Gottfried Helnwein, The Child, Robert Flynn Johnson, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Helnwein's subject matter is the human condition. The metaphor for his art is dominated by the image of the child, but not the carefree innocent child of popular imagination. Helnwein instead creates the profoundly disturbing yet compellingly provocative image of the wounded child. The child scarred physically and the child scarred emotionally from within.
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Gottfried Helnwein, Ninth November Night, Selection, photo installation
Gottfried Helnwein, Selection - Ninth November Night, photo installation, 1988

 

 

 

Ninth November Night

NINTH NOVEMBER NIGHT

Selektion - Neunter November Nacht
Helnwein erected this installation originally in fall 1988 in the city of Cologne in Germany, on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the pogrom-night of November 9, 1938. The Installation was placed between the Cologne Cathedral and the Ludwig Museum, alongside the railroad track of the central station. It was entirely financed by the artist.
A hundred meter long wall of pictures with large images of children's faces, in a seemingly endless row, as if made to line up to be "selected". With the faces of christian, jewish and handicapped children, that lived in Germany in 1988. In the second night after the opening, unknown people cut all the throats of the children on the pictures.

Ninth November Night has been shown at the following locations:

Tel Aviv, Israel, 2010

Philadelphia, 2008

Marmorpalast des Russischen Museums in St. Petersburg, 1997

Museum of Fine Art, Otaru, Japan, 1996

Kulturbrauerei, Berlin, 1996

Ludwig Museum Schloss Oberhausen, 1995

Museum St. Ingbert, Albert Weisgerber Stiftung, Saarbrücken, 1993

Zentrum von Heilbronn, 1992

Musee' De L' Elysee Lausanne, 1990

Zwischen Museum Ludwig und dem Kölner Dom, 1988

 

 

Gottfried Helnwein - Neunter November Nacht
Ninth November Night, 2010, Installation, Tel Aviv, Israel

 

 

Gottfried Helnwein - Neunter November Nacht
Ninth November Night, 2010, Installation, Tel Aviv, Israel

 

Gottfried Helnwein - Neunter November Nacht
Ninth November Night, 2010, Installation, Tel Aviv, Israel

 

Gottfried Helnwein - Neunter November Nacht
Selection - Ninth of November Night, 1988, scanachrome on vinyl, Installation, Museum Ludwig, Cologne

 


Selection - Ninth of November Night, 1988, scanachrome on vinyl, Installation, Museum Ludwig, Cologne

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Helnwein - Die Stille der Unschuld" (Helnwein, the Silence of the Innocence)
Claudia Schmid, Deutschland 2009, 116 Min.


Helnwein talks about is Installation Ninth November Night

 

 

Installation Ninth November Night, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 1988

Reinhold Mißelbeck, Curator for Photography and new media, Museum Ludwig cologne

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