Alfred Helbergerartist • painterFrankfurt am Main (Duitsland) 1871-1946 Berlijn

lfred Helberger was one of Berlin's most prolific and important painters in the 1920s. Initially strongly influenced by French Impressionism, his work would later come increasingly under the influence of Fauvism. Helberger painted Berlin street life, weekly and Christmas markets, cafés and dance halls, and the rural surroundings of Berlin. But it was above all Norway and the Danish island of Bornholm, where he spent half the year in his own home starting in 1905, that held a great attraction for him. The landscapes he painted during his many stays on the island comprise a large part of his oeuvre. With the rise of National Socialism, his art was labeled 'Entartete Kunst' (degenerate art) in 1933, and he was expelled from the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts.