Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
Lakeview Museum of Arts and Science, Peoria, Illinois
Nexus Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, Georgia
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland
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...the portraits of Hendrix, Joplin, and Lennon are particulary stirring because their ghostlike treatment translates as a poetic and humble tribute to major creative forces whose lives were tragically cut short. As exemplified by the paintings of Helnwein, the purpose of a contemporary rock and roll portrait may extend well beyond biographical signification to stimulating reflection upon larger issues of social or political consequence. ...

catalogue
Cover and page 2 and 3 : Helnwein, detail from: "Selection, Ninth November Night"
Masterpieces of the Ludwig Collection from antiquity to present day. ...

catalogue
kunst in europa - 16 Künstler in Deutschland / Ausstellungskatalog 1994/95
Armando, Cornec, Costa Pinheiro, Elgin, Geismar, Grützke, Helnwein, Kirkeby, Legrand, Mira, Moronti, Newman, Palavrakis, Salolainen, Smith, Wolff. (32 farbige Abbildungen)
Text von Tayfun Belgin
(ISBN 3-923806-62-0)

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"The Decade of Painting"
group show

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The Gazette, Montreal
Ann Dunkan
CENT JOURS BEGINS NINTH SEASON
To inaugurate the new exhibition space, which has to be one of the most dramatic in the city, Gosselin chose a powerful show of black-and-white photos by the Viennese-born German artist Gottfried Helnwein. Helnwein's work is everything that Annie Leibovitz's, shown last spring at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, is not. While both shoot celebrities - Helnwein's subjects include Keith Richards, Michael Jackson, Mick Jagger, William S.Burroughs, and an extremly wasted Andy Warhol - Helnwein's work is concentrated on the Psychological rather than on the gimmicky and the theatrical. ...

Gottfried Helnwein organized the first museum retrospective exhibition of the works of CARL BARKS.
The Show "Die Ente ist Mensch geworden" consisted of more than 400 original art works,
290 from the collection of Gottfried Helnwein. ...

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group show
catalogue
Dieser Katalog begleitet eine Ausstellung im Rahmen der Fototage 1993 im Deutschen Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt am Main.
Die folgende Ausstellungstournee wurde im Rheinischen Landesmuseum in Bonn eröffnet.
Herausgegeben von Ulrike Gauss, Barbara Hofmann, Klaus Honnef und Reinhold Mißelbeck ...