Fertige Bilder auf Knopfdruck - was in Zeiten von Digitalkameras und Fotodrucker das Selbstverständlichste auf der Welt ist, erschien in den 1970er Jahren geradezu revolutionär. Auch viele Künstler, von Andy Warhol über Ansel Adams und Gottfried Helnwein, verfielen dem geradezu magischen Aspekt der Polaroid-Kameras und schufen - mit unterschiedlichsten Konzepten, aber mit demselben Originalmaterial - beeindruckende Werke. ...

Warhol, Adams, White, Wegman, Newton, Mapplethorpe, Levinthal und Gottfried Helnwein. ...

In Europe, Hyperrealist painters included Austrian Gottfried Helnwein (b. 1948). He first used a hyperrealist technique to portray extremes of suffering. His later works tackle the theme of Nazism and the Holocaust, most famously in his "Epiphany" series (1996-98). In "Epiphany I" (Adoration of the Magi) SS officers with a mother and a child represent the Magi and the Virgin Mary and Jesus, with the child being admired as an example of Aryan perfection. ...

Collectors Contemporary stages up to nine exhibitions and fair participations a year featuring the likes of Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Daniel Buren, Gottfried Helnwein and artists like Chris Levine and Russell Young whom it represents exclusively in the region. ...

The National Theatre of Scotland and the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, present two shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.
The Wheel (image by Gottfried Helnwein) is an unnerving new play by Zinnie Harris (Further than the Furthest Thing), directed by National Theatre of Scotland Artistic Director Vicky Featherstone. ...

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Výstava Já, bezesporu, která se bude v pražské Galerii Rudolfinum konat do 14. srpna, představuje několik ikon současného umění. Stejnojmennou přehlídku připravilo před třemi lety německé Kunstmuseum Wofsburg. K tématu lidské identity mají co říci Američanka Cindy Sherman, Němec Gerhard Richter, Francouz Christian Boltanski i Rakušan Gottfried Helnwein. ...

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In cooperation with Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, this exhibition is exploring themes of human identity - the topic of "self" in the most varied of situations and visual expressions. This international project brings together works from Christian Boltanski, Gottfried Helnwein, Gerhard Richter, Cindy Sherman, Marlene Dumas, Bruce Nauman and others. ...

Individually, the paintings of Gottfried Helnwein can strike a viewer as contrived, manipulative and heartless. But put several dozen of them together, as the Crocker Art Museum has done, and they rock, shaking out the quotient of grave common concern in his private obsessions.
Helnwein deliberately evokes the disillusioned view of childhood promoted by another Viennese eminence, Sigmund Freud. But he also fingers the global entertainment industry as an infernal influence, using meticulous realism to place oddly irreal figures borrowed from Disney and anime on a common footing with his human subjects. Despite the lyrical passages in his work, Helnwein appears bent on inducing a distaste for images among consumers of them who have lost perspective on their tyrannizing power. His frequent use of nearly cinematic scale makes this shock therapy both unforgettable and hard to endure. ...

Hier finden sich selbstverständlich große Namen wie Warhol, Adams, White, Wegman, Newton, Mapplethorpe, Levinthal und als einziger Österreicher Gottfried Helnwein. Eine spezielle Rarität sind die 20-mal-24-Zoll-Großformate. Aufträge dafür hatten Konzernchef Land und sein künstlerischer Berater Ansel Adams nur an handverlesene Fotografen vergeben. Sie waren bei der Arbeit mit einem Material, das im freien Handel nicht erhältlich ist und für dessen Verarbeitung weltweit nur ganz wenige Kameras existieren, europaweit vom tschechischen Fotografen Jan Hnizdo betreut und unterstützt worden. ...

Since he began his career in Vienna in the late 1960s, Gottfried Helnwein has been known for his radical use of the portrait and self-portrait. His photography, paintings, and monumental installations address themes of inhumanity, violence, and the importance of personal expression with stark and probing psychological intensity. Helnwein's focus on the innocent and wonder of childhood is exemplified in paintings whose forceful imagery is rooted in the artist's upbringing in post-World War II Vienna. ...

Gottfried Helnwein, Gustave Courbet, Lovis Corinth, Oskar Kokoschka, Loretta Lux, Thomas Lawrence, Otto Dix, Angelika Kaufmann, Gustav Klimt, Max Liebermann, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Pablo Picasso, Friedrich von Amerling u.v.a.m. ...

Gottfried Helnwein looks more like a rock star than an internationally acclaimed artist. Dressed all in black, with a bandanna around his head and dark glasses hiding his eyes, he resembles, in a superficial way, Bono. Like Bono, he is concerned about the most troubling issues of our times: violence, inhumanity and oppression.
There is a cinematic quality to all of Helnwein's works, which seem to be projected on a wide screen. These "stilled cinematic moments," as Crocker curator Diana Daniels calls them, are powerfully affecting. "He deals with difficult subjects in a way that isn't propagandistic," Daniels said. "It's an open-ended way of dealing with historic subjects that are in danger of slipping away from us." Many of the images are very disturbing, and the museum has issued a warning that some images may be challenging for sensitive or younger viewers. But the show is a powerful one, posing questions we all need to contemplate. ...

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The exhibition GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN - INFERNO OF THE INNOCENTS at the Crocker Art Museum opens on Friday, January 28th from 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm.
Like a modern-day Goya, Gottfried Helnwein’s art addresses themes of inhumanity, violence and the virtue of personal expression. Over more than four decades, the artist has pursued a singular, radical vision realized in monumental paintings and photographs. ...

VAIL, Colo.—Last year, Vicki and Kent Logan made headlines when they announced a $60 million-plus bequest to the Denver Art Museum—the largest planned gift in the museum’s 113-year history. That gift includes a promise of the Logan house and the private 7,500-square-foot museum situated next door.
The Colorado-based couple has been active on museum boards for many years and has donated extensively to the Denver museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. ...

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