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+ + + JEWISH CHRONICLE, JUNE 2 2000
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Artist's haunting Nazi-era images
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London show for Gottfried Helnwein
" Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein's powerful and haunting paintings provide a disturbing commentary on Nazism and the Holocaust, regularly provoking outraged reactions from right-wingers in his native land and Germany. ..."
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+ + + WHAT's ON IN LONDON, MAY 17 2000
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NEW KIDS OUT TO SHOCK
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" Gottfried Helnwein's art uses disturbing images of children to challenge the Nazi past, but as Fisun Grüner finds, a certain moral ambiguity lingers ..."
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+ + + DAILY TELEGRAPH, MAY 16 2000
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THE LATE SHOW
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" The 24-hour city is already a reality for art-lover Lou Reed. Reed was dining with a friend - the Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein - on Sunday night, when he decided he wanted to see Helnwein's new show at the Robert Sandelson Gallery. "I had just taken to my bed when I got a phone call from Gottfried", says Sandelson. "But I'm an old fan of Lou Reed so I went as I was and opened up at midnight." For nearly an hour, Sandelson stood in his nightwear and "yawned away while they analysed the pictures in detail". Afterwards, he drove Reed back to his hotel where, the star explained, he was looking forward to doing tai chi exercises on the balcony at dawn. ..."
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+ + + i-D Magazine
May 2000
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Regenerate Art
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" The current issue of Camera Austria consists entirely of blank, black pages, with "Oesterreich 2000" written simply in the top right hand corner of each. Nothing demonstrates more effectively the shock of Austria's artistic community at the electoral success of Joerg Haider and his right wing Freedom Party, but this does not apply to Gottfried Helnwein. To the Austrian artist in self imposed exile, the recent events have come as no surprise at all. "I don't think the situation in Austria has really become any worse," states Helnwein matter of factly, "before the world just didn't want to look at it. I knew about the young Nazis infiltrating the Freedom Party in the mid '70s. ..."
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+ + + THE GUARDIAN, MAY 16 2000
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The man who used his own blood to paint Hitler
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" Kate Connolly meets Gottfried Helnwein, the Austrian who is still confronting his country's Nazi past.
Walking along Cork Street in central London, trying to locate the Robert Sandelson Gallery, I do a double take on seeing Mick Jagger standing at number 5a, gazing through its paneless window. He has the 70s hairstyle, carved cheeks and angular nose, arms folded and face expressionless as he observes the workmen labouring to reinsert the glass. The whole tableau recalls some contrived album cover. Except it isn't Jagger, but one of his biggest fans, Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein. ..."
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+ + + IRISH TIMES, FEBRUARY 16 2000
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The Bloodstained Führer
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" "The controversial work of Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein, now resident in Ireland, explorers the lingering Austrian loyalty to Nazism. He speaks to Mic Moroney. ..."
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+ + + KURIER
FEBRUARY 2000
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Herbst Mode 2000: Gucci klont Helnwein
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" Kennt Gucci Helnwein? Wie Klone des Wiener Konzept-Künstlers spazierten die Models Sonntag abend in Mailand für das Florentina Mode Haus über den Laufsteg. Besser gesagt, den Spannteppich, auch er ganz im stil der Hippie-Aera, in die Gucci seine Herbstkollektion 2000 verlegt hatte. Mit Helnwein's typischen Kopftuch, seinen Brillen, und seiner Frisur. ..."
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+ + +
25.April 2000
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Haaretz newspaper(Jerusalem)
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+ + +
September 2000
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Argentinian Theatre piece named "Kleines Helnwein"
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Pictures, newspaper articles and promo pieces from an Argentinian Theatre piece named "Kleines Helnwein", written and directed by Rodrigo Malmsten, inspired by Gottfried Helnwein.
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+ + +
Oktober 2000
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Art Forum
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+ + + ART NEWS ROOM.COM, 12.6.00
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ART NEWS ROOM.COM
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Joanna Hayman-Bolt
Any artist who sites Donald Duck and Jesus Christ as the most important influences in their art must be worth taking a look at. In the row of pristine gallery fronts in London's Cork Street, you cannot miss Gottfried Helnwein's show; it's the one with the gigantic Mickey Mouse staring out at you. The Robert Sandelson Gallery has given us a stunning show of the infamous, Austrian born artist's recent work. The influential combination of the Disney character and the Messiah makes for a very disturbing exhibition. Helnwein is on a mission to find the answers to questions that no-one in Austria would give him; such as why the post-war republic portrayed itself as a victim rather than as one of the first main perpetrators of Nazism.
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+ + + Ober Österreichische Nachrichten
Juni 1999
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Erklärungen zur Kunst sind sinnlos
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" Gigantische Kulisse für eine irritierende Schau grossformatiger Bilder: Der 1948 in Wien geborene Maler Gottfried Helnwein zeigt in der sakralen Wucht der Dominikanerkirche Krems seine Apokalypse". Einen Bild-zyklus anlässlich der Grossen Prophezeiungen", heuer Motto des nö. Donaufestivals. Die OÖN sprachen mit dem Künstler, der seit 1997 in Irland lebt und einer der international (u.a. in Japan, China, Finnland, USA, Russland) präsentesten aktuellen Maler Österreichs ist. ..."
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+ + + KULTURSPIEGEL, JULY 28 1999
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Ich möchte nichts mehr sehen
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Interview mit Lou Reed Der New Yorker Rockmusiker Lou Reed über seine erste Fotoausstellung in Europa ..."
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+ + + KULTURSPIEGEL, JUNE 26 1999
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Welches Buch haben Sie noch nicht gelesen?
