![]() ![]() He moved to Zurich in 1962 to study architecture and industrial design at the School of Applied Arts. While his mother encouraged him, his father considered art a "breadless profession" and steered him towards the pharmaceutical business. He showed an early aptitude for art, creating a ghost-ride for friends and neighbours, a corridor of skeletons and monsters made from plaster and cardboard. Hans Rudolf Giger was born in 1940 in Chur, south-eastern Switzerland, the son of a chemist. ![]() "My paintings seem to make the strongest impression on people who are crazy," he once said, "If they like my work they are creative. His hybrid creations combined mineral, man and machine to create surrealistic creatures in nightmarish landscapes. HR Giger, the Swiss artist best known for the biomechanical designs which defined the film Alien, has died following a fall at his home in Zurich. ![]()
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