San Francisco Chronicle - Monday August 9 -
Gottfried Helnwein likes to stand shoulder to shoulder with museum patrons when they look at his work, but he doesn't bask in his own glory. ...

The Child: Works by Gottfried Helnwein
31.7. - 28.11.
Fine Arts Museum of San Franscico, 2501 Irving Street (at 26th Avenue) , 94122 San Francisco, CA USA

The Child: Works by Gottfried Helnwein ...

Internationally known Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein will have his first one-man museum exhibition in the United States, opening at the Legion of Honor in the summer of 2004. The exhibition, Gottfried Helnwein: The Child features a major theme that has appeared in his work over the last 35 years. For Helnwein, the child is the symbol of innocence, but also innocence betrayed. In today’s world, the malevolent forces of war, poverty, sexual exploitation, and the numbing predatory influence of modern media assault the virtue of children. Helnwein, who grew up in Austria in the somber atmosphere of a defeated country in the years following World War II, has an emotional tie to children who have been robbed of experiencing childhood without trauma. ...

"... I believe the cure for any depression is expression in your heart, and Gottfried Helnwein was one of the most supportive people towards me. He was the one who gave me that advice, and he was correct with it.
'Personal Jesus' says everything that I would say if I were to write a song right now. I was listening to it on a CD I just bought because I wanted to really take a step away from the world. I wasn't sure if I was going to put out a 'best of' or if I was going to do anything in general with music, because there's a frustration level that the more commercial you are, the more marginal you are - also, the lack of art that exists in entertainment, and the lack of interest. People are much more content with watching The Real World and reality television, than living their own lives, or watching something that comes from imagination.
You know what it is? It's not even Bush's fault. It's America making itself the Third Reich.
Imagination is a necessity, and I don't think it's sort of bad. I can dream up some image like I did with Helnwein, and they're "bad," they're forbidden, but I can take an image that's far worse, that's on CNN and it's reality. So we can't get censored. It's the real world.
But that's a bad message to send to kids growing up, I think.
('The Golden Age of Grotesque':)
...I was not allowed to put the paintings on the cover of the record! Our anticipation was not to create album artwork. We wanted to collaborate and create something together, and we did not consider the Golden Age of Grotesque to be limited to an album.
...All I can say about it is I'm glad that it makes it into the collection of images that represent me as best as it could. I think that it just scratches the surface of what Gottfried and I could do together"
Marilyn Manson
Los Angeles, July 2004 ...

Mit der szenischen Inszenierung des Oratoriums "Das Paradies und die Peri" erwartet das Publikum heute einen glanzvollen Höhepunkt des 8. Düsseldorfer Schumannfestes. Unter der künstlerischen Leitung des Startänzers Gregor Seyffert und der Ausstattung des Künstlers Gottfried Helnwein entsteht eine faszinierende Deutung des 1843 komponierten Werkes. ...

Director, Choreographer: Gregor Seyffert & Compagnie Berlin
Conductor: John Fiore
Sopran: Jörg Waschinski
Düsseldorfer Symphoniker
Chor des Städtischen Musikvereins Düsseldorf ...

An urban oasis — The California Palace of the Legion of Honor is San Francisco's most seductively situated museum
From July 31-Nov. 28, the museum will present paintings, drawings and photographs by Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein. The exhibit, titled "The Child: Works by Gottfried Helnwein," looks at children as innocent, yet exploited. ...

The Times:
"...these photo-paintings appear even more real than a photograph: they are hyper-real, super-saturated depictions of the world that surrounds us, as we would like to see it. Helnwein’s landscapes offer us the world as we see it in our mind’s eye, our memories.
What is certain is that with these works Helnwein has raised the bar for artists to come with art that is groundbreaking in terms of scale, skill and vision. Painted mountains, fields and sky can never be the same again." ...

