Catalogue cover: Gottfried Helnwein, Head of a Child 5, 1998 ...

Helnwein has accepted commissions from Jewish supremacist groups and produced works which denigrate WWII Germany in the conventional and expected way (though Helnwein's representational and emotional vision has an impact far beyond that of most modern artists), but he has also produced works which are more enigmatic, and seem to embody a Jungian, archetypal, and near-religious conception of that period -- though it is certainly likely that Helnwein is merely "helping" Whites, especially Germans, deal with what he might conceive as "demons within." ...

Helnwein - l-am cautat pe web, www.helnwein.com
Am incercat sa aflu ceva mai mult despre The Boulevard of Broken Dreams, am dat de un blog bizar, ca toate blogurile, Diary of a bar owner on a Mediterranean island describing the often bizarre encounters with the people who roam the area. Return to the Boulevard, Dogville, si tot asa. ...

Sam Beckett, Andre Gide, Albert Camus, and Gore Vidal. I collect contemporary art, mostly representational works on paper. Some of my favorite artists are Richard Serra, Francis Bacon, Gottfried Helnwein, and Gerhard Ricther. ...

The highlight of the trip for me was going to Gottfried Helnwein's studio- Kevin has been drawing Gottfried's daughter, Mercedes Helnwein (her art is great, as well)- and she invited us to her dad's studio event. Mr. Helnwein had just designed the set and costumes for a big opera in Los Angeles, and the Opera put on this event at his studio- it was pretty crazy. The artist's wet dream- THE studio visit, for sure. We walked into the space- there were opera singers performing, pretty rich people abound and Helwein's enormous paintings EVERYWHERE!!! ...

Marie Antoinette, for example, was obsessed with the idea of pretending to be a simple innocent peasant girl. Her husband built her an entire life-sized fantasy farmhouse and mill with sheep, shepherds and all - and an idealistic landscape shaped around it. Dressed in theatrical shepherdess attire, she could now play "innocent country folk" with her girlfriends. ...

In Richard Strauss' opera, aging aristocrat Marschallin beds the young Octavian. But Octavian's a mezzo-soprano, played by a lady in what opera calls a "trouser role." Helnwein just took the trousers out. In the ad, the women's expressions are tender and their lips mere millimeters apart.
Helnwein isn't surprised by the scuttlebutt in the normally staid opera world.
"I'm used to it," Helnwein said. "It always happens with my work. I don't intend it really, but it happens. I think it has to do with the fact that middle class people usually don't want anything to change. If it could, everything would freeze and stay the same way forever. But artists are very annoying, disturbing guys. They always want to change and mess something up. ...

Marilyn Manson se retrouve en couverture du catalogue "Beautiful Children", réunissant les oeuvres de Gottfried Helnwein ... ...

"It was such a great pleasure showing all members of the cast Helnwein's incredible paintings. The girl who plays the "girl in the pit" was particularly impressed by the girl on the cover."
Nava Semel ...

...There is of course the delicious irony in the third act when we have a female playing a male turns around and portrays a female! Even more ironic, the love interests in the opera could hardly be more heterosexual. Besides the fact that the Marschallin and Ochs are cousins, they also enjoy a passion for much younger members of the opposite sex!
I believe this almost fairy tale opera—a Viennese masquerade if you will—has been besmirched by this ad’s misleading dissemblance. The ad credits Gottfried Helnwein for artwork. I see he is also listed as a production manager. I hope you will show him a copy of this letter.
I will see Der Rosenkavalier—my favorite opera—next month, but I will approach it with trepidation. In Gottes Namen, what have you done to this beloved opera? ...