The show was seen by 250,000 visitors and was the most successful exhibition of a contemporary artist in the history of the Albertina. In 2013 the Albertina Museum in Vienna organized a retrospective of Helnwein's work. The wedding was officiated by surrealist film director Alejandro Jodorowsky Gottfried Helnwein was best man On 3 December 2005, his friend Marilyn Manson and Dita Von Teese were married in a private, non-denominational ceremony at Helnwein's castle. In 2004 Helnwein received Irish citizenship.
Helnwein has four children with his wife Renate: Cyril, Mercedes, Ali Elvis and Wolfgang Amadeus, who are all artists. In 2002 he established a studio in downtown Los Angeles and he lives and works since then in Ireland and Los Angeles. Helnwein moved to Dublin, Ireland in 1997 and one year later, he bought Castle Gurteen de la Poer in County Waterford. Four years later in 1989 he established a studio in Tribeca New York and thenceforth spent his time between the United States and Germany. He bought a medieval castle close to Cologne and the Rhine-river. In 1985 Rudolf Hausner, recommended Helnwein as his successor as professor of the master-class for painting at the University of Visual Art in Vienna, but Helnwein left Vienna and moved to Germany. When his demand to admit also children to study at the university was rejected, he declined. Helnwein was offered a chair by the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg in 1982.
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In 1983 Helnwein met Andy Warhol in his Factory in New York City, who posed for a series of photo-sessions. He was awarded the Master-class prize ( Meisterschulpreis) of the University of Visual Art, Vienna, the Kardinal-König prize and the Theodor-Körner prize. įrom 1969 to 1973 he studied at the University of Visual Art in Vienna (Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Wien). In the following years he started his first performances for small audiences where he cut his face and hands with razor blades and bandaged himself. ġ965 he enrolled at the "Higher Federal Institution for Graphic Education and Experimentation" in Vienna ( Höhere Bundes-Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt, Wien). As a student he organized plays and art exhibitions at the Catholic Marian Society (Marianische Kongregation) of the Jesuit University Church in Vienna. Helnwein had a strict Roman Catholic upbringing. His father Joseph Helnwein worked for the Austrian Post and Telegraphy administration (Österreichische Post- und Telegraphenverwaltung), and his mother Margarethe was a housewife. Helnwein was born in Vienna shortly after World War II. He lives and works in Ireland and Los Angeles.
Helnwein studied at the University of Visual Art in Vienna (Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Wien). As a result, his work is often considered provocative and controversial. His works often reference taboo and controversial issues from recent history, especially the Nazi rule and the horror of the Holocaust. The metaphor for his art is dominated by the image of the child, particularly the wounded child, scarred physically and emotionally from within. His subject matter is the human condition. His work is concerned primarily with psychological and sociological anxiety, historical issues and political topics. He has worked as a painter, draftsman, photographer, muralist, sculptor, installation and performance artist, using a wide variety of techniques and media. Gottfried Helnwein (born 8 October 1948) is an Austrian-Irish visual artist. Hyperrealism, installation art, performance art Ninth November Night (1988), Epiphany I (Adoration of the Magi) (1996), Disasters of War 3 (2007), The Murmur of the Innocents 14 (2010), I Walk Alone (2003), Peinlich (1971)
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