Galerie Helbing (Q4269)

The Hugo Helbing auction house, headquatered in Munich, also held branch offices in Frankfurt and Berlin and occasionally organized auctions abroad. Helbing (1863-1938) was by far the most important art auctioneer in the German speaking countries between c. 1900 and the mid-1930s, with some 800 auctions. He was murdered during the “November Pogroms“ in 1938 and his company was aryanized. For more