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GOTTFRID HELNWEIN Born: Vienna, Austria, 1948,
Helnwein was born in Vienna and ranks among the best-known, but also most disputed German-speaking artists after World War II.
He studied at the University of Visual Art in Vienna (Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Wien). He was awarded the Master-class prize (Meisterschulpreis) of the University of Visual Art, Vienna, the Kardinal-König prize and the Theodor-Körner prize.
He has worked as a painter, draftsman, photographer, muralist, sculptor, installation- and performance artist, using a wide variety of techniques and media.
His early work consists mainly of hyper-realistic watercolors, depicting wounded children, as well as performances - often with children - in public spaces. Helnwein is a conceptual artist, concerned primarily with psychological and sociological anxiety, historical issues and political topics. As a result of this, his work is often considered provocative and controversial.
Viennese-born Helnwein is part of a tradition going back to the 18th century, to which Messerschmidt's grimacing sculptures belong. One sees, too, the common ground of his works with those of Hermann Nitsch and Rudolf Schwarzkogler, two other Viennese, who display their own bodies in the frame of reference of injury, pain, and death. One can also see this fascination for body language goes back to the expressive gesture in the work of Egon Schiele.
Helnwein’s subject matter involves the complexities of the human condition. His disturbing yet provocative images of physically and emotionally wounded children have been seen as metaphors for larger global issues. He portrays the innocence of adolescence against the backdrop of historical events like the Holocaust to highlight the fragility of humanity in an unstable world.
The Child
A clarity of vision in his subject matter was emerging in Helnwein's art that was to stay consistent throughout his career. His subject matter is the human condition. The metaphor for his art, although it included self-portraits, is dominated by the image of the child, but not the carefree innocent child of popular imagination. Helnwein instead created the profoundly disturbing yet compellingly provocative image of the wounded child. The child scarred physically and the child scarred emotionally from within.
In 2004 The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco organized the first one-person exhibition of Gottfried Helnwein at an American Museum: "The Child, works by Gottfried Helnwein" at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor. The show was seen by almost 130,000 visitors and the San Francisco Chronicle quoted it the most important exhibition of a contemporary artist in 2004. Steven Winn, Chronicle Arts and Culture Critic, wrote: "Helnwein's large format, photo-realist images of children of various demeanors boldly probed the subconscious. Innocence, sexuality, victimization and haunting self-possession surge and flicker in Helnwein's unnerving work".
Harry S.Parker III, Director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco explained what makes Helnwein’s art significant: "For Helnwein, the child is the symbol of innocence, but also of innocence betrayed. In today’s world, the malevolent forces of war, poverty, and sexual exploitation and the numbing, predatory influence of modern media assault the virtue of children. Robert Flynn Johnson, the curator in charge, has assembled a thought-provoking selection of Helnwein’s works and provided an insightful essay on his art. Helnwein’s work concerning the child includes paintings, drawings, and photographs, and it ranges from subtle inscrutability to scenes of stark brutality. Of course, brutal scenes—witness The Massacre of the Innocents—have been important and regularly visited motifs in the history of art. What makes Helnwein’s art significant is its ability to make us reflect emotionally and intellectually on the very expressive subjects he chooses. Many people feel that museums should be a refuge in which to experience quiet beauty divorced from the coarseness of the world. This notion sells short the purposes of art, the function of museums, and the intellectual curiosity of the public. The Child: Works by Gottfried Helnwein will inspire and enlighten many; it is also sure to upset some. It is not only the right but the responsibility of the museum to present art that deals with important and sometimes controversial topics in our society".
Comics and Trivial Art
Another strong element in his work are comics. Helnwein has sensed the superiority of cartoon life over real life ever since he was a child. A magazine interview brought out an explanation of his obsession with Disney characters. Growing up in dreary, destructed post-war Vienna, the young boy was surrounded by unsmiling people haunted by a recent past they could never speak about. What changed his life was the first German-language Donald Duck comic book that his father brought home one day. Opening the book felt like finally arriving in a world where he belonged: "...a decent world where one could get flattened by steam-rollers and perforated by bullets without serious harm. A world in which the people still looked proper, with yellow beaks or black knobs instead of noses." (Helnwein.
In 2000 the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art presented Helnwein's painting "Mouse I" (1995, oil and acrylic on canvas, 210 cm x 310 cm) at the exhibition The Darker Side of Playland: Childhood Imagery from the Logan Collection. Alicia Miller commented on Helnwein's work in Artweek: "In 'The Darker Side of Playland', the endearing cuteness of beloved toys and cartoon characters turns menacing and monstrous. Much of the work has the quality of childhood nightmares. In those dreams, long before any adult understanding of the specific pains and evils that live holds, the familiar and comforting objects and images of a child's world are rent with something untoward. For children, not understanding what really to be afraid of, these dreams portend some pain and disturbance lurking into the landscape. Perhaps nothing in the exhibition exemplifies this better than Gottfried Helnwein's 'Mickey'. His portrait of Disney's favorite mouse occupies an entire wall of the gallery; rendered from an oblique angle, his jaunty, ingenuous visage looks somehow sneaky and suspicious. His broad smile, encasing a row of gleaming teeth, seems more a snarl or leer. This is Mickey as Mr. Hyde, his hidden other self now disturbingly revealed. Helnwein's Mickey is painted in shades of gray, as if pictured on an old black-and-white TV set. We are meant to be transported to the flickering edges of our own childhood memories in a time imaginably more blameless, crime-less and guiltless. But Mickey's terrifying demeanor hints of things to come...".
Although Helnwein's work is rooted in the legacy of German expressionism, he has absorbed elements of American pop culture. In the 70s he began to include cartoon characters in his paintings. In several interviews he claimed: "I learned more from Donald Duck than from all the schools that I have ever attended." Commenting on that aspect in Helnwein's work, Julia Pascal wrote in the New Statesman: "His early watercolor Peinlich (Embarrassing)- shows a typical little 1950s girl in a pink dress and carrying a comic book. Her innocent appeal is destroyed by the gash deforming her cheek and lips. It is as if Donald Duck had met Mengele".
Living between Los Angeles and Ireland, Helnwein met and photographed the Rolling Stones in London, and his portrait of John F Kennedy made the front cover of Time magazine on the 20th anniversary of the president's assassination. His Self-portrait as screaming bandaged man, blinded by forks (1982) became the cover of the Scorpions album Blackout. Andy Warhol, Muhammad Ali, William Burroughs and the German industrial metal band Rammstein posed for him; some of his art-works appeared in the cover-booklet of Michael Jackson's History album. Referring to the fall of the Berlin Wall Helnwein created the book Some Facts about Myself, together with Marlene Dietrich. In 2003 he became friends with Marilyn Manson and started a collaboration with him on the multi-media art-project The Golden Age of Grotesque and on several experimental video-projects.
