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Marble Palace, State Russian Museum St Petersburg
Helnwein
Commemorating the retrospective of Gottfried Helnwein in St. Petersburg's Marble Palace in 1997, the State Russian Museum has published the most comprehensive anthology of the unconventional artist's work to date.
This is the first publication showing all aspects of Helnwein's complete works from the period between 1970 and 1997.
It includes his graphic works, watercolors, oil and mixed media paintings,
his photographic work, public actions and installations as well as his works for the theatre.
With texts by Heiner Müller, William S. Burroughs, H.C.Artmann, Klaus Honnef and Peter Selz.
424 pages, 580 illustrations.
Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH,
Cologne, Germany
Helnwein ...

MTV: Sigismondi and Bowie both acknowledge lifting the imagery in his "Dead Man Walking" video from the work of the English painter Francis Bacon.
The look of Floria's most noted video to date, though, [QuickTime,1 MB] "Beautiful People," although it owes a debt to Austrian painter Gottfried Helnwein, was pretty much the inspiration of the artist, Marilyn Manson.
KURT:
The new wave of rock-video grotesquerie isn't new at all, actually, the Austrian painter Gottfried Helnwein, whose self-portrait adorned the cover of an album by the German band Scorpions some years back, was doing images of medical horror twenty years ago,
and no one in rock has gone as far down the road to happy depravity as photographer Joel Peter Witkin, whose deeply disturbing work, which you might best seek out on your own is much admired by Nine Inch Nails leader Trent Reznor, no slouch at images of icky sickness himself. ...

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Catalogue
Muffathalle, München
47. Berliner Festwochen, Berliner Arena
Ausstattung: Gottfried Helnwein
Regie: Gert Hof ...

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