Q:How can you explain the artistic cruelty of your cover art works? Why is there so much pain and suffering on them? Where is the border between art and cruelty?
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A:We like to arise controversies and that is why already on the second album we decided to choose the photographs of Helnwein for our cover artwork. We really like his attitude towards art and the way he showed us. It turned out that a band picture can be something different, a real art, and not just another common, boring shot of a few people. ...

originally appeared in: HELNWEIN, Gottfried. Wer ist Carl Barks. Radolfszell: Neff Verlag, 1993. (p. 238-241)
Carl Barks
His Work and
His Life
"My greatest source of enjoyment in Carl Barks' comics is in the imagination of his stories. They're so full of crazy ideas - unique and special..." George Lucas! ...

Indepth Arts News:
..Alfred Kubin's Kuss (Kiss) is also expected to cause quite a stir in the room. The ink drawing of 1903 is probably a reaction to the sudden death of the artist's fiance Emmy Bayer. The profound work on hand-made paper is estimated at DM 12,000 - 15,000.
Slightly higher is the estimate for a work by Gottfried Helnwein which was made around 1982 and is expected to fetch DM 18,000 - 20,000. One year earlier the artist began with a series about Helden (Heros) of today, which include the extraterrestrial E.T. from Steven Spielberg's film. With his smoking E.T. Helnwein defies art by making a mass-media fantasy figure, the hero of countless children, into an object worthy of depiction.
Completely detached is Georges Braque's Grand oiseau bleu floating in the sky. The colour lithograph is estimated at DM 14,000 - 16,000. ...

A controversial "Nazi" image by artist Gottfried Helnwein was daubed with red paint last week as Kilkenny Arts Festival entered its final days. Another Helnwein print, of a local girl, was set on fire and extensively damaged.

A spokesman for the festival said they were "disappointed and saddened" that the images had been attacked. He said Mr Helnwein's work had provoked a strong reaction throughout the festival. "There have been a lot of positive comments but there has been negative reaction as well."
The images have been a major talking point since before the festival began. A former mayor of the city, Mr Paul Cuddihy, initially objected to a painting being hung on the City Hall for fear it might be misinterpreted as lending support to Nazism. After meeting Mr Helnwein at his studio in Co Tipperary, however, Mr Cuddihy said the artist's work was "astonishingly good".

Kilkenny Arts Festival said the artist had a long and acknowledged record of taking a firm stand against Nazism and fascism. ...

The major art works of Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein, at Kilkenny Castle, Butler House and throughout the city are beautiful, prosaic, sinister, grotesque, unusual and ordinary and provoked a lot of discussion and disgust.

A controversial mural by Austrian artist, Gottfried Helnwein has been damaged at the Kilkenny Arts Festival.
Huge canvases of his work, depicting images of Nazi soldiers staring adoringly at modern Madonna and Child figures, were displayed on various buildings in Kilkenny during the festival.
One of the murals hanging at the front of Kilkenny castle had paint thrown at it sometime during the night.
Another picture by Mr Helnwein, featuring a young Kilkenny girl, was also partially damaged in another part of the town. ...

The visual focal point of the arts festival has to be Gottfried Helnwein's huge photographic images displayed on the streets of Kilkenny. Originally from Austria, Helnwein is now based in County Tipperary. His display of works on the streets of Kilkenny, and in Butler House, is testament to the power of this man's visual imagery. Helnwein's concerns could be viewed on a political level, indeed in his own homeland his work has been hounded by controversy, as he directly pinpoints neo-Nazi neuroses.
'Epiphany I: Adoration of the Magi' depicts a beautiful Madonna and Child being examined by Himmler's elite SS officers. This is strong stuff, with piercing connotations on the interaction of religion, politics and power in the 20th century. Juxtaposed with these images are a series of enlarged photographs of children's faces from Kilkenny. Hung in the same manner as billboard advertisements on buildings and walls, these photographs, with their silent, shut-eyed subjects, are meditative comments on life in the making. ...

Workmen finish one of a series of prints measuring 9.3 metres by 6.2 metres by Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein.The prints of Kilkenny children will hang on buildings in Kilkenny as parts of its arts festival beginning on August 10th. ...

Una sociedad intolerante formada por padres que abusan de sus hijos y líderes políticos que ejercen de dictadores es lo que podremos ver en Kleines Helnwein, el espectáculo que el argentino Rodrigo M. Malmsten presenta en el Grec.
Inspirada en la estética del pintor austriaco Gottfried Helnwein, autor de obras que denuncian una sociedad oscura e hipócrita, para Kleines Helnwein Malmsten ha escrito un texto fragmentario, no realista, en el que el espectador advierte que el personaje que es una víctima se convierte en verdugo. ...