Examining his imagery from the 1970s to the present, one sees influences as diverse as Bosch, Goya, John Heartfield, Beuys and Mickey Mouse, all filtered through a postwar Viennese childhood. 'Helnwein’s oeuvre embraces total antipodes: The trivial alternates with visions of spiritual doom, the divine in the child contrasts with horror-images of child-abuse. But violence remains to be his basic theme, - the physical and the emotional suffering, inflicted by one human being unto another.'
Self-Portraits
The self-portrait for the artist's blindfolded unbent head covered with blood occurs twice in Helnwein's triptych The Silent Glow of the Avant-garde (1986). The middle panel shows an enlarged reproduction of Caspar David Friedrich's The sea of Ice, a depiction of a catastrophe of 1823/24 which is generally interpreted as a romantic allegory of the force of nature overpowering all human effort . Helnwein compared the "quietly theatrical" ecstatic attitude of his self-portrait with the heroic pose of the figure of the suffering figure of Sebastian and generalizes both to the stigma of the artist in the 20th century, making him a kind of saviour figure. In addition, its poetic title sets the viewer onto the right track. The visual montage of the modern artist as Man of Sorrows with Friedrich's landscape painting projects the dashed hopes of the romantic rebellion into the present, to the protest thinking of modernity, which has become introverted and masochistic, and its crossing of aesthetic boundaries. Is romanticism making a comeback? - No; actually, it had never left modernity. But its rebellion is confining and introverting itself in the "body metaphysics" of contemporary artists to its own flesh and blood. Thus, the comeback of romanticism leads for Helnwein, too, to stressing just one of its partial aspects, the stylizing in the form of a self-portrait of a protest introverted to martyrdom which historically was once linked in a contradictory way with social opposition, rebellion, and utopia.
References to the Holocaust
Mitchell Waxman wrote 2004, in The Jewish Journal, Los Angeles: "The most powerful images that deal with Nazism and Holocaust themes are by Anselm Kiefer and Helnwein, although, Kiefer’s work differs considerably from Helnwein’s in his concern with the effect of German aggression on the national psyche and the complexities of German cultural heritage. Kiefer is known for evocative and soulful images of barren German landscapes. But Kiefer and Helnwein’s work are both informed by the personal experience of growing up in a post-war German speaking country... William Burroughs said that the American Revolution begins in books and music, and political operatives implement the changes after the fact. To this maybe we can add art. And Helnwein's art might have the capacity to instigate change by piercing the veil of political correctness to recapture the primitive gesture inherent in art.".
One of the most famous paintings of Helnwein's oeuvre is Epiphany I - Adoration of the Magi, (1996, oil and acrylic on canvas, 210 cm x 333cm, collection of the Denver Art Museum). It is part of a series of three paintings: Epiphany I, Epiphany II (Adoration of the Shepherds), Epiphany III (Presentation at the Temple), created between 1996 and 1998. In Epiphany I, SS officers surround a mother and child group. To judge by their looks and gestures, they appear to be interested in details such as head, face, back and genitals. The arrangement of the figures clearly relates to motive and iconography of the adoration of the three Magi, such as were common especially in the German, Italian and Dutch 15th century artworks. Julia Pascal wrote about this work in the New Statesman: "This Austrian Catholic Nativity scene has no Magi bearing gifts. Madonna and child are encircled by five respectful Waffen SS officers palpably in awe of the idealised, blonde Virgin. The Christ toddler, who stands on Mary's lap, stares defiantly out of the canvas." Helnwein's baby Jesus is often considered to represent Adolf Hitler.
Works for the Stage
Helnwein is also known for his stage and costume designs for theater, ballet and opera productions. Amongst them: "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare, (director, choreographer: Johann Kresnik) , Theater Heidelberg, 1988, Volksbühne Berlin, 1995; "The Persecution and Murder of Jean Paul Marat, Performed by the Drama Group of the Hospice at Charenton, under Direction of Monsieur de Sade" by Peter Weiss, (director: Johann Kresnik), Stuttgart National Theatre, 1989; "Pasolini, Testament des Körpers", (director: Johann Kresnik), Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, 1996; "Hamletmaschine" by Heiner Müller, (director: Gert Hof), 47. Berliner Festwochen, Berlin 1997, Muffathalle, München, 1997; "The Rake's Progress" by Igor Stravinsky, (director: Jürgen Flimm), at Hamburg State Opera, 2001; "Paradise and the Peri", oratorio by Robert Schumann, (director, choreographer: Gregor Seyffert & Compagnie Berlin), Robert-Schumann-Festival 2004, Tonhalle Düsseldorf; Der Rosenkavalier" by Richard Strauss, (director: Maximilian Schell) at Los Angeles Opera, 2005,[23] and Israeli Opera Tel Aviv, 2006;"Der Ring des Nibelungen, part I, Rheingold und Walküre", choreographic theatre after Richard Wagner, (director, choreographer: Johann Kresnik), Oper Bonn, 2006; "Der Ring des Nibelungen, part II, Siegfried und Götterdämmerung", director, choreographer: Johann Kresnik), Oper Bonn, 2008.
Personal life
Helnwein was born in Vienna. He has four children with his wife Renate: Cyril, Mercedes, Ali Elvis and Wolfgang Amadeus, who are all artists. Helnwein lived in Vienna till 1984, then he moved to Germany where he lived and worked till 1997. In 1997 he moved to Dublin, Ireland. In 1998 he bought castle Gurteen de La Poer in County Tipperary where he now lives with his family. Since 2001 he also has a studio in Los Angeles. In 2004 Helnwein received Irish citizenship. On December 3, 2005, Marilyn Manson and Dita Von Teese were married in a private, non-denominational ceremony at Helnwein's castle. The wedding was officiated by surrealist film director and comic book writer Alejandro Jodorowsky, Gottfried Helnwein was best man. They exchanged vows in front of approximately 60 guests, including Lisa Marie Presley. The wedding pictures appeared in the March 2006 edition of Vogue under the heading "The Bride Wore Purple".
Prizes and Awards
* 1970 Maste-class award, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
* 1971 Kardinal-König-Preis
* 1974 Theodor-Körner-Preis
* 1984 Adolf-Grimme-Award for the Television documentary „Helnwein“ (ZDF/ORF, National German and National Austrian Television)
* 2006 The Council of the City of Philadelphia honors and recognizes the artistic contributions of Gottfried Helnwein in keeping the memory of the Holocaust alive.
* 2006 Governor Erwin Pröll appoints Gottfried Helnwein Honorable Ambassador of the state of Lower Austria.
