Gottfried Helnwein

(Austrian, born 1948)

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Gottfried Helnwein

Marilyn Monroe, 1992

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Biography

Timeline

1948
Born in Vienna, Austria
1965 - 1969
Studied at the Höheren Graphischen Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt, Vienna
1969 - 1973
Studied painting at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna
1971
Awarded the Kardinal König Prize, the Masterclass prize (Meisterschulpreis) of the University of Visual Art, Vienna, and the Theodor-Körner prize
1977
Seven month stay in the USA
Currently lives and works in Ireland and Los Angeles

Exhibitions

2011
Inferno of the Innocents. Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Retrospective. Santralistanbul, Museum for Contemporary Art, Main Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey (solo)
2010
Gottfried Helnwein: I Was a Child. Friedman Benda Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Ninth November Night. Tel Aviv, Israel (solo)
Decadence Now! Visions of Excess. Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
You never know what will happen next…The collection from 1900-2010. Lentos Museum of Art, Lentos, Austria
Crocker Art Museum Sacramento, CA (solo)
Body and Language: Contemporary Photography from the Albertina Collection. Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
Collector's Choice - Brücken in die Gegenwart. Galerie Kunsthaus Muerz, Austria
That’s all Folks! Cultuurcentrum Brügge, Stadshallen, Bruges, Belgium

Public Collections

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Ludwig Museum Schloss, Oberhausen, Germany
Messner Mountain Museum Firmian, Schloss Sigmundskron, Alto Adige, Italy
Mikki and Stanley Weithorn Collection, New York, NY
Essl Collection, Museum for Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA
Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco, CA
Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
H.R. Giger Museum Collection Chateau St. Germain, Switzerland
Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung Hamburg, Germany