Adolf Helmberger

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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

  1. ↑ Liselotte Popelka: From Hurray to the corpse field. Paintings from the war picture collection 1914-1918 . Vienna, 1981, p. 32
  2. ^ Adolf Helmberger - Salzburgwiki. Retrieved March 9, 2020 .
personal data
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