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Swiss creative person

H. R. Giger
Giger in 2012
Born	Hans Ruedi Giger (1940-02-05)5 February 1940 Chur, Graubünden, Switzerland
Died	12 May 2014(2014-05-12) (anile 74) Zürich, Switzerland
Occupation	Painter, sculptor, set designer, moving picture manager
Style	Science fiction, fantasy, occult, macabre
Spouse(s)	Mia Bonzanigo (1979–81; divorced) Carmen Maria Scheifele (2006–xiv; his death)
Partner(s)	Li Tobler (1966–75)
Website	hrgiger.com

Hans Ruedi Giger ( GHEE-gər; German: [ˈɡiːɡər]; 5 February 1940 – 12 May 2014) was a Swiss creative person best known for his airbrushed images that blended homo physiques with machines, an fine art manner known as "biomechanical". Giger later abased airbrush for pastels, markers and ink. He was function of the special furnishings team that won an Academy Accolade for the visual blueprint of Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi horror moving picture Alien. His piece of work is on permanent display at the H.R. Giger Museum in Gruyères, Switzerland. His style has been adjusted to many forms of media, including album covers, furniture, and tattoos.

Early life [edit]

Giger was born in 1940 in Chur, the capital letter city of Graubünden, the largest and easternmost Swiss canton. His male parent, a chemist, viewed art as a "breadless profession" and strongly encouraged him to enter pharmacy. He moved to Zürich in 1962, where he studied architecture and industrial design at the School of Applied Arts until 1970.^[i]

Career [edit]

Birth Machine sculpture in Gruyères

Giger'due south first success was when H. H. Kunz, co-owner of Switzerland's starting time poster publishing company, printed and distributed Giger's start posters, beginning in 1969.^[two]

Giger's manner and thematic execution were influential. He was part of the special furnishings team that won an University Award for Best Achievement in Visual Effects for their blueprint piece of work on the movie Alien.^{[3] [4]} His design for the Alien was inspired by his painting Necronom Four and earned him an Oscar in 1980. His books of paintings, specially Necronomicon and Necronomicon II (1985) and the frequent appearance of his art in Omni magazine contributed to his rise to international prominence.^[one] Giger was admitted to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2013.^{[5] [half dozen]} He is likewise well known for artwork on several music recording albums including Danzig Three: How The Gods Impale by Danzig, Brain Salad Surgery by Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Attahk by Magma, Heartwork by Carcass, To Mega Therion by Celtic Frost, Eparistera Daimones and Melana Chasmata past Triptykon, Deborah Harry's KooKoo, and Frankenchrist, by the Expressionless Kennedys.

In 1998, Giger caused the Saint-Germain Castle in Gruyères, Switzerland, which now houses the H.R. Giger Museum, a permanent repository of his work.^[seven]

Personal life [edit]

Giger had a relationship with Swiss extra Li Tobler until she died by suicide in 1975.^[eight] Tobler's image appears in many of his paintings. He married Mia Bonzanigo in 1979; they divorced a year and a one-half later.

Giger lived and worked in Zürich with his 2nd wife, Carmen Maria Scheifele Giger, who is the manager of the H.R. Giger Museum.^[9]

On 12 May 2014, Giger died in a Zürich hospital subsequently suffering injuries from a fall.^{[10] [xi] [12] [13]}

Style [edit]

Giger started with modest ink drawings before progressing to oil paintings. For about of his career, he worked predominantly in airbrush, creating monochromatic canvasses depicting surreal, nightmarish dreamscapes. He also worked with pastels, markers and ink.^[1]

Giger'due south nigh distinctive stylistic innovation was that of a representation of human bodies and machines in cold, interconnected relationships, which he described as "biomechanical". His main influences were painters Dado,^[14] Ernst Fuchs, and Salvador Dalí. He was introduced to Dali by painter Robert Venosa. Giger was also influenced by Smoothen sculptor Stanislaw Szukalski, and past painters Austin Osman Spare and Mati Klarwein,^[15] and was a personal friend of Timothy Leary. He studied interior and industrial design at the School of Commercial Art in Zurich from 1962–1965, and made his get-go paintings every bit art therapy.^[1]

Other works [edit]

Entrance to Giger Bar in Chur

Ibanez H. R. Giger signature bass and guitars

Giger directed a number of films, including Swiss Fabricated (1968), Tagtraum (1973), Giger's Necronomicon (1975) and Giger'southward Alien (1979).