* 2007 "Goose Egg Nugget Award" of the Carl-Barks Society, in Recognition of Significant Artistic Contributions to the Disney Duck Genre and the Carl Barks Legacy.
BIOGRAPHY: 2010 One man show, Crocker Art Museum Sacramento, California 2009 One man show, Friedman Benda Gallery, New York "The Disasters of War II", one man show, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco One man show, Central European House of Photography, Slovakia, Österreichisches Kulturforum in Bratislava. "Ninth November Night", Installation by Gottfried Helnwein, Philadelphia 2008 "Kunst nach 1970", group show, Albertina Museum Vienna "The last Child", Installation by Gottfried Helnwein throughout the City of Waterford, Ireland "Angels Sleeping", one-man show, Galerie,Rudolfinum, Prague "I walk Alone", Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery, San Jose. State University "Art in Ireland", Fenton Gallery, Cork, Ireland "All's Fair in Art and War: Envisioning Conflict", 21C Museum, Louisville, Kentucky Stage and Costumes for "Der Ring des Nibelungen II", by Richard Wagner, Opera Bonn, director Johann Kresnik The ADAA art show at the Armory New York City, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco "Out of Shape - Stylistic Distortions of the Human Form in Art, from the Logan Collection", Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center,Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY "Prints", one man show, Greyfriars Municipial Art Gallery, Waterford City, Ireland "Lichtspuren", group show, Lentos Museum of Modern Art Linz 2007 "The Disasters of War, In memory of Francisco de Goya", one-man show, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco "Death Valley" (2002 - 2006, oil and acrylic on canvas, 120 x 774 cm) is permanently displayed in the Governor's Council Room at the Capitol in Sacramento, California "Rembrandt to Thiebaud: a Decade of Collecting Works on Paper", group show, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, De Young "Artists on Art: From Any Angle", - Logan Lectures 2007 features lectures by ten contemporary artists" - Gottfried Helnwein at the Denver Art Museum Photographic Bogota - group show, International Biennial of Photography, Fotomuseo -The National Museum of Photography "Passion for Art - 35 Jahre Essl Museum", group show, Essl Museum, Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg, Vienna "Concept: Photography- Dialogue & Attitudes. From the Traditional Forms of Photography to Auteur Photography", group show, Ludwig Museum Budapest, Museum of Contemporary Art "Once upon a Time Walt Disney: Disney recycled by Contemporary Art", group show, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts "Body Anxious", group show, Cressman Center Gallery, The University of Louisville - Department of Fine Arts "Angels Sleeping", one-man show, Waterford Greyfriars Municipial Art Gallery, Waterford Fringe Festival, Ireland "Die Kunst der Verführung, von Schiele bis Warhol", group show, Sammlung Infeld, Minoriten Kloster Tulln, Austria The Helnwein Virtual Museum of Art opened in "Second Life." on May 7th 2007 "Life as a Legend", group show, The Dayton Art Institute Gottfried Helnwein curated and organized the retrospective "Donald Duck, ...und die Ente ist Mensch geworden - Das zeichnerische und poetische Werk von Carl Barks." Karikaturmuseum, Krems, Austria "The Big Store", group show, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin "Where is Mummy?" group show, Städtische Galerie Theodor von Hörmann, Imst, Tirol, Austria "Memory XS", Eine Ausstellungsinstallation über Wolfgang Bauer, group show, MAK Ausstellungshalle, Vienna 2006 "Face it", one-man show, Lentos Museum of Modern Art, Linz "Radar", group show, The Logan Collection, Denver Art Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art "Los Caprichos", one-man show, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco "Looking Now", group show, 21c Museum, Louisville, Kentucky Stage and costumes for "Der Ring des Nibelungen, part I, Rheingold, Walküre" by Richard Wagner. Opera Bonn, director Johann Kresnik "II était une fois Walt Disney", works inspired by the characters and aesthetic of Walt Disney, group show, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais Paris "Post Modern Portraiture from the Logan Collection", group show, Logan Museum Vail One-man show, Fenton Gallery, Cork, Ireland One-man show, Galerie Brockstedt Berlin FotoFest 2006, Houston. The Eleventh International Biennial of Photography and Photo-Related Art, "Helnwein - Diary of the Artist Against Violence" group show, 2005 "Beautiful Children", one-man show, Galerie Ludwig Schloss Oberhausen and Wilhelm-Busch Museum, Hannover "In Limbo", group show, from the collection of Kent and Vicki Logan and the Denver Art Museum. The University of Denver's Victoria H. Myhren Gallery
"Arte Contemporá nee Austriaco y Pintura de la Posguerra: Colección Essl", group show, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (Marco), México "The Other Mainstream", selections from the Collection of Mikki and Stanley Welthorn. group show, The Katherine K. Herberger College of Fine Arts at Arizona State University "Andy Warhol, Dale Chihuly, Vincent Van Gogh, Gottfried Helnwein and Diego Rivers", group show, Arkansas Arts Center "Superstars: Zum Prinzip Prominenz in der Kunst, von Warhol bis Madonna", group show, Kunsthalle Wien and Kunstforum, Vienna "Ninth November Night", Gottfried Helnwein - Documentary. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science, Beverly Hills, California "Soul", Museum of Modern Art, Ostend, Belgium. Installation: Fall of the Angels Cooperation with Maximilian Schell on the opera "Der Rosenkavalier" by Richard Strauss for the Los Angeles Opera. (Set, costumes, make-up, video, lighting). Conductor Kent Nagano Cooperation with Marylin Manson on the film-project "Phantasmagoria - The Visions of Lewis Carroll" " A Moment in Time", group show, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin "Bilder, die noch fehlten", group show, Künstlerforum, Bonn. Eine Ausstellung des Deutschen Hygiene-Museums Dresden und der Deutschen Behindertenhilfe
