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Hans Ruedi Giger (pronounced: GEE-ger) (born at Chur, Grisons canton, February 5, 1940) is a Swiss painter best known for his design work on the film Alien.

1 Work
2 Style
3 Artwork by Giger
4 Uses of Giger's work
5 Artwork inspired by Giger
6 Obscenity lawsuit
7 External links

[edit] Work

Giger's Alien design, inspired by his painting "Necronom V", earned him an Oscar in 1980. His fourth published book of paintings, titled Necronomicon (followed by Necronomicon II in 1985), continued his rise to international prominence, as did the frequent appearance of his art in the magazine Omni. Giger is also well known for artwork on a number of popular records, including Emerson Lake and Palmer's Brain Salad Surgery and Debbie Harry's KooKoo.

[edit] Style

For most of his career, Giger has worked predominantly in airbrush, creating strange monochromatic canvasses depicting surreal, nightmarish landscapes. His most distinctive stylistic innovation is that of a representation of human bodies and machines in a cold, interconnected relationship. His paintings often display fetishistic sexual imagery and are considered disturbing by some. Some of his paintings also feature Satanic imagery, though Giger himself is not known to be a Satanist. He is largely inspired by Salvador Dalí and was a personal friend of Timothy Leary. Giger is perhaps the best known sufferer of night terrors and his paintings are all to some extent inspired by his experiences with that particular sleep disorder. As a matter of fact, he was originally educated as an architect and made his first paintings as a way of self therapy.

[edit] Artwork by Giger

Furniture	Harkonnen Capo Chair for an unproduced movie version of the Dune novel that was originally slated to be directed by Alejandro Jodorowski.
Interior design	Giger Bars in Switzerland's Chur and Gruyères Museum H. R. Giger in Gruyères
Films	Alien Dune Species
Work for recording artists	Celtic Frost Magma Emerson Lake and Palmer Deborah Harry (from Blondie) hide Danzig Atrocity Black Sun Productions KoЯn's Jonathan Davis commissioned Giger to sculpt his microphone stand Designed the stage for Mylene Farmer's 1999 "Mylenium" tour.
Computer games	Dark Seed and its sequel, Dark Seed II, both adventure games for the PC published by Cyberdreams. They were also released for the PlayStation in Japan.

[edit] Uses of Giger's work

Ibanez guitars, has released an Ibanez H.R. Giger signature series. The Ibanez ICHRG2, an Ibanez Iceman, features the work, "NY City VI", and the Ibanez RGTHRG1, has the work "NY City XIX" printed on it.
Carcass used Life Support 1993 for the cover of their 1994 album, Heartwork.

[edit] Artwork inspired by Giger

Giger's art has greatly influenced tattooists and fetishists worldwide.
Novelist William Gibson (who wrote the original script for Alien³) seems particularly fascinated, presenting in Virtual Light a minor character, Lowell, with New York XXIV tattooed across his back.
Yamazaki, a secondary character in Idoru specifically describes the buildings of nanotech Japan as Giger-esque. The cartoonist and cult icon Jhonen Vasquez has said he is a fan of Giger's work in Alien.