{"id":63304,"date":"2022-07-08T14:19:46","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T14:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artspainter.com\/?p=63304"},"modified":"2022-07-08T14:19:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T14:19:46","slug":"hr-giger-prints-artists-biography-and-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artspainter.com\/blog\/hr-giger-prints-artists-biography-and-history\/","title":{"rendered":"hr Giger Prints Artists Biography and History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oXUdHVGLhwI?autoplay=1&#038;mute=1\"><\/iframe>HR Giger Art Prints, Artists Biography and History<\/p>\n<p>hr giger was an alien artist with a background in industrial design. He studied architecture at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences and industrial design at the School of Design in Zurich. During his later years he painted surrealist images from his own dark imagination. He was influenced by the writings of H.P Lovecraft and J.G Ballard, which inspired him to create many nightmarish images like xenomorphs and facehuggers. If you&#8217;re a fan of sci fi movies and have watched alien you&#8217;ll recognize his work right away. He is most famous for his creation on the Alien series which debuted in 1979. The alien egg has become an iconic symbol in science fiction. His influence can be seen throughout modern Hollywood film as well as popular culture, he is considered one of the most influential artists of our time.<\/p>\n<p>Hans Rudolf &#8220;Ruedi&#8221; Giger was born in Chur, Graub\u00fcnden, Switzerland on February 5th 1940. He spent most of his childhood in Chur spending much of his time drawing, making sculptures and inventing stories about monsters that would come to life from his nightmares. At the age of 13 he began to focus more on art than ever before<\/p>\n<p>HR Giger, the man who designed the monster in the Alien movies, is considered to be one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. HR Giger was born Hans Ruedi Giger on February 5, 1940, in Chur, Switzerland. His father was a pharmacist and his mother was a homemaker.<\/p>\n<p>HR Giger attended the School of Art in Chur until he was 15 years old. He drew constantly and produced a lot of artwork up until this point but it wasn&#8217;t until he moved to Zurich that he found his new calling. In Zurich he studied architecture and industrial design at the School of Applied Arts for four years. He then went on to study at the Academy of Fine Arts.<\/p>\n<p>After graduation in 1966 he became a set designer for the Ballet Company which took him all over Europe. This is when his career as an artist really began to take off. From 1970-75 he worked with Oscar winning director Federico Fellini designing and creating sets for him.<\/p>\n<p>HR Giger&#8217;s work is so unique that it is often described as biomechanical art or surrealism. His art has been featured in galleries all over Europe and the United States including one in New York City called HR Giger Bar where HR Giger himself<\/p>\n<p>hr Giger is a well-known painter, sculptor and set designer of the horror genre. He was born on February 5, 1940 in Chur, Switzerland. His father was a pharmacist who had an interest in the occult and his mother was an artist who encouraged her young son to be creative.<\/p>\n<p>Till the age of 11 he lived with his parents, but then his mother left his father for another man, taking her son with her. Although she was ill at this time, she managed to find work as an artist and continue to encourage her son&#8217;s creativity.<\/p>\n<p>Giger&#8217;s early paintings were inspired by works of surrealist artists like Salvador Dali and Ernst Fuchs as well as by illustrators like Richard Corben and Frank Frazetta. Giger studied architecture at the School of Applied Arts in Zurich, during which time he began experimenting with sculpture and photography. He took many photographs of himself which he used as part of collages that he sold on the streets to make money.<\/p>\n<p>The first photograph created by Giger was made in 1966 when he was 26 years old and it is called &#8220;Self-Portrait with Horns.&#8221; It shows a young man with goat horns holding a skull in front of him. The photograph has become one of the<\/p>\n<p>Here is a brief biography of the artist. H.R. Giger was born in the small town of Chur, located in the eastern Alps region of Switzerland. His mother was a commercial illustrator and his father an archaeologist, which gave him a very early interest in both science and art.<\/p>\n<p>This is where he found his love of painting as well as appreciating the works of Salvador Dali, one of his favorite artists. He also saw himself as an alien and felt like he did not fit in with most people around him. It was these things that helped to make Giger&#8217;s work distinctive, like the way he combined industrial machinery with organic forms to create monster-like aliens.<\/p>\n<p>He began his professional career as an interior designer but soon gave this up to pursue painting full time. He created his first surrealist works while attending the School of Applied Arts in Zurich, Switzerland. He later studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Z\u00fcrich from 1959 to 1961 and then went on to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1963 to 1966*. Also during this time, he met famous Swiss architect Le Corbusier and became involved with the Art Brut movement (also known as outsider art).<\/p>\n<p>The Alien franchise, as well as his own work, has made Giger one of the most widely recognized and prolific artists in the world. He won a number of prestigious awards, including a Grammy for Best Heavy Metal\/Hard Rock Album with Celtic Frost in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>Toward the end of his life, Giger&#8217;s paintings were exhibited at the H.R. Giger Museum (founded in 1997) in Gruyeres.<\/p>\n<p>The Swiss artist H.R. Giger (1940-) is best known for his work in the design and construction of sci fi movie sets, including the alien planet setting for the 1979 film Alien. Giger&#8217;s designs drew heavily on his own nightmares, a process that he chronicled in his book Necronomicon. The book was published posthumously in 2009, with an introduction by horror writer Stephen King.<\/p>\n<p>Tobias Richter was born on February 5, 1974 in Geisingen, Germany and moved to Switzerland at the age of two. He started playing guitar at the age of ten and played in several bands as a teenager. In 1994 he founded the industrial\/electro band &#8220;Die Warzau&#8221; (after H.R. Giger&#8217;s pet name for his wife) with Andreas Schellenberger who had also been a member of the bands Violent Onsen Geisha, The Klinik and Fr\u00e4ulein Mirda &#038; die Tuffel-Gang).<\/p>\n<p>Richter left Die Warzau in 1998 for personal reasons to focus more on his art career which began in 1992 when he took up drawing as therapy against depression and started showing his drawings to friends. 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