Giger's Alien Monster III, references Max Von Moos' "Devil's Kitchen (or Stalingrad)" ?

HR Giger's Alien Monster III, 1978 along side Max Von Moos' Teufelsküche (auch: Stalingrad), from 1944

 

 

leading from

Giger's Alien Monster III
and
Max Von Moos

Giger's Alien Monster III, 1978

a) Discovery 
 I had the idea some years ago that I realise that Alien Monster III must have been inspired by something slightly Picasso-esque as a homage to some sort of an artist,  just as I worked out that Giger's Alien Monster IV was a homage to Jean Delville's Treasures of Satan in the 1990s but at least it was a significant point of reference

 

Max Von Moos' Teufelsküche (auch: Stalingrad), from 1944

c) Realisation after a passing
After HR Giger had finally passed on, I took a look at an article from in Kunst Nachrichten from Feb 1973 where Giger in an interview mentioned the names of some people that inspired him, and so my attention was drawn to Max Von Moos's name and his artwork fit the bill, something almost Picasso-esque, and then suddenly on Friday June 2014 I discovered this painting by Von Moos called Teufelsküche (auch: Stalingrad from 1944, and there are enough interesting similarities.

 

 

 

heads from Giger's Alien Monster III and Max Von Moos'  
Teufelsküche (auch: Stalingrad), from 1944, with similar 
pointed ear like shape

comparison between clay sausage gnome like lemures 
and side pipes from Teufelsküche turned on their side

 

 

 

comparison between other clay sausage lemures and
strange black bent pipe like thing with single red eye