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 ...

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 ...

Trying to introduce the subject of a man who needs no introduction is difficult, so we'll keep things simple: the man who designed the alien for Ridley Scott's seminal movie is, tragically, dead. HR ...

The Swiss artist, H.R. Giger, who designed the monster in the horror film "Alien", has died aged 74 after a fall. Giger was best known for his xenomorph alien design in Sir Ridley's sci-fi horror ...

Influential surrealist painter H. R. Giger hypnotized audiences with his Oscar-winning visual creatures in Ridley Scott’s sci-fi classic "Alien" and altered the pop culture landscape forever with his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. H.R. Giger poses with a prototype of his Xenomorph design for 'Alien.' The artist hoped to feature translucent version of the ...

Born Feb. 5 in mountainous Chur, Switzerland, in 1940, H.R. Giger lived in an idyllic childhood in one of the most beautiful places on Earth. But it harbored forbidding structures and estranged ...

Surrealist Swiss painter H.R. Giger, who died on May 12th at age 74, is perhaps best known for inspiring the design of the creature in the Alien movie franchise, also had a long and deep connection ...