exhibition-cataogue
..A clarity of vision in his subject matter was emerging in Helnwein's art that was to stay consistent throughout his career. His subject matter was the human condition. The metaphor for his art, although it included self-portraits, was dominated by the image of the child, but not the carefree innocent child of popular imagination. Helnwein instead created the profoundly disturbing yet compellingly provocative image of the wounded child. The child scarred physically and the child scarred emotionally from within. ...

On Sunday, November 9, at 7:00 p.m. the Museum of Tolerance commemorates the 65th anniversary of the infamous 1938 Nazi “Night of Broken Glass” (Kristallnacht) pogrom which targeted 1,000 synagogues in Germany and Austria and marked the beginning of the end of European Jewry.
The commemoration is highlighted by the screening of a documentary by renowned Austrian artist, Gottfried Helnwein, 9th November Night, who has committed himself and his art to reminding the world of the Holocaust. The documentary is based upon his 1988 exhibit of seventeen children’s portraits that were displayed in commemoration of Kristallnacht in Cologne, Germany. Just days into the exhibit, these portraits were vandalized.. “The fury with which the neo-nazis reacted to these portraits is understandable inasmuch as it is the very same fury with which they have for years been fighting against The Diary of Anne Frank,” said famed Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal. “The murder of children rouses abhorrence and conflict in every human, whether they are motivated by ideology or insanity. The urge to destroy has survived; the portraits bear witness to its rage.” ...

catalogue
essay by Wolfgang Bauer ...

Monograph
texts by Alexander Borovsky, Curator for Modern and Contemporary Art
Peter Selz
Klaus Honnef
William Burroughs
Heiner Müller ...

catalogue
text by Gisela Fiedler-Bender and Georg Dolezal. ...

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. ...

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. ...