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Thomas Zipp is a German artist, sculptor and installer who lives and works in Berlin.
He graduated from the Staedelschule in Frankfurt and the Slade School of Art in London. Zipp's work comes in the form of paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings and installations.
Gottfried Helnwein is an Austrian-Irish visual artist. He has worked as a painter, draftsman, photographer, muralist, sculptor, installation and performance artist, using a wide variety of techniques and media.
His work is concerned primarily with psychological and sociological anxiety, historical issues and political topics. His subject matter is the human condition. The metaphor for his art is dominated by the image of the child, particularly the wounded child, scarred physically and emotionally from within. His works often reference taboo and controversial issues from recent history, especially the Nazi rule and the horror of the Holocaust. As a result, his work is often considered provocative and controversial.
