1. Gottfried Helnwein was born on 8 October 1948 and is an Austrian-Irish visual artist.
23 Facts About Gottfried Helnwein
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Gottfried Helnwein has worked as a painter, draftsman, photographer, muralist, sculptor, installation and performance artist, using a wide variety of techniques and media.
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Gottfried Helnwein's work is concerned primarily with psychological and sociological anxiety, historical issues and political topics.
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Gottfried Helnwein has partnered with Marilyn Manson in the production of The Golden Age of Grotesque and other projects.
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Gottfried Helnwein studied at the University of Visual Art in Vienna.
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Gottfried Helnwein was born in Vienna shortly after World War II.
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Gottfried Helnwein's father Joseph Helnwein worked for the Austrian Post and Telegraphy administration, and his mother Margarethe was a housewife.
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Gottfried Helnwein has four children with his wife Renate: Cyril, Mercedes, Ali Elvis and Wolfgang Amadeus, all of whom are artists.
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Gottfried Helnwein was awarded a Master-class prize of the University of Visual Art, Vienna, the Kardinal-Konig prize and the Theodor-Korner prize.
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Gottfried Helnwein was offered a chair by the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in 1982.
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In 1983, Gottfried Helnwein met Andy Warhol in his Factory in New York City, who posed for a series of photo-sessions.
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Gottfried Helnwein bought a medieval castle close to Cologne and the Rhine-river.
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Gottfried Helnwein moved to Dublin, Ireland, in 1997 and one year later he bought the Castle Gurteen de la Poer in County Waterford.
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The wedding was officiated by surrealist film director Alejandro Jodorowsky Gottfried Helnwein was best man.
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Gottfried Helnwein is part of a tradition going back to the 18th century, to which Messerschmidt's grimacing sculptures belong.
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Gottfried Helnwein appears as a screaming man, mirroring the frightening aspects of life: a twentieth-century Man of Sorrows.
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Gottfried Helnwein's frozen cry, showing the artist in a state of implacable trauma, recalls Edvard Munch's Scream and Francis Bacon's screaming popes.
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Some of Gottfried Helnwein's grimacing faces recall the grotesque physiognomic distortions by the eighteenth-century Viennese sculptor Franz Xavier Messerschmidt.
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Gottfried Helnwein has sensed the superiority of cartoon life over real life ever since he was a child.
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In 2000, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art presented Gottfried Helnwein's painting "Mouse I" at the exhibition The Darker Side of Playland: Childhood Imagery from the Logan Collection.
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Gottfried Helnwein's Mickey is painted in shades of gray, as if pictured on an old black-and-white TV set.
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Gottfried Helnwein confronts the passersby with larger-than-life children's faces lined up in a seemingly endless row, as if for concentration camp selection.
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Gottfried Helnwein consciously left the panels with the gashes and included them in the presentation, as he believed that they made the work stronger and more relevant.