Gottfried Helnwein *

(born in Vienna in 1948)
“Purple Mouse”, 2010, signed and dated G. Helnwein 2010 IRELAND, acrylic and oil on canvas, 155 x 221 cm, framed
“I drifted through that shadowy world as if in a Valium haze until one day my father came home from the office, placed a parcel wrapped in brown packing paper down in front of me, and cut the string holding it together with his pocket knife.
Before my eyes, the colorful splendor of the first German Mickey Mouse
comic books spilled out onto the hardwood floor.”
Gottfried Helnwein

Excerpt from: Time Magazine, Memories of Duckburg, 12 May 1989.

"Imaginations and illusions are always so much more powerful and bigger than this mediocre and boring thing called reality."
Gottfried Helnwein