FILE - In this June 29, 2007 file picture Swiss artist H.R. Giger poses with two of his works at the art museum in Chur, Switzerland. H.R. Giger, who designed the creature in Ridley Scott's sci-fi ...

Swiss artist H.R. Giger (b. 1940), who designed the titular monster in Ridley Scott’s Alien, died Monday at age 74. Born in 1940 in Chur, Switzerland, “H.R. Giger grew up in very dark rooms having ...

Surrealist painter Hans Ruedi Giger, whose designs inspired the creature in Alien and whose otherworldly and often grotesque art graced album covers for Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Debbie Harry and ...

If there was ever an artist who deserved to be featured in a column called Dark Dreams, it’s the late HR Giger, whose dark artistry penetrated the psyche of all of mankind after he designed the ...

Think of the creative minds who originally brought Alien to life and you’ll probably think of Ridley Scott or Sigourney Weaver or Dan O’Bannon. One person who may not be on your radar, but who was ...

Bellmer understood the body as an erotic landscape in which he explored the boundaries of sexuality, identity, and social order. His monstrously erotic Doll (1934), a fragmentary yet voluptuous ...

On June 20, 1998, the MUSEUM HR GIGER opened its doors in the medieval Château St. Germain in the 400 year old historic, walled city of Gruyères, Switzerland. As the permanent home to many of Giger's ...

The Oscar-winning Swiss set and creature designer of Ridley Scott's "Alien" died following a fall in his Zurich home. By The Associated Press H.R. Giger - P Sandra Mivelaz, administrator of the H.R.