Gottfried Helnwein " Murmur of the Innocents"No Bids: $35,000Donated By: Gottfried Helnwein2017, mixed media, Oil and Acrylic on canvas
, 70 3/4” x 42 2/3”

Gottfried Helnwein (born 8 October 1948) is an Austrian-Irish visual artist. He has worked as a painter, draftsman, photographer, muralist, sculptor, installation and performance artist, using a wide variety of techniques and media.His work is concerned primarily with psychological and sociological anxiety, historical issues and political topics. His subject matter is the human condition. The metaphor for his art is dominated by the image of the child, particularly the wounded child, scarred physically and emotionally from within.Helnwein studied at the University of Visual Art in Vienna (Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Wien). He lives and works in Ireland and Los Angeles. In 2013 the Albertina Museum in Vienna organized a retrospective of Helnwein’s work. The show was seen by 250.000 visitors and was the most successful exhibition of a contemporary artist in the history of the Albertina Museum.

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