CHILDRENS’ PORTRAITS DESTROYED BY KNIVES
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Kölner Stadtanzeiger, Cologne
| 26. October 1988
Gottfried Helnwein’s photography project “Ninth November Night," a spectacular work of art that recalls the destruction of the synagogues during the so-called “Reichskristallnacht,” was itself the target of an attack.
On Monday night an unknown person destroyed all seventeen child portraits with knife slashes. The portraits had been set up between the Museum Ludwig and the Dome of Cologne.
Helnwein had financed the project himself.
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Installation "Ninth November Night", Ludwig Museum , Cologne, 1988
Selektion - Ninth November Night 1988
scanachrome on vinyl.
Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne.
catalogue cover.
Neunter November Nacht 1988
scanachrome on vinyl.
Museum Ludwig, Cologne.
Panel damaged by vandals.
Neunter November Nacht 1988
scanachrome on vinyl.
Museum Ludwig, Cologne.
Panel damaged by vandals.
Selektion - Neunter November Nacht 1988
scanachrome on vinyl.
Museum Ludwig, Cologne.
Panel damaged by vandals.
