Beginning of his relationship with Renate Kurrer, whom he marries 1982.

More pen-and-ink drawings.
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1976 Aktion "Allzeit Bereit" (Ever Ready) at the Naschmarkt, Vienna.
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Aktion "St. Stephn" with Robert Schoeller in Vienna.
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Aktion "Cafe Alt Wien".
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1975 -1985 Helnwein works on a series of pen-and-ink drawings.
"Unser Entenbischof" (Our Duck-Bishop),
"Zwei amerikanische Ärzte behelligen eine Patientin" (Two American Doctors teasing a Patient),
"Mulattin Erika in ihrem Haus" (Mulato-girl Erika in her House),"Das Wannenwunder von Watras" (The Bathtub Wonder of Watras),
"Metallippe zum Lächeln" (Metal Lip for Smiling),
"Das Grubenunglück" (Mine Disaster),
"Korrekturspange" (Corrective Brace),
"Assistent Assmann" (Assistant Assmann),
"Hilfe für Mann ohne Kinn" (Help for Man with no Chin). ...

Gottfried and Ilse Helnwein get divorced.

1974 Theodor Körner Prize.

ZDF (German national TV) film portrait "Helnweins Sehtest" (Helnwein's Eye Test), directed by Heinz Dieckmann.
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"Weisse Kinder" (White Children) Aktion with 15 bandaged children in Kärntnerstrasse, in the centre of Vienna.
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1973 First edition of an etching "Meine Buben haben einen Türken in die Schlucht gestossen" (My Little Rascals Have Shoved a Turk into the Ravine).

Aktion "Sandra" at Gallery over the Stubenbastei, Vienna.

Aktion "Gifttanz" (Poison-Dance), Vienna.
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Self-portrait with Smiling-Aid (Selbstportrait mit Schmunzelhilfe).
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Aktion "Pinocchio".
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Aktion "Hallo Dulder!".
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First cover for the political and cultural magazine "Profil".
"Suicide in Austria" (Selbstmord in Österreich), showing a little girl slashing her wrists. - many readers are outraged and cancel their subscriptions. ...

1972 .
A Helnwein exhibition in the Gallery of the "House of the Press" in Vienna, headquarters of Austrias biggest newspapers, is discontinued after three days because of strong protests by visitors and employees and finally strike threats by the workers council ...

Aktion "Sorgenkind" in Vienna.
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Works on a series of pen and ink, crayon and pencil drawings.