Lot 130: By the Wolfgangsee in Austria

Helmberger, Adolf
St. Gilgen 1885 - St. Gilgen 1967
By the Wolfgangsee in Austria
Oil/canvas, 38,5 x 46 cm, lo. le. sign. a. dat. A. Helmberger 1961, on the stretcher titled 'Uferweg am Wolfgangsee'. - Austrian landscape painter. H. studied in Salzburg under F. Kulstrunk, thereafter at the Vienna academy under Chr. Griepenkerl. During WW I he worked as war painter. Later he mainly painted bright landscapes from the Salzkammergut. - Mus.: Wien. - Lit.: Vollmer.