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H.R. Giger

Hans Rudolf "Ruedi" Giger

• Born: February 5, 1940; Chur, Graubünden Canton, Switzerland
• Died: May 12, 2014; Switzerland
• Nationality: Swiss
• Art Movement: Surrealism
• Field: painting, sculpture, design
• Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._R._Giger
• Official site: hrgiger.com

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Hans Ruedi "H.R." Giger was a Swiss painter, whose style was adapted for many forms of media, including record albums, furniture and tattoos.The Zurich-based artist was best known for airbrush images of humans and machines linked together in a cold 'biomechanical' relationship. Later he abandoned airbrush work for pastels, markers, and ink. He was part of the special effects team that won an Academy Award for design work on the film Alien. In Switzerland there are two theme bars that reflect his interior designs, and his work is on permanent display at the H.R. Giger Museum at Gruyères.

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Hans Ruedi Giger (/ˈɡiːɡər/ GHEE-gər; German: [ˈɡiːɡər]; 5 February 1940 – 12 May 2014) was a Swiss painter, whose style was adapted for many forms of media, including record albums, furniture and tattoos. The Zurich-based artist was best known for airbrush images of humans and machines linked together in a cold 'biomechanical' relationship. Later he abandoned airbrush work for pastels, markers, and ink. He was part of the special effects team that won an Academy Award for design work on the film Alien. In Switzerland there are two theme bars that reflect his interior designs, and his work is on permanent display at the H.R. Giger Museum at Gruyères. Giger was born in 1940 in Chur, capital city of Graubünden, the largest and easternmost Swiss canton. His father, a pharmacist, viewed art as a "breadless profession" and strongly encouraged him to enter pharmacy, Giger recalled. He moved to Zürich in 1962, where he studied architecture and industrial design at the School of Applied Arts until 1970. Giger's first success was when H. H. Kunz, co-owner of Switzerland's first poster publishing company, printed and distributed Giger's first posters, beginning in 1969. Giger's style and thematic execution were influential. He was part of the special effects team that won an Academy Award for Best Achievement in Visual Effects for their design work on the film Alien. His design for the Alien was inspired by his painting Necronom IV and earned him an Oscar in 1980. His books of paintings, particularly Necronomicon and Necronomicon II (1985) and the frequent appearance of his art in Omni magazine continued his rise to international prominence. Giger was admitted to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2013. He is also well known for artwork on several music recording albums including Danzig III: How The Gods Kill by Danzig, Brain Salad Surgery by Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Deborah Harry's KooKoo. In 1998, Giger acquired the Château St. Germain in Gruyères, Switzerland, and it now houses the H.R. Giger Museum, a permanent repository of his work. Giger had a relationship with Swiss actress Li Tobler until she committed suicide in 1975. Li's image appears in many of his paintings. He married Mia Bonzanigo in 1979; they divorced a year and a half later. The artist lived and worked in Zürich with his second wife, Carmen Maria Scheifele Giger, who is the Director of the H.R. Giger Museum. On 12 May 2014, Giger died in a hospital in Zürich after having suffered injuries in a fall. In addition to his awards, Giger was recognized by a variety of festivals and institutions. On the one year anniversary of his death, the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City staged the series The Unseen Cinema of HR Giger in May 2015. Dark Star: H. R. Giger's World, a biographical documentary by Belinda Sallin, debuted 27 September 2014 in Zurich, Switzerland. Giger started with small ink drawings before progressing to oil paintings. For most of his career, Giger had worked predominantly in airbrush, creating monochromatic canvasses depicting surreal, nightmarish dreamscapes. However, he then largely abandoned large airbrush works in favor of works with pastels, markers or ink.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._R._Giger More ... Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._R._Giger Official site: hrgiger.com H.R. Giger Artworks

• Sheet from Biomechanoiden H.R. Giger 1969
• Friedrich Kuhn H.R. Giger 1973
• Work Nr. 217 ELP I (Brain Salad Surgery) H.R. Giger 1973
• Work Nr. 217 ELP II (Brain Salad Surgery) H.R. Giger 1973
• Necronom IV H.R. Giger 1976
• Pisces zinc H.R. Giger 1992
• Bierkrieg H.R. Giger 1993
• Study (Alien III) H.R. Giger 1990
• Macht und Ohnmacht H.R. Giger 1987
• Alien III, sideview III (Work No. 372) H.R. Giger 1978
• Trip-Tychon H.R. Giger 1970
• Biomechanoiden H.R. Giger 1969
• No. 250, Li I (detail) H.R. Giger ?

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