Cover: "Kindskopf" ("Head of a Child"), photography by Gottfried Helnwein
He increasingly used photography, a medium that had accompanied his artistic work from the beginning. Initially employed for documentary purposes, it developed dynamics of its own. While in his paintings, Helnwein showed an unparalleled photographic sophistication to render his artistic concepts as realistically as possible, his photographic works used often minuscle changes in light and camera setting to merge the different realities of the visable and invisable. ...

Helnwein gehört mittlerweile zu den international populärsten Malern der Gegenwart. Seine künstlerischen Ursprünge liegen allerdings in seiner österreichischen Heimat: Mit dem Magischen Realismus Hausners verbindet ihn die ins Surreale gehende Überzeichnung des Bildgegenstandes, mit Hermann Nitsch und dem Wiener Aktionismus der Hang zur Inszenierung von Blut, Gewalt und Perversion. ...