Alien designer HR Giger dies at 74

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H. R. Giger

Painter

Hans Rudolf "Ruedi" Giger was a Swiss surrealist painter, sculptor, and set designer. He was part of the special effects team that won an Academy Award for Best Achievement for Visual Effects for their design work on the film Alien

News: (BBC)

he Swiss artist and designer of Ridley Scott's Alien, H. R. Giger, has died aged 74, a spokesperson at Giger's museum in Gruyere has confirmed.

He died in hospital on Monday after he fell down stairs at his Zurich home.
Born in 1940, Giger was best known for his 'Xenomorph' alien in Scott's sci-fi horror masterpiece for which he won a visual effects Oscar in 1980.

He studied architecture and industrial design in Zurich and was known for creating strange dreamscapes.

Meticulously detailed, Giger's surrealist paintings were usually produced in large formats and then reworked with an airbrush and usually feature scenes of humans and machines fused together.
Giger described his style as "biomechanical".
One of his pieces in particular - Necronom IV - inspired the alien killer in Sir Ridley's hit film.
He also worked on Alien 3 (1992) and, more recently, appeared in a documentary about director Alejandro Jodorowsky's unmade film of the book Dune.
Stewart Jamieson a friend and colleague of the artist said it was "natural that people will look at Alien as being his biggest impact because of its attention but his legacy is far more than that".

"He was one of the primary surrealist artists of his generation," he told the BBC. "He never considered himself a film designer, he was an artist and Alien was a different canvas for him to work on."