H. R. Giger (1940–2014)
Auteur van HR Giger ARh
Over de Auteur
Fotografie: JaSunni
Werken van H. R. Giger
H. R. Giger : Passagen : [Werkkatalog 1971-1974] 1 exemplaar
H.R. Giger 1995 Calendar of the Fantastique 1 exemplaar
HR Giger : the oeuvre before alien, 1961-1976 1 exemplaar
HR Giger art 1 exemplaar
H.R. Giger Skizzen 1985 1 exemplaar
HR Giger in Prague 1 exemplaar
H.R. Giger Revealed 1 exemplaar
Tarot 1 exemplaar
Passagen 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Giger, H. R.
- Officiële naam
- Giger, Hans Ruedi
- Geboortedatum
- 1940-02-05
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2014-05-12
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- Switzerland
- Geboorteplaats
- Chur, Graubünden, Switzerland
- Plaats van overlijden
- Zürich, Switzerland
- Woonplaatsen
- Zurich, Switzerland
- Opleiding
- School of Applied Arts, Zurich, Switzerland
- Beroepen
- painter
sculptor
set designer
film director - Relaties
- Giger, Carmen Maria Scheifele (wife)
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Academy Award for Visual Design (1980)
Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall Of Fame (2013)
Inkpot Award (1979) - Korte biografie
- H.R. Giger was born in Chur, Switzerland, in 1940. As a child he developed a strong passion for all things surreal and macabre. His need to express himself and share the unique aspects of his powerful imagination drew him to the visual arts. Giger's own dreams and the brilliant imagery of such fantastic geniuses as Gustav Meyrink, Jean Cocteau, Alfred Kubin and H.P. Lovecraft combined to form a rich soil from which the amzing imagery of Giger's own art has come to sprout. It has since bloomed into the vast wealth of exotic women, wondrously bizarre landscapes, and frightening creatures that have captured the fascination of millions of fans worldwide.
Meticulously detailed, Giger's paintings are usually done in large formats and worked and reworked by this maestro of the airbrush. It was Giger's popular art book, ‘Necronomicon', that caught the eye of director Ridley Scott as he was searching for the right look for a creature in his upcoming film. That creature, of course, turned out to be the Alien, and Giger's masterful designs for the film of the same name garnered him a much-deserved Academy Award.
Giger's fascinating biomechanical style, that brilliant synthesis of flesh and machine, has been realized not only through his remarkable paintings but also via sculpture pieces, elegantly fashioned furniture, and architectural and interior design projects. His paintings have been displayed in galleries and museums throughout the world.
Giger's alien aesthetic, his ‘biomechanics', goes beyond talent, and even art. It enters the rarified realm of the near magical, and certainly the land of genius. The ensuing art is a mere taste of the phenomenal oeuvre that this unique Swiss maestro has created.
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Giger is an absolutely fascinating overview of the artist's life and work by the artist himself. Copious illustrations and examples of Giger's work accompany the text. Giger talks about his childhood obsessions (suspender fasteners among them), the work he did for Alien and Jodorowsky's unrealized Dune, his love life, his work with airbrush, the Dead Kennedys getting in legal trouble because they included "Landscape XX" (the so-called "Penis Landscape") in one of their records, and more. An intriguing, engaging, fascinating book by and about a very unique artist. It also includes a profoundly trippy foreword by Timothy Leary.… (meer)