2004 "The Child - Works by Gottfried Helnwein", one-man show at the Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco Fine Arts Museums. The show was seen by 127,000 visitors and the San Francisco Chronicle quotes it as the most important exhibition of a contemporary artist in 2004 "Irish and other Landscapes", one-man show, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery in Cork, Ireland "Gesichter machen - das Verschwinden des Portraits", group exhibition, Musée de l'Élysée, Lausanne "Das Paradies und die Peri", Multi-Media Installation for the 8th SchumannFest, Tonhalle Düsseldorf, Choreography Gregor Seyffert & Compagnie Berlin, with Düsseldorfer Symphoniker and the Chor des Städtischen Musikvereins Düsseldorf, conductor John Fiore "Meisterwerke der Medienkunst aus der ZKM Sammlung", group exhibition, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Germany "Donald Duck", Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam 2003 "Neunter November Nacht", documentary about Helnwein's installation and analysis of his work with themes of violence, fascism and the Holocaust (video, 30 min.). Performers Maximilian Schell, Sean Penn and Jason Lee, director Henning Lohner, producer Gisela Guttman. Museum of Tolerance, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles "Modern Sleep", 20 x 60 feet, (6 x 18 metres), digital print on vinyl, installation in Los Angeles Paradise Burning (American Paintings III), one-man show, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco "Comic Release, Negotiating Identity for a new Generation", group show, Regina Miller Gallery, Purnell Center of the Arts, Carnegie Mellon University; The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson; Western Washington University; Western Gallery Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin; Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans "The Golden Age of Grotesque", cooperation with Marilyn Manson in different photographic and video projects and performances. Exhibition and performance with Marilyn Manson, Volksbühne, Berlin "Meisterwerke der Fotografie: Face to Face", group show, Portraitfotografie aus der Sammlung der DGBank, Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart
2002 Helnwein establishes a Studio in downtown Los Angeles "Downtown", one-man show, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco "In the Blink of an Eye - Photo Art (Augenblick - Fotokunst)", group show, Museum Kunst der Gegenwart, Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg/Vienna "Portrait Obscured", group exhibition, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art "Heaven on Earth", group show, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin "Seven", group show, Lead White Gallery, Dublin
2001 One-man show at the Butler House Gallery and Installation in the city of Kilkenny at the annual Arts Festival, with large digital prints of children's faces and monochromatic blue scenes on the facades of houses in the medieval town center "Malerei - Austrian Artists Now", group show, Albertina, Vienna and Museum der Bildenden Künste, Budapest Set and costumes for "Rake's Progress" by Igor Stravinsky in Hamburg State Opera. Director Jürgen Flimm, conductor Ingo Metzmacher "Between Earth and Heaven, New Classical Movements in the Art of Today", Museum Moderner Kunst, Oostende, Belgium. Installation Fall of the Angels, 7 x 10 metres, digital print on vinyl "Magic Vision", group show, Arkansas Arts Center "Berliner Mauer - Kunst für ein Europa im Aufbruch", group show, Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle, Cologne
2000 "The Darker Side of Playland: Childhood Imagery from the Logan Collection", group exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art One-man show, Robert Sandelson Gallery, London Argentine writer Rodrigo M. Malmsten, inspired by Helnwein's works, wrote the drama "Kleines Helnwein", which engages in themes such as fascism and violence, especially directed towards children. Opening in Theatro San Martin in Buenos Aires "Augenblicke und Endlichkeit - Das von der Photographie geprägte Jahrhundert. 40 wichtige Photographen des zwanzigsten Jahrhundert", group exhibition, Museum Ludwig, Cologne "Ghost in the Shell, Photography and the Human Soul, 1850. - 2000", group exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum of Art "Cross Currents in Modern Art, Tribute to Peter Selz", group show, Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York
1999 Photo session with Chuck Close in New York "Apokalypse", one-man show and installation, Dominikanerkirche, Krems, Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum "Innovation/Imagination: 50 years of Polaroid Photography", group show, Anselm Adams Center, San Francisco "20 Years of Modernism, Modern Masters and Contemporary Art", group show, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco
1998 One-man show, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, Turku, Finland One-man show, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco "Choice", Junge Künstler stellen das erste mal aus - ausgewählt von Ida Applebrook, Damien Hirst, Cindy Sherman and Gottfried Helnwein, Exit Art, New York "Götter, Helden und Idole", Ludwig Galerie, Schloss Oberhausen, Germany "A Delicate Balance", group exhibition curated by Jerry Kearns, Kent Gallery, New York
1997 Helnwein relocated to Ireland with his family and he lives and works in the south of Ireland "Helnwein, Retrospektive", State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg. For this exhibition the museum published an extensive artist's monograph (Palace Edition, Könemann Verlag) Stage design for Heiner Müller's drama "Die Hamletmaschine", 47 Berliner Festwochen in arena Berlin and in Muffathalle in Munich, director Gert Hof
1996 Portraits of Peter and Irene Ludwig for the Ludwig Museum in the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, exhibited for the first time Set and costumes for "Pasolini" in the Schauspielhaus Hamburg, director Hans Kresnik "Photographic Works from the Collection of the Museum", group show, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art One-man show, Fine Arts Museum, Otaru, Japan Group exhibition for the opening of the Ludwig Museum, Beijing
1995 "Versuche zu trauern", master pieces from the Ludwig Collection from antiquity to the present day, group exhibition, Ludwig Galerie Schloss Oberhausen, Germany "It's Only Rock'n Roll - Rock and Roll Currents in Contemporary Art", group exhibition, Phoenix Museum of Art, Arizona; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois; Nexus Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, Georgia; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum, Cleveland; Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami "Faces", one-man show, Houston Center for Photography Peter and Irene Ludwig purchase "Head of a Child" for the Ludwig Museum in the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg and "Dresden" for the Ludwig Museum in Beijing.
