Hans Ruedi Giger ( ; ; 5 February 1940 – 12 May 2014) was a Swiss artist best known for his airbrushed images of humans and machines connected in cold biomechanical relationships.
His style has been adapted to many forms of media, including album covers, furniture, and tattoos. ==Early life== Giger was born in 1940 in Chur, the capital city of Graubünden, the largest and easternmost Swiss canton.
He moved to Zürich in 1962, where he studied architecture and industrial design at the School of Applied Arts until 1970. ==Career== Giger's first success was when H.
He studied interior and industrial design at the School of Commercial Art in Zurich from 1962–1965, and made his first paintings as art therapy. ==Other works== Giger directed a number of films, including Swiss Made (1968), Tagtraum (1973), Giger's Necronomicon (1975) and Giger's 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.
Kunz, co-owner of Switzerland's first poster publishing company, printed and distributed Giger's first posters, beginning in 1969. Giger's style and thematic execution were influential.
He moved to Zürich in 1962, where he studied architecture and industrial design at the School of Applied Arts until 1970. ==Career== Giger's first success was when H.
Giger Museum, a permanent repository of his work. ==Personal life== Giger had a relationship with Swiss actress Li Tobler until she died by suicide in 1975.
He was part of the special effects team that won an Academy Award for the visual design of Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi horror film Alien.
He married Mia Bonzanigo in 1979; they divorced a year and a half later. Giger lived and worked in Zürich with his second wife, Carmen Maria Scheifele Giger, who is the director of the H.R.
His design for the Alien was inspired by his painting Necronom IV and earned him an Oscar in 1980.
He is also well known for artwork on several music recording albums including How The Gods Kill 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 by Triptykon, Deborah Harry's KooKoo, and Frankenchrist, by the Dead Kennedys. In 1998, Giger acquired the Saint-Germain Castle in Gruyères, Switzerland, which now houses the H.R.
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Giger was admitted to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2013.
Hans Ruedi Giger ( ; ; 5 February 1940 – 12 May 2014) was a Swiss artist best known for his airbrushed images of humans and machines connected in cold biomechanical relationships.
Giger Museum. On 12 May 2014, Giger died in a Zürich hospital after suffering injuries from a fall.
On the one year anniversary of his death, the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City staged the series The Unseen Cinema of HR Giger in May 2015. H.
In July 2018, the asteroid 109712 Giger was named in his memory. ==Style== Giger started with small ink drawings before progressing to oil paintings.
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