Gottfried Helnwein | KÜNSTLER | Biografie | Helnwein acquires a medieval castle close to Cologne and the Rhine-river, where he lives and works untlil his move to Ireland in 1997.Schloss Burgbrohl

Frankfurt, Germany. It was night on the Autobahn and I was going to see Gottfried Helnwein, an artist known as "The Razor-Blade Rembrandt." The artist's assistant, Heinz, was pushing the new Mercedes to 100 miles an hour. This unnerving high-speed delivery, on a highway built by Hitler, seemed an appropriate prelude to meeting an Austrian whose art is a biopsy of post-war Germany, with references to resurgent fascism, mass insanity, suicidal depression and childhood trauma


		GERMAN PORTRAITS OF PAIN, San Francisco Chronicle Barnaby Conrad III July 9, 1992


		Gottfried Helnwein, An artist reminds society of its past Frankfurt, Germany. It was night on the Autobahn and I was going to see Gottfried Helnwein, an artist known as "The Razor-Blade Rembrandt." The artist's assistant, Heinz, was pushing the new Mercedes to 100 miles an hour. This unnerving high-speed delivery, on a highway built by Hitler, seemed an appropriate prelude to meeting an Austrian whose art is a biopsy of post-war Germany, with references to resurgent fascism, mass insanity, suicidal depression and childhood trauma San Francisco Chronicle, GERMAN PORTRAITS OF PAIN, Barnaby Conrad III, July 9, 1992


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