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El arte de Gottfried Helnwein

Gottfried Helnwein – “La Novena Noche de Noviembre” fue siempre un tema que frecuentó mi niñez y mi juventud en Viena. Porque nací en 1948, al finalizar la guerra, y Viena era un lugar oscuro y triste en aquel momento. Recuerdo que de niño, pensaba siempre que había nacido en el limbo. Todos se veían deprimidos, muchas casas derrumbadas aún no habían sido reconstruidas. Y nunca se escuchaba a nadie reír o cantar. Parecía que en Austria luego de la guerra, y creo que en Alemania fue muy similar, las personas habían perdido su memoria, habían perdido la capacidad de hablar, de decir, de reflejar. Era demasiado. Y recuerdo un día en el que vi un par de personas pasar caminando frente a mi casa, y se veían realmente diferentes al resto. Eran muy delgados y muy pálidos, y su manera de caminar era curiosa porque se sostenían el uno al otro, muy apretados, y no miraban a nadie, solo miraban al suelo y caminaban rápidamente. Nadie podía decirme quienes eran. Así que me puse muy insistente de niño y no deje de preguntar. Y era obvio que les costara tanto decir esa palabra y darme una respuesta. Pues esta era: “Son Judíos”. mehr

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ReelHeART International Film Festival 2012

Documentary about Helnwein's visualisation of Hannoch Lewin's play "The Child Dreams".

8th Annual ReelHeART International Film Festival June 27-30, 2012 The "Filmmakers Film Festival" mehr

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The Jewish Week

George Robinson

‘Dreaming Child’ an engaging yet frustrating look at a Holocaust-themed collaboration.

We see the painter and designer jousting with the lighting designer over what will prove to be Helnwein’s greatest coup de theater, a hypnotic final-act tableau of dozens of “dead children” suspended in black space. This time there can be little doubt that Helnwein’s judgment is correct; even on screen the effect is startling and eerily beautiful. mehr

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Jonathan Kiefer

First Run Features - Directed by Lisa Kirk Colburn

When the powers behind the 2010 Tel Aviv production of Hanoch Levin's Holocaust opera The Child Dreams sought a designer, it seemed like plain sailing to bring on the Austrian provocateur Gottfried Helnwein, distinguished alumnus of what he calls "the same academy that rejected Adolf Hitler twice—which is, of course, the biggest mistake that any university has ever made in history." mehr

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Claudia Teissig

Treffpunkt Kultur: Neunter November Nacht

ORF, Treffpunkt Kultur, 3. November, um 22.30 Uhr, Barbara Rett prasentiert: Gottfried Helnwein: Der Maler und sein Holocaust-Mahnmal für L.A. Ein Film von Claudia Teissig. Schock-Therapeut: Gottfried Helnwein 50 Jahre nach der Reichspogrom-Nacht - im November 1988 - ließ Österreichs Schockmaler Gottfried Helnwein vor dem Kölner Dom auf eigene Kosten eine Galerie des Schreckens errichten. Hundert Meter lang, jedes der Bilder vier Meter hoch: Fotos von Vier- bis Achtjährigen - der Tod in ihre bleichen Gesichter geschrieben. Kaum war die Bilderstraße errichtet, kam es zu den ersten Beschädigungen. Nun stellt Helnwein seine künstlerische Auseinandersetzung mit dem Holocaust in seiner Wahlheimat Los Angeles aus. Dort fühlt Helnwein sich am "äußersten Punkt im Prozess des Untergangs des Abendlandes" angekommen - und sieht die Stadt als Herausforderung. Für 2004 bereitet er eine große Retrospektive in Pekings "verbotener Stadt" vor. TREFFPUNKT KULTUR hat den Maler in L.A. besucht. mehr

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NTDTV - New Tang Dynasty Television

Famous Austrian designer and artist Gottfried Helnwein designed the set and costumes for “The Child Dreams” Opera. He also presents his work outside the opera. Helnwein says his work and the playwright’s have a strong internal connection. Gottfried Helnwein: “In my work, the center of everything was always the child, the child versus the world of death, the world of corruption, the world of greed and destruction, and the child standing for innocence, purity, and I think that's a spirit of the play.” mehr

Der österreichische Multimedia Künstler Gottfried Helnwein präsentierte am Sonntag anlässlich des 65. Jahrestages der von den Nazis "Reichskristallnacht" genannten Novemberpogrome im "Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance" in Los Angeles. mehr

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Quad Cinema, New York

Gottfried Helnwein and the Dreaming Child opens this Friday (11/23) in New York at the Quad Cinema.

Helnwein has produced an impressive body of work, largely informed by the horrors of the Holocaust. It was the themes and sensitivities of his oeuvre that inspired the Israeli Opera to commission Helnwein’s designs for an ambitious new production. Lisa Kirk Colburn documents the visual artist’s sometime dramatic collaborative process in Gottfried Helnwein and the Dreaming Child (trailer here), which opens this Friday in New York. In a telling historical irony, Helnwein was accepted by the art academy that famously rejected Hitler. Coming of age at a time the Holocaust simply was not discussed in Austria, Helnwein discovered the truth on his own. The revelation profoundly influenced his work both as a student and a mature artist. Images of children in various states of vulnerability reappear over and over in his photo-realist paintings. Not surprisingly, Helnwein had a deep affinity for Hanoch Levin’s allegorical play, The Dreaming Child and its Helnweinesque title character. mehr

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Atlanta Jewish Film Festival AJFF

Lisa Kirk Colburn

Dir. by Lisa Kirk Colburn, USA, in English, Running time: 72 min, 2011.

Gottfried Helnwein and the Dreaming Child is both a visual feast and landmark union of artistic titans Levin and Helnwein, both concerned with the theme of childhood innocence betrayed. mehr

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Akademy of Motion Picture Arts and Science

Ellen M. Harrington

A documentary on the works of Austrian painter Gottfried Helnwein commemorating the Reichskristallnacht.

For the past twenty-four years the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Academy Foundation, in association with the UCLA Film and Television Archive, has presented a series of film programs featuring the outstanding documentaries of the previous year. The film, NINTH NOVEMBER NIGHT, was considered by the Academy’s Documentary Screening Committee to be one of the outstanding documentaries of 2004. It is our wish to include a screening of "Ninth November Night" in this prestigious series on the evening of Wednesday, November 30, 2005. mehr

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Sean Penn talks about the Art of Gottfried Helnwein

"Well, the world is a haunted house, and Helnwein at times is our tour guide through it. I think in anything that is really relevant and emotional art, there is some kind of a mirror that people experience. I don't think that you can recognize a feeling from something that you look at unless it's part of yourself, and so when someone is willing to take on the sadness, the irony, the ugliness and the beauty in the kind of way that Gottfried Helnwein does. Not all of Gottfried's work is on a canvas. A lot of it is the way he's approached life. And it doesn't take someone knowing him to know that. You take one look at the paintings and you say "this guy has been around." You can't sit in a closet - and create this. This level of work is earned." Sean Penn mehr

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