Giger created furniture designs, particularly the Harkonnen Capo Chair for a film of the novel Dune that was to be directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky. Many years later, David Lynch directed the picture, using only rough concepts by Giger. Giger had wished to work with Lynch,^[16] as he stated in one of his books that Lynch's moving picture Eraserhead was closer than fifty-fifty Giger's own films to realizing his vision.^[1]

Giger also practical his biomechanical style to interior blueprint. One "Giger Bar" appeared in Tokyo, but the realization of his designs was a slap-up thwarting to him, since the Japanese organization behind the venture did not wait for his last designs, and instead used Giger'southward crude preliminary sketches. For that reason Giger disowned the Tokyo bar.^[17] The two Giger Bars in his native Switzerland, in Gruyères and Chur, were built nether Giger'south close supervision and they accurately reflect his original concepts. At The Limelight in Manhattan, Giger'southward artwork was licensed to decorate the VIP room, the uppermost chapel of the landmarked church, but information technology was never intended to exist a permanent installation and bore no similarity to the bars in Switzerland. The organization was terminated subsequently ii years when the Limelight closed.^[eighteen]

Giger's fine art has greatly influenced tattooists and fetishists worldwide. Nether a licensing deal Ibanez guitars released an H. R. Giger signature series: the Ibanez ICHRG2, an Ibanez Iceman, features "NY City 6", the Ibanez RGTHRG1 has "NY City 11" printed on information technology, the S Series SHRG1Z has a metallic-coated engraving of "Biomechanical Matrix" on it, and a 4-cord SRX bass, SRXHRG1, has "N.Y. City 10" on it.^[one]

Giger is often referred to in pop civilization, especially in science fiction and cyberpunk. William Gibson (who wrote an early script for Conflicting 3) seems particularly fascinated: A minor character in Virtual Light, Lowell, is described as having New York XXIV tattooed beyond his back, and in Idoru a secondary character, Yamazaki, describes the buildings of nanotech Japan as Giger-esque.^{[ citation needed ]}

Films [edit]

• Dune (designs for Alejandro Jodorowsky's unproduced accommodation of Frank Herbert's novel; the separate movie Dune was later fabricated in an adaptation by David Lynch)^[xix]
• Alien (designed, among other things, the Alien animal, "The Derelict" and the "Infinite Jockey")^[xx]
• Aliens (credited for the creation of the creature only)
• Alien three (designed the dog-like Alien bodyshape, plus a number of unused concepts, many mentioned on the special features disc of Alien three, despite not being credited in the movie theater version)
• Alien Resurrection (credited for the creation of the creature simply)
• Alien vs. Predator (credited for the creation of the brute merely)
• Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (credited for the creation of the fauna merely)
• Poltergeist II: The Other Side
• Killer Condom (creative consultant, set design)^{[21] [22]}
• Species (designed Sil, and the Ghost Railroad train in a dream sequence)
• Species Ii (the moving-picture show includes Eve, based on creature Sil from the showtime Species flick)
• Batman Forever (unused design of a radically different Batmobile)^[23]
• Hereafter-Kill (designed artwork for the movie poster)
• Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis (beast designs)^[24]
• Prometheus (The moving picture includes "The Derelict" spacecraft and the "Space Jockey" designs from the first Alien film, besides equally a "Temple" blueprint from the failed Jodorowsky Dune project and original extraterrestrial murals created exclusively for Prometheus, based in conceptual art from Alien. Unlike Alien Resurrection, the Prometheus pic credited H. R. Giger with the original designs.)^[25]
• Alien: Covenant (the picture show includes the Alien creature, "The Derelict" spacecraft and the "Space Jockey" designs from the get-go Conflicting motion picture)
• Kondom des Grauens (makeup consultant)

