Adolf Helmberger
Adolf Helmberger (born June 8, 1885 in Sankt Gilgen , † August 12, 1967 ibid) was an Austrian portrait and landscape painter .
Life
Helmberger was trained in Salzburg and at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts from Christian Griepenkerl and Alois Delug . From 1922 he was a member of the cooperative of visual artists in Vienna.
When the First World War broke out , Helmberger was classified as disabled due to a hearing impairment, although he had previously completed his military service as a one-year volunteer . In August 1915 he applied for admission as a war painter to the art group of the Austro-Hungarian War Press Quarters , which was granted immediately because in autumn 1915 he was already working on the Russian front and later with the 14th Army Corps on the Southwest Front . In 1916 he worked in the area of Monte Piana , in the Rocchetta and Adamello groups and in the Fassaner Alps. In autumn 1917 he was on the Isonzo front with Flitsch . One of his best-known representations is probably that of the highest artillery position of the Austro-Hungarian Army on the Ortler . After the First World War, he mainly created impressionistic landscapes from the Salzkammergut.
Works (selection)
- Field guard on Cima Presana , 1916. Oil on canvas, 58.5 × 51.5 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna.
- Mountain battery on the Ortlerspitze , 1916, oil on canvas, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Vienna.
literature
- Liselotte Popelka: From hurray to the corpse field. Paintings from the war picture collection 1914-1918 . Vienna, 1981
Individual evidence
- ↑ Liselotte Popelka: From Hurray to the corpse field. Paintings from the war picture collection 1914-1918 . Vienna, 1981, p. 32
- ^ Adolf Helmberger - Salzburgwiki. Retrieved March 9, 2020 .
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SURNAME | Helmberger, Adolf |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 8, 1885 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Sankt Gilgen |
DATE OF DEATH | August 12, 1967 |
Place of death | Sankt Gilgen |