Helnwein's Adoration of the Magi

[rich]

 www.helnwein.com/ stc/ghpicts/gh293.jp


"Well, it was so theatrical. You know, I guess pure evil...whoever
designed the Nazi's uniforms was a theatrical genius. And the German
cause was pure evil, that's all there was to it. I don't think there's
been another war like that." --vonnegut?

a young james mason on the left, viggo morgenstern  in the center

were SS uniforms really designed by Hugo Boss (creators of those
Olympia hardon fascist commercials with cute rock young blonde boys)

Helnwein consistently refuses to allow Austria (and Germany) to
whitewash the Hitler years. In 1988, on the 50th anni- versary of
Kristallnacht, he constructed a four-metre-high, hundred-metre-long
"picture wall" of enlarged photographic portraits of young children
and erected the installation in central Cologne between the Museum
Ludwig and the cathedral. He titled the work Selektion - a reference
to those selected to be gassed in the concentration camps. Several
photos got slashed.

that's art I can support
love those austrians