1994 "Faces", one-man show, Centre International d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Quebec "Das Jahrzehnt der Malerei", group show, Werke aus der Sammlung Schömer, Kunstverein, Augsburg, Germany One-man show, Mittelrhein Museum, Haus Metternich, Koblenz, Germany One-man show, Städtischen Museum, Schleswig, Germany Helnwein works intensively on the development of new artistic techniques. On the computer he processes and modifies photographs and paintings, then transfers them to the canvas and develops them further by painting with oil and acrylics Installation of a picture of a monochromatic blue face of 25 x 16 metres, digital print on vinyl, on the Hilton Hotel in the city centre of Vienna 1993 "Faces", one-man show, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn One-man show, Joseph Albers Museum, Quadrat Bottrop, Moderne Galerie, Germany "48 Portraits" are shown in the "Künstlerportraits" group exhibition in the Ludwig Forum in Aachen, Germany "Ansichten von Alexandra S.", group exhibition, Deutsche Fototage, Frankfurt
1992 "Faces", One-man show, Goethe Institut Centre culture allemand, Paris Photo session with Roy Lichtenstein at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York Group exhibition in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art "White Christmas" installation, Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren, Germany, for the 4th International Biennale of Paper Art First one-man show at the Modernism Gallery in San Francisco One-man show, Pfalzgalerie Museum, Kaiserslautern and Kunstmuseum, Thun, Switzerland "Aktion-Reaktion - Rainer, Nitsch, Brus und Helnwein in der Sammlung Schömer", Stiftung Fiecht in Austria "Faces", one-man show, Stadtmuseum, Munich
1991 Meets Charles Bukowski and David Bowie in Los Angeles "Some Facts about Myself". Book project with Marlene Dietrich on Berlin after the Wall comes down: Helnwein takes photographs and Marlene Dietrich writes a text. Published by Cantz, Kathleen Madden, New York Installation "Kindskopf", Minoritenkirche, Krems, Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum, Austria Works on "48 Portraits", a series of 48 monochrome red pictures of women (oil on canvas) as a counterpart to Gerhard Richter's "48 Portraits" from 1971, which depict only men in monochrome grey. The cycle of paintings was first shown in the Galerie Koppelmann in Cologne
1990 "Fotografie", one-man show, Musée de l'Élysée, Lausanne Helnwein's photographic work from 1970 to 1989 is published by Dai Nipon in Japan, text by Toschiharu Ito Set and costumes for "Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats, dargestellt durch die Schauspielgruppe des Hospizes zu Charenton unter Anleitung des Herrn de Sade" (The Persecution and Murder of Jean Paul Marat, Performed by the Drama Group of the Hospice of Charenton under the direction of Monsieur de Sade) by Peter Weiss, directed by Hans Kresnik at the Staatstheater in Stuttgart, Germany Work on a fragment of the Berlin Wall for the exhibition project "30 Artists in Berlin", together with Robert Longo, Sol LeWitt, Mimmo Paladino and others Photo session with Keith Richards at the Berlin Wall
1989 "Zeichnungen und Arbeiten auf Papier", one-man show, Folkwang Museum, Essen Torino Fotografia '89 Biennale Internazionale, exhibition with Clegg & Gutmann and David Hockney Cooperation with the writer Heiner Müller, choreographer Hans Kresnik and dancer Ismael Ivo on a play about Antonin Artsud Work on the set and costumes for "Carmina Burana" by Carl Orff at the Bayerische Staatsoper (opening of the 1990 Münchner Festspiele). When Wolfgang Sawallisch, the head of the Staatsoper, sees the radical costume design, he is so shocked that he immediately cancels the contracts with Helnwein and director Hans Kresnik Set, costumes, and masks for "Macbeth", a production of Hans Kresnik's choreographic theatre in the Stadttheater in Heidelberg. The play is later awarded the Theatre Prize of Berlin "Arbeiten auf Papier", one-man show, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg Helnwein meets William S. Burroughs and Norman Mailer in the USA Work on a series of drawings and pastels ("Modern Sleep", "Gott in Panik", "Das Wunderkind", "Verbrannter Engel")
1988 Installation "Selektion - Neunter November Nacht", four-metre high, hundred-metre long picture lane in which Gottfried Helnwein recalls the "Reichskristallnacht", the beginning of the Holocaust, on 9 November 1938. He confronts the passers-by with larger-than-life children's faces lined up in a seemingly endless row, as if for concentration camp selection The poster for Peter Zadek's production of "Lulu" by Frank Wedekind in the Schauspielhaus theatre in Hamburg unleashes a storm of outrage. The Deputy Mayor of Hamburg protests against the picture. A "German Language Citizens Initiative for the Protection of Human Dignity" lays charges against Helnwein und Zadek for pornography. The discussion about this picture spreads beyond the borders of the country. The Mayor of the City of Vienna, Helmut Zilk, is enthusiastic about the poster and gives Helnwein his hearty congratulations Participation in the exhibition "Selektion 4, Polaroid-Kunst der letzten 10 Jahre!", Victoria & Albert Museum, London and in the Photokina, Cologne
1987 "Der Untermensch - Gottfried Helnwein, Self-Portraits 1970-1987", one-man show, Museé d'Art Moderne, Strasbourg
One-man show, Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren; Villa Stuck, München "Der Untermensch", Installation and performance, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany Parallel to the large-format, multi-part pictures and the photographic work, he now also turns to crayon drawings ("Knabe und Neger", "Triumph der Wissenschaft", "Nachgeburt der Venus", "Das Lügengebet").
1986 Work on a series of large-format self-portrait metamorphoses. Beginning of a series of photographic self-dramatisations "Gott der Untermensch", "Das stille Leuchten der Avantgarde", "Türkenfamilie I", "Eine Träne auf Reisen", "Der Tod des Expertentums", "Partisanenliebe", "Blitzkrieg der Liebe", "Geheime Elite", "Gefäss der Leidenschaft" One-man show, Freie Volksbühne Berlin, podium discussion "Violence, Sexuality, Antiquity" with Heiner Müller, Hans Neuenfels and Ernest Bornermann
1985 "Gottfried Helnwein - Arbeiten von 1970 - 1985", one-man show at the Albertina Museum, Vienna, catalogue with texts by Walter Koschatzky and Peter Gorsen Rudolf Hausner proposes Helnwein as his successor as head of the masterclass for painters at the Academy of Visual Arts in Vienna, but Helnwein moves to Germany and lives and works in a castle near Cologne He radically changes his way of working and now begins a series of large-format pictures consisting of several parts (diptychs, triptychs, poliptychs). In doing so he combines photomurals with abstract gestural and monochrome painting in oil and acrylic. Also using reproductions of Caspar David Friedrich paintings and war documentary photographs, which he assembles to form what the critic Peter Gorsen calls "Bilderstrassen" (picture lanes) Time magazine commissions Robert Rauschenberg and Gottfried Helnwein to design covers with Deng Xiaoping portrait.
1984 "Helnwein", the film by Peter Hajek (co-production by ORF-ZDF), opens the Austrian Week in the Berlin film festival, "Berlinale". The film is awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize and in the same year wins the Eduard Rhein Prize and the Golden Kader of the city of Vienna for outstanding camera work. "1984 - Orwell und die Gegenwart", group exhibition, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna The office of Soviet foreign minister Gromyko tries to acquire Helnwein's portrait of Gromyko, which appeared as a "Time" cover. But the painting is already part of a collection in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. Helnwein meets Walt Disney artist Carl Barks, creator of the Donald Duck legend. Helnwein maintains that he learned more about art and life from Donald Duck than from all the schools he ever attended.
1983 One-man show, Stadtmuseum, Munich. The exhibition was seen by more than a hundred thousand people Andy Warhol poses for Helnwein in New York for a series of photos In the radio programme "Teestunde" Helnwein uses obscenities to insult the inventor of the neutron bomb, Sam T. Cohen, criticises the education and training system at schools and art schools, draws attention to the high number of student suicides, and calls upon young people simply to stay away from school. The directors of Austria Radio cancel this programme ZDF und ORF produce the documentary about Gottfried Helnwein. Part of the film originates in Los Angeles, where Helnwein meets Muhammad Ali, who appears in this film "Köpfe und Gesichter", group exhibition in der Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Germany
1982 Meets the Rolling Stones in London. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ron Wood, Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman pose for Helnwein Helnwein`s portrait of John F. Kennedy makes the cover for "Time" for the 20th anniversary of the President's death Die Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften, Hamburg (University of Visual Art) in Hamburg offers Helnwein a Chair. Helnwein declines the offer For "Zeit" magazine, Peter Sager writes a cover story about Helnwein. The self-portrait as a screaming blinded man is used for this cover story and later for the cover of the Scorpions album "Blackout". Bavarian TV produces a film portrait of Helnwein, directed by Hans-Dieter Hartl.
