CHEMNITZ.- The Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz – Museum Gunzenhauser are showing a retrospective exhibition entitled HELMUT KOLLE. Helmut Kolle. A German in Paris from 7 November 2010 to 1 May 2011. The 90 exhibits in the show will present the life and work of this extraordinary painter. Works on loan from private collections in Germany, France and Greece are complemented by others from the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Musée d’Art et d’Archéologie, Senlis and the Musée de Grenoble. Helmut Kolle, who died at the untimely age of 32 in Chantilly near Paris, produced in just one decade an extensive oeuvre that unified the traditions of German and French painting while unfolding a highly independent position. Kolle’s art clearly mirrors the image of humanity that was prevalent in the 1920s. His figurative works, focussed on expressive portrayals of persons, readily address the viewers,