HELNWEIN, GOTTFRIED
1948 Vienna

Title: Selbstportät 10.
Date: 1986.
Technique: Acrylic and oil on canvas.
Measurement: 210 x 149cm.
Notation: Signed lower left: HELNWEIN.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.


Provenance:
- Private collection North Germany

Exhibitions:
- Mittelrhein-Museum, Koblenz 1986
- Galerie Würthle, Vienna 1987
- Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren 1987

Literature:
- Exhib. cat. Gottfried Helnwein, Leopold-Hösch Museum, Düren/Galerie Würthle, Vienna/Mittelrhein-Museum, Koblenz 1987, ill.
- Helnwein, Gottfried/Gorsen, Peter: Der Untermensch, Selbstbildnisse, Self-portraits, Autoporteaits 1970-1987, Jugend & Volk Verlagsgesellschaft, Vienna (in co-operation with Edition Braus), Heidelberg 1988, ill.

- Helnwein is known for his socially critical and emotionally stirring works
- Since the 1970s, intensive preoccupation with the depiction of the self as an expression of human vulnerability
- Two-dimensional painting style with implied facial features creates a haunting reflection on identity and transience.