Gottfried Helnwein | IRELAND | Ireland Special | HELNWEIN WORKS ON "HEAD OF A CHILD 5"

One piece of public art he did in 1988 - funded fully by himself, after he failed to raise sponsorship - commemorated the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht. "Again, what amazed me was that nobody talked about it - and yet that was when the horror really started."

"I wanted to do it in front of the Dome in Cologne, but the City prevented it. But there was this little strip of land which belonged to the railways, and a guy who worked there said, 'go ahead'. I didn't want to use these historic photographs which are used too often - those mountains of corpses mean nothing anymore - so I used four metre high children's faces. I photographed children from the area, foreign children, German children, Jews, anything." Mounted in a long billboard line, after the huge word "Selection", the children's faces were powdered in a deathly, bruised way, many with their eyes closed. That may sound subtle, but in the context of muted German Holocaust memorials, it was like a slap in the face. Despite CCTV video-cameras, someone painstakingly sliced the throats of every single child-portrait. ...


	01. noviembre 2000 Ireland HELNWEIN WORKS ON "HEAD OF A CHILD 5" ...


	16. febrero 2000 The Irish Times Mic Moroney THE BLOODSTAINED FÜHRER The controversial work of Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein, now resident in Ireland, explores the lingering Austrian loyalty to Nazism. He speaks to Mic Moroney. One piece of public art he did in 1988 - funded fully by himself, after he failed to raise sponsorship - commemorated the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht. "Again, what amazed me was that nobody talked about it - and yet that was when the horror really started." "I wanted to do it in front of the Dome in Cologne, but the City prevented it. But there was this little strip of land which belonged to the railways, and a guy who worked there said, 'go ahead'. I didn't want to use these historic photographs which are used too often - those mountains of corpses mean nothing anymore - so I used four metre high children's faces. I photographed children from the area, foreign children, German children, Jews, anything." Mounted in a long billboard line, after the huge word "Selection", the children's faces were powdered in a deathly, bruised way, many with their eyes closed. That may sound subtle, but in the context of muted German Holocaust memorials, it was like a slap in the face. Despite CCTV video-cameras, someone painstakingly sliced the throats of every single child-portrait. ...


	2000 Ireland HELNWEIN WORKS ON THE "ANGELS SLEEPING" -PAINTINGS ...


	2000 Ireland Helnwein studio SIR JAMES R. MANCHAM, PRESIDENT OF THE REBUBLIC OF SEYCHELLES VISITS GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN IN IRELAND Accopanied by Hans Janitschek, President of the United Nations Society of Writers & Artists ...


	1999 project @ the mint Henry Place, off Henry Street, Dublin 1 Ireland ELECTROSHOCK A Theatre of Cruelty Season Project Arts Centre ...


	1998 Ireland Studio HELNWEIN WORKS ON "EPIPHANY III, (PRESENTATION AT THE TEMPLE) ...


	01. agosto 1997 Ireland HELNWEIN MOVES TO IRELAND ...