Report: HR Giger is dead

[Ichingcarpenter]

Source: SRF' Swiss newspaper translated

The Swiss artist HR Giger is dead This reports the SRF . Accordingly, he died on Monday in hospital injuries he had sustained in a fall.

Giger came in 1940 in Chur to the world. From 1962 he studied at the Academy of Applied Arts in Zurich architecture and industrial design. Fame of the artist as a production designer and costume designer for the movies "Alien" and "Species". In 1980 he was awarded for his work on "Alien" the Oscar for Best Visual Effects.

For the Hollywood flick "Prometheus" of 2012 had Giger designed one of the spaceships. reawakened The hype surrounding him was the artist then unpleasant. Opposite Tagesanzeiger.ch / Newsnet he said: "I am not like being the center." (kpn)



Read more: http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/kultur/kino/Bericht-HR-Giger-ist-tot-/story/10859595

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[Ichingcarpenter]

1. found an english link

swissinfo.ch
May 13, 2014 - 09:18
The renowned Swiss artist H.R. Giger has died at the age of 73, following injuries sustained in a fall, Swiss public television, SRF, has reported. Giger was most famous for the alien monster he created for the movie of the same name.
SRF cited family sources. In the art world, Giger, who focused during his career on the fantastic realism and surrealistic genres, is best known for his contribution to the film Alien. The monster he created for Ridley Scott’s film earned him an Oscar for special effects in 1980.

His talent for scaring movie audiences was repeated in Poltergeist 2 (1986), Alien 3 (1992) and Species (1995). Computer game fans were able to enjoy his work in Dark Seed in 1995.

His film work was just one facet of his talent, though. Giger is also known for his sculptures, paintings and furniture.










http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/culture/Alien_creator_H.R._Giger_is_dead.html?cid=38569780

[jmowreader]

2. I remember the Dead Kennedys controversy

The DKs (a San Francisco punk band) released the Frankenchrist album. It was a good album, but the band had inserted a print of Giger's "Landscape #XX" aka "Penis Landscape," which is pretty much what it sounds like. The resulting obscenity trial almost bankrupted their record label.

[Ghost Dog]

11. Penises are obscene? In nature? In works of art?

Or is it sick societies that are increasingly so?

I visited, it would have been summer 2001, the H.R. Giger Museum, inaugurated summer 1998 in the Château St. Germain, a four-level building complex in the historic, medieval walled city of Gruyères, CH. Highly recommended.

[SansACause]

16. I've been there, too

I was on a bus tour of Switzerland and I didn't even know the museum was in Gruyeres. We only had an hour to tour, but I could have spent all day there. Amazing!

[jmowreader]

18. Google the painting

It depicts rows of penises (one wearing a condom) entering vaginas. I don't think penises are obscene, but many people would consider the painting to be porn.

[DBoon]

17. And resulted in the break-up of the band

Interesting that one of the band's most vocal supporters was Frank Zappa.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

3. This guy was a real gift.

[tishaLA]

4. This is how I first learned of him...

[Nihil]

9. My first encounter was via ELP's Brain Salad Surgery cover

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_Salad_Surgery


RIP to a brilliant artist.

[Unknown Beatle]

5. Lead singer Jonathan Davis

of the group Korn uses a mike stand designed and made by H.R. Giger.

[nikto]

6. Some talented artist or photshopper...

Should do a tribute cartoon showing the Alien creature shedding a tear
with Giger's name and birth and death years shown, with "farewell".

JMO.

[nikto]

8. The artist and a famous creation

[nikto]

19. R.I.P.

[dipsydoodle]

7. He was a genius

RIP

[penndragon69]

10. I can't wait to see

what his coffin will look like !

Imagine finding that 150 years later.

[OnyxCollie]

12. H.R. Geiger, William S. Burroughs, and I

all share the same birthday.

Now all my heroes are dead.

[blackspade]

13. RIP.

[kentauros]

14. Pass gently, Hans.

On another Giger thread, I found this quote and I have to say I agree with him

"My paintings seem to make the strongest impression on people who are, well, who are crazy," Giger said in a 1979 interview with Starlog magazine. "If they like my work they are creative ... or they are crazy."

[Third Doctor]

15. I've always loved his work.