Strawinskys “The Rake´s Progress” hat am 10.06.
unter Flimm /Helnwein/ Metzmacher Premiere
» Flimm hat gemeinsam mit Helnwein, der auch die witzigen, farcenhaft übersteigerten Kostüme entworfen hat, am Bühnenbild gefeilt. «Die kleine Bühne macht die Figuren sehr stark. Und passend zu dem plakativen Stück hat Helnwein großformatig Videos und Dias mit Großstadtszenen und verzerrten Gesichtern in den Raum projiziert.» ...

Handiscoop: Welke foto’s fascineerden uzelf het meest?
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Patrick: Ik ben onwaarschijnlijk onder de indruk van de foto van Gottfried Helnwein: een nostalgisch beeld van een jongen die aan het bidden is tot zijn God, Donald Duck. Alleen de aandachtige kijker ziet dat deze biddende jongen zijn handen niet kan samenvouwen. Zijn handen bestaan namelijk uit prothesen. ...

self-disciple эряшёры :
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20-05-2001 18:52:32
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20-05-2001 18:57:09
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Magnific!!!, March 1, 2001
Reviewer: Nuno Miguel B Gonçalves from Leiria, Portugal
The work of Helnwein is simply one of the best i've ever seen!! The subject, the form, the color, the talent, everything makes for Helnwein to be one of the best artists in recent years, the book depicts well his work with superb photos, good reviews, a concise text not at all snobish. A great buy, good value for money!!! ...

Kleines Helnwein, la premiada obra de Rodrigo Malmsten que encuentra a la actriz Belén Blanco en una performance superlativa, vuelve fugazmente al Callejón de los Deseos. El teatro off recobra, así, una obra tenebrosa y genial. Opinión: Excelente. ...

Saturday, April 07, 2001
-Gottfried Helnwein
The Temptation of Joseph Beuys
Colored pencil on paper
1993
Gottfried Helnwein
posted by Her Daintiness the Aesthetic Curmudgeon Realness at 5:08 PM
What,YOU got something ta say?! ...

Cette photographie peu connue de Michael est l'oeuvre de l'autrichien Gottfried Helnwein. Elle a été réalisée en 1988 alors que Michael était de passage en Allemagne durant son Bad Tour. Cette photographie a aussi fait partie de l'exposition appelée "Faces" présentée par Helnwein au Stadtmuseum de Munich en 1992.
En plus d'être photographe, Gottfried Helnwein est également un peintre et un sculpteur reconnu pour sa vision très particulière de l'époque nazie et pour ses images sur la souffrance et la douleur chez les enfants qui dérangent profondément l'âme...
Deux oeuvres de cet artiste sont incluses dans le livret qui accompagne l'album History de Michael... ...

This image is one of over 118,000 from The Art Museum Image Consortium Library (The AMICO Library™), a growing online collection of high-quality, digital art images from 39 museums around the world.

Creator Name: Gottfried Helnwein
Creator Nationality: European; Central European; Austrian
Title: Self-Portrait
Creation Date: 1993
Object Type: Drawings and Watercolors
Materials and Techniques: Colored pencil
Contributor: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Owner Location: San Francisco, California, USA
Credit Line: Museum Purchase, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts Endowment Fund ...

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Helnwein, Gottfried
Gespräch mit dem Kunsthistoriker Andreas Mäckler. Das bisher umfangreichste Interview fand statt am 13-14. Juli und 21-22. September 1990.
http://www.gottfried-helnwein-interview.com
En nueva ventana ...

Austrian born artist Gottfried Helnwein's work is also of exemplary value, beginning with bandage action events (documented by the artist appearing in cafe's and lying in the street with his "wounded" head and face bandaged). His work depicts physical injuries which are metaphors for far deeper existential, psychological and human tragedies. Medical injuries, facial deformities and abused children proliferate throughout his work evoking primary internal anxieties. The inhumane acts of violence (child abuse, war atrocities, state oppression) and frightening images of familial estrangement that are presented in his work, constitute events which are preferred forgotten, like the nazi era, or preferred left unspoken such as familial traumas like child abuse. Helnwein also conducts a probing analysis of the individual and the self through an abundance of self portraits, each obscured by hideous facial bandages, his facial muscles, lips and eyes are stretched apart, torturingly, by varied medical instruments, now made famous by the Rammstein covers. All his images in some way evoke associations with mutilation, anguish or internal alienation. The works (frequently paintings appearing remarkably like photographs), boldly put forward social unacceptabilities never before portrayed so lucidly and so confrontingly. The many intensities produced in the work are profoundly disturbing, the impressions - uncomfortably eerie, electrocuting the eyes with a rush of haunting spatiality. ...