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5th August 2004

Evening Echo

"LANDSCAPE IN THE FRAME AT CRAWFORD"

Austrian artist's extreme realist paintings on show in Cork

A SPECTACULAR Exhibition which includes Irish Landscapes by the internationally renowned Austrian Artist is cauring a stir at the Crawford Municipial Art Gallery in Cork

Gottfried Helnwein, who has exhibited all over the world, is showing a number of large-scale photograph-like canvases depicting gorgeous European and American lanscapes at the gallery until September 4

Helnwein, who was born in 1948 and educated in post war Vienne divides his time between Co Tippeary and Los Angeles in the United States.

His paintings draw upon the beauty and drama of these contrasting environmetns as well as revealing the parallels of different terrains.

His landscapes were described as "gorgeous" and "pure delicous spectacle" by the exhibitions officer at the Crawford, Dawn Williams..

 


Evening Echo,
Edel O'Connell,
5th August 2004


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