Helmut Kolle
Helmut Kolle was a German painter who found major success in France in the 1920s, fusing the German modernist style with that of French painting.
Kolle was born in BerlinCharlottenburg, the second son of the noted bacteriologist Wilhelm Kolle and Helene Alwine Brigl. His father initially worked at Robert Kochs Berlin institute and then relocated to Bern in Switzerland with his family in 1906. There Kolle also received some instruction in painting and drawing.
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