1981 One-man show, Baumgartner Galleries, Washington Begins a series of works about trivial heroes and myths with a painting of the Austrian soccer star Hans Krankl, "The Bomber of the Nation". There followed the pictures of "Peter der Grosse" (Peter Alexander - the Austrian singer) and "Niki Lauda" (the Austrian Formula-1 champion); the NDR-Film "Helnwein malt Lauda" directed by Viktoria vom Fleming. The art establishment and the critics are shocked by these works and reject them. The Austrian playwright Wolfgang Bauer, on the other hand, is enthusiastic about these works and calls them "paintings for eternity". The critic of the "Neue Zeit" reports: "Let us hope that eternity will resist such impertinence". Inspired by Helnwein's James Dean apotheosis, Wolfgang Bauer writes the ballad "Song for Helnwein - Boulevard of Broken Dreams" First encounter and start of the friendship with H. C. Artmann, the Austrian poet First monograph, texts by H.C. Artmann, Botho Strauß, Wolfgang Bauer and Barbara Frischmuth
1980 One-man show with pen-and-ink drawings in the Albertina Museum, Vienna Performance (Aktion) in the International Year of the Child R. Höpfinger and E. Regnier hand out sweets and toys bearing texts and Helnwein pictures of wounded and tortured children to passers-by in Zurich With an open letter and the picture of a dead child lying with his head in a plate of poisoned food (Lebensunwertes Leben) he protests against Austria's number one forensic psychiatrist, the former euthanasia doctor, Dr. Gross, who admitted in an interview that in the Nazi era he had poisoned hundreds of children and called this method of killing humane Helnwein became intensively involved with the phenomenon of the split between High Art and Trivial Art. He saw this as an apartheid situation in 20th century culture.
1979 One-man show, Galleria de Naviglio, Milano
1977 One-man show, Galerie Spectrum, Vienna Performance "Alt Wien", Vienna Seven month stay abroad, studying in the USA. Intensive involvement with the work of Kandinsky and Walt Disney
1976 Performance "Allzeit bereit" at the Naschmarkt, Vienna
1975 Works on a series of pen-and-ink drawings on thesubject of corrective devices "Metalllippe zum Lächeln", "Korrekturspange", "Das Wannenwunder von Watras", "Assistent Assmann", "Hilfe für Mann ohne Kinn" etc..
1974 Theodor-Körner-Prize Performance "Weisse Kinder" with 15 bandaged children in Kärntner Strasse, in the centre of Vienna ZDF-Film "Helnweins' Sehtest", directed by Heinz Dickmann One-man show, Galerie Jasa Fine Art, Munich
1973 First edition of etching "Meine Buben haben einen Türken in die Schlucht gestossen" More pen-and-ink drawings and performances with children ORF-Film "Engagierte Kunst?", directed by E. Kroiss One-man show and performance "Sandra" in the Galerie über der Stubenbastei, Vienna First cover for the political and cultural magazine "Profil" (Selbstmord in Österreich) showing a little girl slashing her wrists. Strong public reactions; many readers cancel their subscriptions
1972 An exhibition of Helnwein paintings in the Galerie des Pressehauses in Vienna is closed after three days because of strong protest and strike threats by the works council Work on a series of pen-and-ink, crayon and pencil drawings: "Freud und Leid", "Da kräht er vor Vergnügen, der kleine Mann", "Das Patengeschenk" Scratches and scrapes a series of self-portraits and child-photos with luminous stigma Performance "Sorgenkind" in the streets of Vienna
1971 Kardinal-König-Prize First public performances in Vienna in the streets, in coffee houses, etc. In an exhibition in the Vienna Künstlerhaus, unidentified people put "Entartete Kunst" (Degenerated Art) stickers on Helnwein's pictures At the opening of an exhibition in Galerie D in Mödling, near Vienna, the mayor has pictures by Helnwein confiscated by the police
1970 Academy Prize First photographic self-portraits with bandages and surgical instruments Photo performances with children In his attempt to paint a truly bad picture he creates the water-colour "Spezial" First one-man exhibition, Nachtgalerie im Atrium, Vienna Performance "Die Akademie brennt" (Academy Burning); with two fellow students Helnwein stages a rebellion at the Academy of Visual Arts. The reason is the refusal of the professors to allow the student representatives a say in the entrance examination. Professors are locked in and the serious damage is done to property. Helnwein and his colleagues are picked up by the police and charged. The Minister of Science and Art declares their actions to be political. Investigation and criminal proceedings are dropped.
1969-1973 Studies painting at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste (Academy of FI Arts), Vienna
Work on a series of hyper-realistic paintings of wounded and tortured children Intensive research into the various forms of trivial aesthetics such comics, advertising, and film; puts this experience into his work. Water colour: "Unkeusches Kind", "Peinlich", "Gemeines Kind"; first oil painting "Mutter, Du hier?", "Führer, wir danken Dir!"
