred meter long wall of pictures with large images of children's faces, in a seemingly endless row, as if made to "line up to be sorted" - "selected". With the faces of christian, jewisch and handicapped children, that lived in Germany in 1988.
The first panel was white and had only one word written on: "Selektion". ... +

Gottfried Helnwein : Selektion - Ninth November Night
Charles-Henri Favrod
Director Musée de l'Elysée Lausanne
"Ninth November Night" Catalogue
"In the struggle against the Jew, I defend the acts of God!" Those were Hitler's words in Mein Kampf.
I admire the work of Gottfried Helnwein a great deal. This photographic testimony encourages reflection and provokes the examination of conscience, which is necessary for every one of us where racism is concerned. The laceration of the portraits is proof of the fact that we cannot be indifferent to the warning of the "final solution".
I consider myself lucky to be able to exhibit this gallery of memories in its present form in Lausanne. ... +
Gottfried Helnwein, INSTALLATION, "NINTH NOVEMBER NIGHT", AT THE MUSEUM LUDWIG

Catalogue "Ninth of November Night"
With the Installation "Ninth of November Night" Gottfried Helnwein wanted to remind us of the "Reichskristallnacht", November 9th to 10th, 1938. He has consciously foregone using documentary archive material. He is chiefly interested in the attitude behind the catastrophe, the roots of the holocaust - the delusion that one is able to measure the worthiness or unworthiness of humans by the form of the nose and ears, by the hair and colour of the eyes. ... +
Gottfried Helnwein, Installation between Museum Ludwig and the Dome of Cologne

Gottfried Helnwein :
GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN, Ninth November Night, Catalogue
Reinhold Mißelbeck

Curator for Photography and new media, Museum Ludwig cologne

It was to our good fortune that Gottfried Helnwein also strove to break away from the museum and gallery sector in order to communicate with a larger public. This appeared on a grand scale on the site between the cathedral and Museum Ludwig, and at a time of "photokina", with its hundreds of thousands of visitors. The 100 metre picture wall did not fail to hit its mark: it induced bewilderment as well as aggressiveness. After a few days numerous pictures had been slashed, one even stolen. Gottfried Helnwein saw the exhibition as a process which would continue and be reflected in later presentations. The pictures were not renewed, but patched up, so that this reminder of the persecution of Jewish people would bear the traces of a lack of insight and understanding in the present day. ... +
Gottfried Helnwein, INSTALLATION, "NINTH NOVEMBER NIGHT", AT THE MUSEUM LUDWIG, cologne

Gottfried Helnwein :
Simon Wiesenthal
Gottfried Helnwein, Ninth November Night, Catalogue

Museum Ludwig Cologne

Not even the children were spared; they, too, fell victim to the destruction.
It was Gottfried Helnwein's most convincing idea to present the consequences to this "period without mercy" in such an unconventional manner. He made no use of photos of heaped corpses; children's portraits force the observer to stop and consider this idea. The fury with which the neo-nazis reacted to these portraits is understandable inasmuch as it is the very same fury with which they have for years been fighting against The Diary of Anne Frank; the murder of children rouses abhorrence and conflict in every human, whether they are motivated by ideology or insanity. The urge to destroy has survived; the portraits bear witness to its rage - an attempt was made to cut them to shreds. "People, please, stop,... look at these children's faces, multiply their number by a few hundred thousand. Only then will you realise or gain an inkling of the extent of this holocaust, of the greatest tragedy in human history!" ... +
Gottfried Helnwein, INSTALLATION, "NINTH NOVEMBER NIGHT", AT THE MUSEUM LUDWIG

Gottfried Helnwein : Helnwein - der Untermensch
Edition Braus
Heidelberg
Peter Gorsen
Self-portraits from 1970 - 1987
Einzelausstellung, Musée d’Art Moderne, Strasbourg
texts by Peter Gorsen and Heiner Müller. ... +

Gottfried Helnwein : self-portrait as sub-human I
Peter Gorsen
"Der Untermensch"

Edition Braus, Heidelberg

Gottfried Helnwein in his self-portraits
Je est un autre, RIMBAUD.
Helnwein compared the "quietly theatrical" ecstatic attitude of his self-portrait with the heroic pose of the figure of the suffering figure of Sebastian and generalizes both to the stigma of the artist in the 20th century, making him a kind of saviour figure. In addition, its poetic title sets the viewer onto the right track. The visual montage of the modern artist as Man of Sorrows with Friedrich's landscape painting projects the dashed hopes of the romantic rebellion into the present, to the protest thinking of modernity, which has become introverted and masochistic, and its crossing of aesthetic boundaries. Is romanticism making a comeback? No; actually, it had never left modernity. But its rebellion is confining and introverting itself in the "body metaphysics" of contemporary artists to its own flesh and blood. ... +
Gottfried Helnwein, One Man Show at the Museum of Modern Art, Strasbourg

Verlag dtv
Germany
William Beckford
eine orientalische Erzählung mit 11 Radierungen von Gottfried Helnwein
Übersetzer: Wolfram Benda
Nachwort von Wolfram Benda
ISBN 3-42302203--5 ... +

Gottfried Helnwein :
Heiner Müller
Selektion - Ninth November Night
English translation
A story by Stephen King. An American schoolboy, twelve or thirteen years old, fascinated in his small-town boredom by documents on the German concentration camps - the way his classmates are by Superman - the formula of his fascination: THEY JUST DID THOSE THINGS...
How does a friendly person like Helnwein stand making his - excellent - painting into a mirror of the terrors of this century? Or is it that he can't stand not doing it? Does his mirror just reflect the attitude of the century? TERROR WITHOUT END IS BETTER THAN AN ENDING IN TERROR. It comes from the over-evaluation of death, a consequence of "statistics" making it taboo. Perseus guillotines the Gorgon in the mirror -, and when the head falls, it is his own.
How many heads does a person/man have in our age of mirrors? ... +
Heiner Müller about Gottfried Helnwein

Gottfried Helnwein : Black Mirror I
Roland Recht
Chief Curator of Museums, Strasbourg
Musée d’Art Moderne, Strasbourg

France

Helnwein, Der Untermensch
From this it may be seen that the Viennese Helnwein is part of a tradition going back to the 18th century, to which Messerschmidt's grimacing sculptures are to belong, on which one of Freud's pupils wrote a long treatise. One sees, too, the common ground of these works with those of Arnulf Rainer or Nitsch, two other Viennese, who display their own bodies in the frame of reference of injury, pain, and death. And one sees how this fascination with body language goes back to the expressive gesture in the work of Egon Schiele. ... +
Gottfried Helnwein, SELF-PORTRAITS

Gottfried Helnwein : Kiss of Judas II (detail)
Peter Gorsen
Albertina Museum, Vienna

Exhibition-catalogue

In addition to sketches of ballet-dancing hares, booted cats, and strangled and stuffed ducks, there are studies or imaginative drawings of the heads of ill-treated children, whose mouths are grotesquely disfigured by braces and pink coloured scars. The grimaces on these mocking distorted faces signalize disobedience, opposition and turmoil, as well as a kind of childlike autonomy in the depraved world of adults. The grin found on the faces of ill-treated children, a grotesque picture puzzle which includes both the martyrdom and subversion of mankind is entirely Helnwein’s invention. It is manifested in the metamorphic images of injured bodies. It is an obsessive pattern which is repeated in Helnwein’s pictoral representation of the world and in his staged artistic actions, serving as a metaphor for the invulnerability and invincibility deeply seated in man. ... +
Gottfried Helnwein, ONE MAN SHOW, ALBERTINA MUSEUM, VIENNA, 1985



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