Gottfried Helnwein | A Contemporary Austrain - Irish Hyperrealist Painter
Gottfried Helnwein's Paintings
Gottfried Helnwein is a rock star in the fine arts, but his work goes well beyond painting to include photography, theatrical performances, and postmodern art practices. He is both adored and despised, owing to his terrifying and nauseatingly realistic paintings. Helnwein was born in Vienna, and his art was influenced by the post-traumatic mentality of a defeated country. Reality took on the look of disaster on his canvases: a mangled infant, turned inside out humanity - in a Nazi uniform, with gray hair and a bandaged, bloodied skull. Helnwein, a multifaceted artist and painter, organizer of performances and installations, author of album covers for Rammstein and Scorpions, and photographer for Marilyn Manson, stands behind this monolith of witnessed horror. He is not hypocritical at all. One of the most well-known modern artists, Gottfried Helnwein has amazed people over the past forty years with his paintings, photography, sculptures, installations of all types, remarkable performances, and even the fabrication of theatrical sets.