1966 First performances for a small audience; the artist cuts his face and hands several times with razor blades, wood-engraving tools, and the edges skis, first bandaging performances
1965-1969 Studies at the Höhere Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt (Experimental Institute for Higher Graphic Education) in Vienna Walks with his friend Manfred Deix from Venice to Vienna for several days without eating or sleeping.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS: Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Francisco Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Art San Francisco Albertina Museum, Graphische Sammlung Vienna Ludwig Museum for International Art Beijing Ludwig Forum for International Art Aachen Ludwig Museum Cologne Ludwig Museum Schloss Oberhausen The State Russian Museum St. Petersburg The Denver Art Museum Denver Smithsonian Institution Washington D.C. Polaroid Collection Photographic Resource Center, Boston University San Jose Museum of Art San Jose Arkansas Arts Center Little Rock Santa Barbara Museum of Art California 21C Museum, International Contemporary Art Foundation Louisville, Kentucky Museum Folkwang Essen Musée de l'Elysée Lausanne ZKM, Museum für neue Kunst, Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe Lentos Museum of Modern Art Linz Austria Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn Josef Albers Museum Bottrop Leopold Hoesch Museum Düren Wilhelm Busch Museum Hannover Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin Münchner Stadtmuseum Munich Die Kunstsammlung der Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg Centre International d'Art Contemporain de Montreal The Crawford Municipal Art Gallery Cork, Ireland Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum Vienna Essl Collection, Museum for Contemporary Art Vienna Kunstmuseum Thun Switzerland Messner Mountain Museum Firmian Schloss Sigmundskron, Bozen Wäinö Aaltonens Museum Turku, Finland National Museum of Photography, Fotomuseo, Bogota, Colombia Alinari National Museum of Photography Florence, Italy Thom Weisel Collection San Francisco Kunstwerk - Museum und Sammlung Alison u. Peter W. Klein Eberdingen Vicki and Kent Logan Collection Denver William Kaper Jr.Collection New York Mikki and Stanley Weithorn Collection New York Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection London Ben Kingsley Collection London Guinness Collection London DG Bank Collection Frankfurt H.R. Giger Museum Collection Chateau St. Germain / Switzerland Gruber Collection, Museum Ludwig Cologne Cologne Jason Lee Collection Los Angeles Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung Hamburg Benedikt Taschen Collection Cologne Robert Wilson Collection New York Niarchos Collection Greece Billy Wilder Collection Los Angeles Günther and Carola Peill Collection Cologne Hans Dichand Collection Vienna Hans Janitschek New York Michael Cohen New York Klaus Kiefer Essen Arnold Schwarzenegger Collection Los Angeles Modernism Gallery San Francisco Don and Cecilia Chan San Francisco, Paris, Singapour Aston und Eileen Pereira San Francisco Ginger and Les Crane San Francisco Lindsay and Peter Joost San Francisco Thomas Lundstrom San Francisco Barnaby Conrad III San Francisco Penny and Jim Coulter San Francisco Frederika and Herbert Koch Vienna Kurt and Veronika Fliegerbauer Munich Carl Djerassi London, San Francisco Georg Lutz Berlin Holger Timm Berlin Antje Vollmer Berlin Sean Penn San Francisco Maximilian Schell Los Angeles, Austria Giovanni Ribisi Los Angeles Peter Gorsen Vienna Peter Selz Berkeley Robert Reynolds Los Angeles Robert Lanigan Ireland Alice Schwarzer Cologne Dick and Gisela Gutmann Los Angeles Francoise Rust-Forteau London Paul and Cindy Levy Hawaii Gregory Koll Oakloand Luke Brugnara Collection San Francisco Neil Shicoff Vienna Dillard Denson and Larry Curbow Little Rock Fred Poe Little Rock Bruno Franzen Zurich Alain Borer Paris Robert Sandelson London Marilyn Manson Los Angeles Kevin Smith Los Angeles Nicolas Cage Los Angeles Tracy Westen Los Angeles Jessica Roth Ireland John Ludlum Ireland Javier Baz Denver William Friedkin Los Angeles Ruth Vitale Los Angeles, New York Ben Foster Los Angeles Reinhold Messner Italy Helmut Ditsch Argentina, Ireland Henning Lohner Los Angeles, Berlin Marius Mueller-Westernhagen Hamburg Beck Hansen Los Angeles Johann Kresnik Germany, Austria Infeld Collection Vienna Kathleen Grzegorek and Jamil Tahir-Kheli Los Angeles Günter Braus Collection Heidelberg A.M.Brunner Collection Vienna Georg Stumpf Collection Vienna Christian Baha Collection Zürich Alexander Schütz Collection Vienna Gernot Friedhuber Collection Los Angeles, Vienna Arnold Hirschl Collection Linz Steve Wilson and Laura Lee Brown Collection Louisville, Kentucky Andorfer Collection, Vienna
INSTALLATIONS:
* "Der Untermensch", Installation and Performance, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany, 1987 * "Ninth November Night", Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany, 1988 * "Ninth November Night", Musee'De L'Elysee Lausanne, Switzerland, 1990 * "Kindskopf", Minoriten Church, Museum of Lower Austria, Krems, Austria, 1991 * "White Christmas", Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren, 4th international Biennale of Paper Art, Germany, 1992 * "Ninth November Night", City center of Heilbronn, Germany, 1992 * "Ninth November Night", Museum St. Ingbert, Albert Weisgerber Stiftung, Saarbrücken, Germany, 1993 *"Epiphany", Installations in the medival city center of Kilkenny, Kilkenny Arts Festival, Ireland, 2001 * "Modern Sleep", Santa Monica, Los Angeles, USA, 2003 * "Ninth November Night", Ludwig Institut, Schloss Oberhausen, Germany, 1995 * "Ninth November Night", Kulturbrauerei, Berlin, Germany, 1996 * "Ninth November Night", Museum of Fine Art, Otaru, Japan, 1996 * "Ninth November Night", The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1997 * "Ninth November Night", Philadelphia, USA, 2008 * "The last Child" City of Waterford, Ireland, 2008
PERFORMANCES:
