1975 -1985 Helnwein works on a series of pen-and-ink drawings.
"Unser Entenbischof" (Our Duck-Bishop),
"Zwei amerikanische Ärzte behelligen eine Patientin" (Two American Doctors teasing a Patient),
"Mulattin Erika in ihrem Haus" (Mulato-girl Erika in her House),"Das Wannenwunder von Watras" (The Bathtub Wonder of Watras),
"Metallippe zum Lächeln" (Metal Lip for Smiling),
"Das Grubenunglück" (Mine Disaster),
"Korrekturspange" (Corrective Brace),
"Assistent Assmann" (Assistant Assmann),
"Hilfe für Mann ohne Kinn" (Help for Man with no Chin). ...

Gottfried and Ilse Helnwein get divorced.

1974 Theodor Körner Prize.

ZDF (German national TV) film portrait "Helnweins Sehtest" (Helnwein's Eye Test), directed by Heinz Dieckmann.
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"Weisse Kinder" (White Children) Aktion with 15 bandaged children in Kärntnerstrasse, in the centre of Vienna.
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1973 First edition of an etching "Meine Buben haben einen Türken in die Schlucht gestossen" (My Little Rascals Have Shoved a Turk into the Ravine).

Aktion "Sandra" at Gallery over the Stubenbastei, Vienna.

Aktion "Gifttanz" (Poison-Dance), Vienna.
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Self-portrait with Smiling-Aid (Selbstportrait mit Schmunzelhilfe).
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Aktion "Pinocchio".
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Aktion "Hallo Dulder!".
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First cover for the political and cultural magazine "Profil".
"Suicide in Austria" (Selbstmord in Österreich), showing a little girl slashing her wrists. - many readers are outraged and cancel their subscriptions. ...

1972 .
A Helnwein exhibition in the Gallery of the "House of the Press" in Vienna, headquarters of Austrias biggest newspapers, is discontinued after three days because of strong protests by visitors and employees and finally strike threats by the workers council ...

Aktion "Sorgenkind" in Vienna.
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Works on a series of pen and ink, crayon and pencil drawings.

Scratches and scrapes a series of self-portraits and child-photos with luminous stigma.

1971 Kardinal König Prize.

In the exhibition "Zoetus" at the Kunsthalle "Künstlerhaus" in Vienna unidentified people put stickers with the words "Entartete Kunst" (degenerate art) on Helnwein's paintings.

Founding member of the artist group "Zoetus" in Vienna.
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At the opening of an exhibition at Galerie D in Mödling, near Vienna, the mayor has Helnwein's paintings confiscated by the police.
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