1979: Protesta contra el psiquiatra forense número uno de Austria, Dr. Gross, que admitió en una entrevista que en la era Nazi, él había envenenado a centenares de niños.
1985: Se muda a Alemania, vive y trabaja en un castillo cerca de Cologne, comienzan a producir los cuadros que se componen de varias piezas, Helnwein examina de cerca áreas del taboo y aborda términos tales como arte sub-humana, degenerada y vida indigna de vida. En este mismo año Rudolf Hausner propone a Helnwein como su sucesor y como cabecilla de los profesores para los pintores en la academia de artes visuales en Viena. ...

Internationally known Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein will have his first one-man museum exhibition in the United States, opening at the Legion of Honor in the summer of 2004. The exhibition, The Child: Works by Gottfried Helnwein features a major theme that has appeared in his work over the last 35 years. For Helnwein, the child is the symbol of innocence, but also innocence betrayed. In today's world, the malevolent forces of war, poverty, sexual exploitation, and the numbing predatory influence of modern media assault the virtue of children. Helnwein, who grew up in Austria in the somber atmosphere of a defeated country in the years following World War II, has an emotional tie to children who have been robbed of experiencing childhood without trauma. ...

* Helnwein's Epiphany I has been up on our site for years now. For a while I used it as wallpaper on my desktop. Perhaps that explains how the first hypertext poem came to be one about the Virgin. But as I struggled with updating the site, I checked all my old resources and came across materials that explain Helnwein's commitments and meanings far better than I could alone. ...

(20.06. - 18.07.04)
Die Fotografieausstellung zeigt Portraits, welche die Künstler Dennis Adams, Nabuyoshi Araki, Christian Boltanski, Jochen Gerz, Gottfried Helnwein, Pjotr Uklanski, August Sander zu dokumentarischen, historischen oder künstlerischen Themen gesammelt haben.
Gottfried Helnwein portraitiert in der Serie „Faces“ Persönlichkeiten wie Michael Jackson, Willy Brandt, Maximilian Schell, Elton John, Andy Warhol, Leni Riefenstahl u.a.. Obgleich vielmals zuvor fotografiert und jedem aus den Medien bekannt, zeigen sie sich in den Bildern jenseits aller Eitelkeiten, in einer ungewohnten Offenheit und Ehrlichkeit, die geprägt ist von Verfall und Tod. ...

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Helnwein, Dr.: Wiener Exorzist und Parapsychologe, der gelegentlich mit Dorian zusammenarbeitete. Seit seinem Tod nutzt das Dämonenkiller-Team ab und zu das Haus Helnweins und die Reliquien, die sich darin befinden. Siehe auch Heftroman 23, EA: "Jagt die Satansbrut". ...

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Goethe- und Schiller- Archiv
Gottfried Helnwein Archiv
Hausarbeitenarchiv des Unispiegel
Heinrich- Böll- Archiv der Stadtbibliothek Köln
Heinrich-Böll-Archiv
Holderlins-Archiv
Institut der Deutschen Sprache ...

Unremitting Failure doesn't know diddly about the finer points of Art. But we know this: if it has a little girl holding a gun in it, it's Art. This fabulous example of Art has been brought to you by Gottfried Helnwein. ...

group show ...

De Close Up documentaire ‘Donald Duck: Meer Dan een Eend’ onderzoekt het succes en de blijvende aantrekkingskracht van de wereldberoemde eend. Waarom is hij in Europa populairder dan in de Verenigde Staten? Wat is het geheim van de twee turven hoge antiheld? Waarom zijn zoveel kunstenaars dol op deze eend?
In de documentaire laten kunstenaars, wetenschappers en kenners hun licht schijnen over het fenomeen Duck. Kunstenaar Gottfried Helnwein noemt Donald Duck de belangrijkste ontwikkeling uit de kunstgeschiedenis. ...

(Auktionsstück)
Art. Nr.: 278
Eingeordnet in:
Ölgemälde und Aquarelle
Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts ...