H.R. Giger was born in Chur, Graubünden Canton, Switzerland and got his start with small ink drawings before progressing to oil paintings. His design for the Alien was inspired by his painting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Giger rose to prominence in Zurich with a series of posters and paintings that intertwined ...

Surrealist artist HR Giger died this week, leaving behind a legacy of nightmares that made him a beloved figure of the horror, art and film communities. Giger's works depicted a horrifying marriage of ...

Apart from Ridley Scott, there is one other man who's ideas and designs are synonymous with the "Alien" franchise, H.R Giger. Having the honor of being credited with creating one of films most ...

For more than 40 years, the Swiss surrealist confronted his nightmares by making them ours. Swiss artist H.R. Giger (b. 1940), who designed the titular monster in Ridley Scott’s Alien, died Monday at ...

OSCAR winning artist H R Giger, who designed the creature in Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror classic fil Alien, has died after a fall. Hans Ruedi Giger, 74, a surrealist artist, died in hospital on ...

HR Giger, who has died aged 74, was a painter, sculptor and set designer and the man responsible for the nightmarish, teeth-snapping, acid-dripping creature in the film Alien. Set in a nearish-future, ...