| Alfred Helberger Alfred Helberger was born May 23, 1871 in Germany. After studies in Frankfurt och Karlsruhe he moved to Berlin where he found a studio at Kurfürstenstrasse. He visited Paris in 1905 where he was influenced by the impressionists, and later by the fauvists. While the artists of "Die Brücke" painted their colouristic landscapes in Dangast and Moritzburg, Helberger stayed in Berlin and painted motifs from the city. Helberger made early trips to Norway, Svalbard, Denmark, Holland, and Portugal, and was impressed by Munch and Hodler. When World War I broke out 1914 Helberger, as well as August Macke and Franz Marc, were summoned to military service. |
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After the war Helberger returned to Berlin, now a melting pot from which the history of Europe emerged. Here the ideas were formed, the art created, and the history made. During the middle of the 30s the political climate becomes harsher in Germany, and Helberger, along with Max Liebermann and Emil Nolde, are denied to paint the members of the Nazi Government. Helberger becomes expelled from the "Verein Berliner Künstler", and his work after 1936 is done in secrecy. Shortly before the fall of Hitler's "Third Reich" Helberger's wife, who is jewish, is executed in a concentration camp. Nine months later Helberger commits suicide in Berlin 1946. |
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