Work for recording artists [edit]

Jonathan Davis with his microphone stand up

• Celtic Frost: To Mega Therion
• Magma: Attahk
• Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Brain Salad Surgery
• Floh de Cologne: Mumien
• Steve Stevens' Atomic Playboys
• Deborah Harry, portraits for KooKoo anthology encompass and videos "Backfired" and "Now I Know You Know"
• hide: Hide Your Face
• Carcass: Heartwork
• Danzig: Danzig Three: How the Gods Kill
• Dead Kennedys' album Frankenchrist, Poster insert of Mural XX (which led to an obscenity trial)
• Atrocity – Hallucinations
• Korn's Jonathan Davis deputed Giger to design and sculpt a microphone stand, with the requirement that information technology exist biomechanical, erotic, and movable. The contract allowed for five aluminium microphone stands to be fabricated, but Davis purchased only two of the iii to which he was entitled. The pattern of the microphone stand was later adjusted to Giger'south Nubian Queen, transforming information technology into a fine fine art sculpture.^[26]
• Helped to pattern the kickoff professional video prune of "Böhse Onkelz" called "Dunkler Ort" (dark location) from their album Ein böses Märchen ... aus tausend finsteren Nächten, which was released in 2000.
• Ibanez Guitars released a series of H. R. Giger Signature Models with artwork on the body.^[27]
• Isle: "Pictures"
• Triptykon: Eparistera Daimones
• Triptykon: Melana Chasmata

Interior decoration [edit]

• Giger Confined in Switzerland's Chur and Gruyères
• Maison d'Ailleurs (Business firm of Elsewhere) in Yverdon-les-Bains

Video games [edit]

• Games from the Alien franchise, such as Alien: Isolation, Conflicting: Coma, Aliens: Colonial Marines, and Aliens: Fireteam Elite all describe heavily from Giger'due south work on the Xenomorph and other designs.
• Dark Seed and its sequel, Night Seed Ii, both adventure games for the Amiga, Macintosh, and PC, were adult past Cyberdreams and directly based on Giger'due south input.^[28]
• The epic fantasy horror games Tormentum: Dark Sorrow and its upcoming sequel Tormentum II are both based heavily on the works of Giger and Zdzisław Beksiński.
• The upcoming sci-fi horror video game Scorn draws heavy inspiration from Giger's (and Zdzisław Beksiński'due south) work, in item the films Alien and Prometheus.^[29]
• The enemy monsters (notably the bosses) from SEGA Genesis game Gynoug: Wings of Wor are based, or at least inspired, on Giger'southward surrealistic horror manner.

Spider web [edit]

• Alien: Isolation – The Digital Series (the spider web series includes the Alien brute, "The Derelict" and the "Space Jockey", designs from the start Alien motion-picture show)

Recognition [edit]

Street proper name sign in Chur, Switzerland

Giger was awarded the Inkpot Award in 1979.^[thirty]

In add-on to his awards, Giger was recognized past a diverseness of festivals and institutions. On the 1 twelvemonth anniversary of his death, the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City staged the series The Unseen Cinema of 60 minutes Giger in May 2015.^[31]

Dark Star: H. R. Giger's World, a biographical documentary past Belinda Sallin, debuted 27 September 2014 in Zurich, Switzerland.^{[32] [33]}

In July 2018, the asteroid 109712 Giger was named in his memory.^[34]

References [edit]

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External links [edit]

• Official website
• Museum HR Giger
• Williamson, Marcus (14 May 2014). "HR Giger: Creative person hailed for his surrealistic creatures in nightmare landscapes who won an Oscar for his piece of work on 'Conflicting'". The Independent. Obituary.
• H. R. Giger at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• H. R. Giger at IMDb
• H. R. Giger at Library of Congress Authorities

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