Hans Ruedi Giger

Hans Ruedi Giger 5 February 1940 – 12 May 2014 was a Swiss artist.His work is on permanent display at the H.R. Giger Museum in Gruyeres, Switzerland. His style has been adapted to many forms of media, including album covers, furniture, tattoos and video games. Brain Salad Surgery is the fourth studio album by English progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer released on 7 December 1973.H. R. Giger is recognized as one of the world’s foremost artists of Fantastic Realism. Born in 1940 to a chemist’s family in Chur, Switzerland, he moved in 1962 to Zurich, where he studied architecture and industrial design at the School of Applied Arts. By 1964 he was producing his first artworks, mostly ink drawings and oil paintings, resulting in his first solo exhibition in 1966, followed by the publication and world-wide distribution of his first poster edition in 1969. Shortly after, he discovered the airbrush and, along with it, his own unique freehand painting style, leading to the creation of many of his most well known works, the surrealistic Biomechanical dreamscapes, which formed the cornerstone of his fame. To date, more than 20 books have been published about Giger’s art.“Hans Ruedi” Giger, known to the World as H.R. Giger, passed away on Monday, 12 th May 2014 at the age of 74.