1966-67 Several Aktiones with self-wounding and bandages for a small audiences, Wien 1986, Aktion, "Deutschland über Alles", Turnierplatz, Schlosspark Laxenburg,bei Wien 1971, Aktion "Horch", Mödling bei Wien 1972, Aktion "Sorgenkind", Wien 1972, Aktion "Eternal Youth", Wien 1973, Aktion "Hallo Dulder", Wien 1973, Aktion "St. Stefan" (mit Robert Schöller), Wien 1973, Aktion "Sandra", Galerie Stubenbastei, Wien 1973, Aktion "Pinocchio", Wien 1973 1973, Aktion "Pinocchio ||", Wien 1974, Aktion "Weisse Kinder", Kärntnerstrasse, Wien 1975, Aktion "Ordnung muss sein", Galerie Brandstätter, Wien 1976, Aktion "Alt Wien", Cafe Alt Wien, Wien 1976, Aktion "Allzeit bereit", Naschmarkt Wien 1977, Aktion "Mine-Disaster" (Grubenunglück), Wien 1977, Aktion "1000 Jahre" (mit DeEs Schwertberger, Jochen Wahl, Robert Schöller), Klagenfurt 1982, Aktion "Kind und Kegel", mit Sohn Cyril, Frankfurt 1983, Aktion "Trio", mit Stefan Remmler und Peter Behrens, zur Eröffnung der Helnwein Retrospektive, Münchner Stadtmuseum 1984, Aktion "Lasset die Kleinen zu mir kommen", Hamburg 1987, Aktion "Der Untermensch" , Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen 1987, Aktion "Gott der Untermenschen", Kopal-Kaserne, österreichischen Bundesheer, St. Pölten- Spratzern - Panzerbrigade 10, PzB 10 (Camp Kopal of the Austrian Army) St. Pölten-Spratzern, Niederösterreich 2003, Aktion "The Golden Age" mit Marilyn Manson, Volksbühne Berlin
PUBLICATIONS:
MONOGRAPHS:
Gottfried Helnwein, Angels Sleeping, retrospective, Galerie Rudolfinum Prague, 2008 Petr Nedoma The last Child, An Installation by Gottfried Helnwein in the City of Waterford Waterford City, Ireland, 2008 John Ennis Face it, Works by Gottfried Helnwein, One man show, Lentos Museum of Modern Art Linz, 2006 Stella Rollig, Thomas Edlinger, Nava Semel The Child, Works by Gottfried Helnwein. One man exhibition, San Francisco Fine Arts Museums, The California Palace of the Legion of Honor", 2004 Robert Flynn Johnson, Harry S. Parker Irish and other Landscapes, one man show, The Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork, 2004 Peter Murray Helnwein - Ninth November Night, The Documentary Museum of Tolerance, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles, 2003 Jonathon Keats, Simon Wiesenthal Helnwein, Installation in the city center of Kilkenny one-man show at the Butler House Gallery, Kilkenny Kilkenny Arts Festival, Kilkenny, Ireland, 2001 Clare O’Donoghue and Mic Moroney Helnwein, one man show, Robert Sandelson Gallery, London, 2000 Robert Flynn Johnson “Apokalypse”, Installation and one man show, Niederösterreichishes Landesmuseum (Museum of Lower Austria), 1999. Alf Krauliz, Peter Zawrel and Wolfgang Bauer Helnwein, Retrospective, The State Russian Museum St. Petersburg, 1997. Alexander Borovsky, Curator for Contemporary Art Klaus Honnef, Peter Selz, William Burroughs, Heiner Müller, H.C. Artmann. Helnwein, one man show, Fine Arts Museum Otaru, Japan, 1996 Chikako Imai, Evgenia Petrova and Alexander Borovsky Helnwein, Benedikt Taschen, Cologne, 1992. Anreas Mäckler Helnwein Faces, Edition Stemmle, Zürich 1992. William S. Burroughs, Heiner Müller and Reinhold Mißelbeck Helnwein, one man show, Kunstmuseum Thun, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, 1992. Gisela Fiedler-Bender and Georg Dolezal Malerei muss sein wie Rockmusik Gottfried Helnwein im Gespräch mit Andreas Mäckler Beck’sche Reihe, Munich, 1992 Kindskopf, Installation in the Minoritten Church, Krems Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum, Vienna, 1991. Peter Zawrel, William Burroughs Some Facts About Myself, Photographs by Gottfried Helnwein, Edition Kathleen Madden, New York, 1990. Text by Marlene Dietrich. Helnwein (Self-Portraits 1970-1987). Dai Nippon Printing, Tokyo, 1989 Published by Tosiharu Ito Fourteen Photographs Edition Kathleen Madden, New York, 1989. Gottfried Helnwein, text by Norman Mailer Gottfried Helnwein (works on paper 1969-1989), one man show. Folkwang Museum Essen, Kunsthalle Bremen, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, 1989. Hubertus Froning Helnwein – der Untermensch (Self-Portraits 1970-1987) one man, Museum of Modern Art, Strasbourg Edition Braus, Heidelberg, 1988. Peter Gorsen and Heiner Müller Helnwein – Ninth November Night, Installation between the Ludwig Museum and the Dome of Cologne, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, 1988 Reinhold Mißelbeck, Simon Wiesenthal, Heiner Müller Gottfried Helnwein, one man show, Mittelrhein Museum, Koblenz, Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren, Galerie Würthle, Vienna, 1986. Dorothea Eimert, Hans Dichand and Kurt Eitelbach Helnwein, Works from 1970-1985, one man show, Albertina Museum, Vienna, 1983 Walter Koschatzky, Peter Gorsen, Klaus Hartung And H.C. Artman Helnwein, Nicolai Verlag, Berlin 1984. Wolfgang Bauer Helnwein, Orac-Pietsch, Vienna, 1981. H.C. Artman, Wolfgang Bauer, Barbara Frischmuth, Botho Strauss, Karlheinz Roschitz Helnwein ‘Unheimliche Geschichten’ Edgar Allan Poe, drawings by Gottfried Helnwein Kunstverlag Weingarten, 1979. Walter Koschatzky
FILMS:
Dokumentation von Erich Kroiss, ORF 1974 "Helnweins Sehtest", (Deutschland), Ein Maler sucht sein Publikum, Gottfried Helnwein, ein Film von Heinz Dieckmann, 45 Minuten 1981 "Helnwein" (Deutschland), ein Film von Viktoria von Flemming, NDR, 15 Minuten 1982 "Helnwein, ein Portait", (Deutschland), ein Film von Hans-Dieter Hartl, Bayerisches Fernsehen. 1984 "Helnwein", (Österreich/Deutschland), Film von Peter Hajek, Coproduktion ORF- ZDF, Eröffnungsfilm der Österreichwoche der Berlinale. Mitwirkende: Gottfried Helnwein, seine Frau Renate, seine drei Kinder und Muhammad Ali. Der Film wird mit dem Adolf-Grimme-Preis ausgezeichnet und gewinnt in demselben Jahr den Eduard- Rhein-Preis sowie den Goldenen Kader der Stadt Wien für hervorragende Kameraarbeit, 45 Minuten. 1999 “Chuck Close, Gottfried Helnwein, Jason Brooks”, La photo n’est rien, sa reproduction est tout - ou le retour du photoréalisme. www.arte-tv.com 2003 "Neunter November Nacht", (USA), eine Dokumentation über die Installation zwischen Kölner Dom und Museum Ludwig zur Erinnerung an die Reichskristallnacht und andere Arbeiten von Gottfried Helnwein zum Thema Holocaust., von Henning Lohner, Kommentatoren: Sean Penn, Maximilian Schell, Jason Lee. Premiere; Museum of Tolerance, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles, 10. November 2003, 23 Minuten. 2003 "Doppelherz" (USA), ein Film von Marilyn Manson, Art Direction: Gottfried Helnwein, Location: Studio Helnwein, Los Angeles 2004 "Donald Duck: Meer Dan een Eend", (Niederlande), Productie: Marijke Huijbregts, Regie en samenstelling: , Amsterdam, 30. Mai 2004 2006 "Der Provokateur" (Österreich), ein Film über Gottfried Helnwein, ein Film von Claudia Teissig Susanna Schwarzer, ORF/3sat, 3. Mai 2006, 45 Minuten 2008 "Die Stille der Unschuld", a documantary about Gottfried Helnwein, National German Television (WDR/3sat), 100 minutes, director: Claudia Schmid |