Berlin / Paris
For the occasion of the fall of the Berlin-wall
"Some Facts about Myself", text by Marlene Dietrich
conception: Gottfried Helnwein
photographs: Gottfried Helnwein
design und layout : Gottfried Helnwein, Neville Brody and Giles Dunn ...

Gottfried Helnwein (works on paper 1969–1989),
Folkwang Museum Essen/Kunsthalle Bremen/
Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, 1989,
text by Hubertus Froning, H.C. Artmann and Heiner Müller. ...

“Helnwein” ‘Ninth November Night’”,
Ludwig Museum - Cologne/Musée de l’Elysée - Lausanne 1988,
text by Reinhold Mißelbeck, Simon Wiesenthal, Charles-Henri Favrod
and Heiner Müller. ...

Texte von Walter Koschatzky, Peter Gorsen, Klaus Hartung and H.C. Artmann. ...

exhibition-catalogue
Mittelrhein Museum, Koblenz
Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren
Galerie Würthle, Wien, ...

Artist of inner Turmoil.
Gottfried Helnwein's works from the 1980's are represented by the self-portraits in his "Black Mirror" series. However, these works reach far beyond the boundaries of the ordinary self-portrait.
They reflect the inner wants and desperation which lies within the viewer's own self.
Helnwein points out the new form of the modern self-portrait which involves the creator and viewer alike. ...

Einzelausstellung, Musée d’Art Moderne, Strasbourg
texts by Peter Gorsen and Heiner Müller. ...

Helnwein zeigt wie nur wenige Künstler in schonungsloser Offenheit und Direktheit den Menschen als Opfer in seiner Qual -- ausgeliefert einer Umwelt voller Bedrohungen. Damit fügt er sich ein in die Reihen so bekannter Maler wie Pieter Breughel, Egon Schiele oder Francis Bacon, die er letzlich in bezug auf ungeschminkte, überzeichnete Darstellungsformen noch weit übertrifft. ...

Artist of inner Turmoil.
Gottfried Helnwein's works from the 1980's are represented by the self-portraits in his "Black Mirror" series. However, these works reach far beyond the boundaries of the ordinary self-portrait. They reflect the inner wants and desperation which lies within the viewer's own self. Helnwein points out the new form of the modern self-portrait which involves the creator and viewer alike. ...

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one-man show and Performance ...

... Burt Silverman, RB Kitaj, Kinuko Craft, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Richard Hess, Gottfried Helnwein, Mario Donizetti. This collection has been given to the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, so the number of works which ... ...

Catalogue ...

Catalogue ...

Biennale-catalogue
This edition, at the Promotrice delle Belle Arti, coincided with the 150 anniversary of the birth of photography. The curator, Daniela Palazzoli, underlined the importance of the artistic value of photograpy putting aside the historical and modern section a contemporary section that hosts authors like David Hockney, Gottfried Helnwein,Clegg & Guttmann, renowned names in the artistic world. ...

84 zeitgenössische Künstler zum Thema Menschen auf der Flucht
group show
catalogue ...

How does a friendly person like Helnwein stand making his - excellent - painting into a mirror of the terrors of this century? Or is it that he can't stand not doing it? Does his mirror just reflect the attitude of the century? ...

This book accompanies an exhibition tour of the
Staedtische Galerie Erlangen
Kommunale Galerie Berlin
Badischer Kunstverein e.V. Karlsruhe
Kunstverein Ingolstadt
Staedtische Museum Schleswig
which was first presented in October 1989.
All instant pictures originate from the International Polaroid Collection.
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Helnwein staged, without inhibition, the spectacle of his own mind, counterpoised between his emotions as an accelerating element of experience and his rationality in reflection upon the human condition. ...

words by Norman Mailer

Material für den Sekundarbereich II:
Malerei, Grafik, Fotografie. SELBSTPORTRAIT,
Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt, Angelika Kaufmann, Caspar David Friedrich, Vincent van Gogh, Max Beckmann, Salvador Dali, Arnulf Rainer, Gottfried Helnwein.
Fotorealistischer Aufschrei, Gottfried Helnwein's Selbstportrait, 1983 ...