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)