H.R.Giger is one of the most famous artists, in the realm of fantasy art. He was born to a chemist’s family in 1940, in Switzerland, he moved to Zurich in 1962 and studied architecture and industrial design at the school of applied arts.
By 1964 he was producing his own artwork, which was mainly ink drawings but his real work started when he discovered the airbrush. This instrument combined with his own unique style lead him to fame for his surrealistic biomechanical dreamscapes. Giger’s most famous book, Necronomicon, was published in 1977, as it was the inspiration behind Ridley Scott’s film Alien. For this he won an Oscar in 1980 for best achievement in visual effects, for the designs of the alien and its life cycle and the environments that surrounded it.
Sculpture was also a big part of Giger’s work, extending the work he did on paper into the third dimension. In 1988 he was given the chance to design his own first total environment, a Giger bar in Tokyo Japan. By 1998 he had opened a museum in the chateau St. Germain,, in the old city of Gruyeres, Switzerland. This is a permanent home for many of the artist’s more prominent paintings, sculpture and furniture’s.
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