Legendary CELTIC FROST, CARCASS, DANZIG Artist H.R. Giger Passes
May 13, 2014, 10 years ago
According to 680news.com, Swiss artist H.R. Giger, who designed the creature in Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror classic Alien and created legendary artwork for Celtic Frost, Carcass, Danzig, and Triptykon, has died at age 74 from injuries suffered in a fall, his museum said Tuesday.
Sandra Mivelaz, administrator of the H.R. Giger museum in Gruyeres, western Switzerland, told The Associated Press that Giger died in a hospital on Monday.
Giger’s works, often showing macabre scenes of humans and machines fused into hellish hybrids, influenced a generation of movie directors and inspired an enduring fashion for “biomechanical” tattoos.
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(H.R. Giger Photo by Katharina Vonow)
