January 4th, 1985
Helnwein acquires a medieval castle close to Cologne and the Rhine-river, where he lives and works untlil his move to Ireland in 1997

GERMAN PORTRAITS OF PAIN, San Francisco Chronicle

Barnaby Conrad IIIJuly 9, 1992

Frankfurt, Germany. It was night on the Autobahn and I was going to see Gottfried Helnwein, an artist known as "The Razor-Blade Rembrandt." The artist's assistant, Heinz, was pushing the new Mercedes to 100 miles an hour. This unnerving high-speed delivery, on a highway built by Hitler, seemed an appropriate prelude to meeting an Austrian whose art is a biopsy of post-war Germany, with references to resurgent fascism, mass insanity, suicidal depression and childhood trauma
Schloss Burgbrohl
Coat of Arms
Burg Brohl Castle
Helnwein and "Fire-Man"
Helnwein in the studio
Helnwein at work
Helnwein works on "Head of a Child" (Kindskopf)