3817 - Alfred Helberger, collection of prints

Alfred Helberger, collection of prints five sheets depicting landscapes and a market scene, lithographs/colour lithographs on Japanese paper, c. 1920, each signed in lead beneath the image ‘A. Helberger", minor imperfections, image dimensions max. approx. 21.5 x 29 cm, sheet dimensions approx. 37 x 46 cm. Artist’s biography: born Alfred Hermann Helberger, German painter and printmaker (1871, Eberstadt - 1946, Berlin); studied at the Städel Institute in Frankfurt am Main from 1889 to 1890 and at the Karlsruhe Academy under Gustav Schönleber from 1890 to 1896; Ernst Schurth and Carlos Grethe; settled in Berlin from around 1900; undertook study trips to Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Brazil and Norway; spent time in Paris in 1905 and was influenced by French Impressionism, later turning to Fauvism; In 1937, he was denounced as ‘degenerate’; he was a member of the Allgemeine Deutsche Kunstgenossenschaft and the Verein Berliner Künstler, and worked in Berlin. Source: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Dressler, records of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts in Berlin and Wikipedia.