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Interview with Julius Deutschbauer Der Künstler Julius Deutschbauer betreibt in Wien die weltweit einzige Bibliothek ungelesener Bücher. ..."
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+ + + KULTURSPIEGEL, JUNE 9 1999
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Donald war mein Erlöser
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Interview with Carl Barks Der Zeichner Carl Barks über Disney, Picasso, Warhol und Sex in Entenhausen. ..."
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+ + + SAN FRANCISCO CRONICLE, OCTOBER 31 1998
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SHOCK TROOPER
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" Art viewers who consider themselves shockproof should take a look at German painter Gottfried Helnwein's show, which ends today at Modernism. ..."
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+ + + SCHWEIZER ILLUSTRIERTE, AUGUST 1998
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GROSSE KUNST ALS PROVOKATION
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" Der österreichische Fotograf und Kunstmaler Gottfried Helnwein gehört zu den Ausnahme-Künstlern der neueren Zeit. Seine surrealen Bilder, auf denen skurrile Gestalten in makaberen Szenen zu sehen sind, wurden zur Provokation der Pop-art-Bewegung. ..."
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+ + + ART NEWS,
SUMMER 1998
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THE SAN FRANCISCO BEAT
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" As collectors, Kent and Vicki Logan operate like stealth bombers. They only began buying art less than five years ago, and have since disconcerted more than a few dealers by turning up at their galleries unannounced and, over time, dropping millions of dollars. ..." "
There's a ravishing, newly purchased early Hockney, Seated Woman Being Served Tea, in the dining room, and looming above a stairwell is Gottfried Helnwein's powerful Untitled (Child). ..."
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+ + + BERLINER MORGENPOST, 08/20/98
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MIT PROVOKATION IN DEN ERFOLG
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" Die Musiker, wie sie der österreichische Grafiker Gottfried Helnwein sah: Rammstein ..."
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+ + + KRONE MAGAZINE AUSTRIA, 08/13/98
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BILDER EINER SCHRECKLICHEN GEWISSHEIT
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"In den siebziger Jahren hat der Maler Gottfried Helnwein mit seinen Bildern von gequälten, mißbrauchten Kindern ein Tabu gebrochen. Die Bilder schockieren noch immer, obgleich wir hier nur Portraits ausgewählt haben. Sie tun dennoch weh. Sie machen den wirklichen Schmerz vorstellbar: den Schmerz der gequälten mißbrauchten Kinder. ..."
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+ + + NEWS MAGAZINE, AUSTRIA #33/98
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FÜNF MALER DIE DAS VOLK ERREGEN
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"
Austro-Künstler die sich nicht am Publikum orientieren
HERMANN NITSCH - seine Schüttbilder regen immer noch auf, zuletz wegen Sechs-Tage-Mysterienspiel angefeindet.
OTTO MÜHL - schockte zuletzt mit Sex-Motiven. Verwirrter überschüttete in der Seccession ein Werk des Aktionisten.
GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN - seine Bilder von mißhandelten Frauen und Kindern gingen schwer unter die Haut.
FERDINAND MELICHAR - unkonventioneller Maler von Selbstmord-Motiven (Erschießen, Erhängen): nix für jedermann.
ARNULF RAINER - impulsive Übermalungen (zuletz Schauspieler) spalten Kritiker in zwei Lager: Jubel & Ablehnung.
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+ + + TRADE ART MAGAZINE, FINNLAND 05/98
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THE WORLD IS EVIL
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" The exhibition in WA museum of art by the Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein does not make you happy, but it does feel good - in a masochistic way. With his works Helnwein proves that under a sophisticated facade this world is a wretched place to live in. ..."
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+ + + FLASH ART JANUARY/FEBRUARY 98
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GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN
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"AUSTRIAN-BORN ARTIST Gottfried Helnwein is a brave, often overlooked, and unfairly compared virtuoso of versatility. In his work, he forces us to confront, via his visual wit, brio, and candor, the human face of violence and angst. ..."
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+ + + NEWS MAGAZINE, AUSTRIA #28/98
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RON WOOD: MEINE STONES
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" Vorbild Helnwein. Woods wiederum nennt einen in der Heimat zuletz übel niedergemachten Österreicher als Vorbild: "Gottfried Helnwein hat über die Jahre einen einzigartigen Stil entwickelt und gilt heute als einer der Größten der Welt. Sein grandioses Jagger-Bild aus den Achzigern gilt heute noch als legendär. ..."
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+ + + FLASH ART, SUMMER 97
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GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN
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..." Upon entering the gallery, a large untitled canvas by Helnwein assaults tile viewer, depicting a bandaged little girl falling backwards, amidst a mélée of uniformed policemen and a rowdy crowd of men. ..."
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+ + + Die Welt
29. März 1993
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Foto-Austellung in Bonn: Gottfried Helnwein Faces"
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"Bonn - Die überlebensgrossen, vorwiegend schwarzweissen Porträts internationaler Prominenter würden den Autor der Horror-Selbstbildnisse mit dem aufgerissenen Mund, Der letzte Schrei", nicht verraten, wären sie nicht auch, gewissermassen als Kennzeichen dabei: Hautnah sind von Gottfried Helnwein die den Rahmen von 99 X 55 Zentimetern fast sprengenden Köpfe der bildenden Kunst, der ausübenden Musik, der Literatur, der Bühne und der Politik gestaltet und präsentiert. Sie springen einen an, unausweichlich, oft in dramatischem Licht, bisweilen frontalausgeleuchtet.
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