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Hugo Helbing

1863–1938 · Germany

Munich auctioneer who sold the Cypriote collection of Julius Naue on 19 May 1908; Jena and Karlsruhe bought from that sale and Aachen and Hannover later bought from him.

Biography

Hugo Helbing's firm held the Munich auction of the Cypriote collection of Julius Naue on 19 May 1908, a year after Naue's death. Helbing, an art dealer and auctioneer, was born in Munich on 23 April 1863 and died there on 30 November 19382. Markus Recke names him in Munich, with Lederer in Berlin, among the dealers who resold and passed on material that Max Ohnefalsch-Richter had first supplied, the main source of the internal antiquities trade in Germany1.

Naue had about 120 Cypriote objects, much of it probably acquired through Ohnefalsch-Richter1. The catalogue is listed as Sammlung Prof. Dr. Julius Naue3. Recke records buyers from the sale: the university collection at Jena took 15 pieces of pottery, Karlsruhe took two pots, and the Munich Dehn collection later sent its Cypriote vases to Erlangen in 19421.

German museums also list purchases from Helbing himself: Aachen in 1910 and Hannover in 19131.

Life and work

  1. 19 May 1908
    Held the auction of the collection of Prof. Dr. Julius Naue, Munich (about 120 Cypriote objects among Egyptian, Greek and Italian antiquities), after Naue's death. Recke's museum list buys from it for Jena (15 pottery pieces), Karlsruhe (2 pots) and an Erlangen lot via the Dehn collection.

    MunichRecke 2012, p. 98, p. 108, p. 110, p. 111Recke 2012

  2. 1910
    Aachen museum list gives 'KH Munchen Helbing 1910' among its sources of Cypriote pieces (with Athens 1906 and Rome 1913).

    AachenRecke 2012, p. 106

  3. 1913
    Hannover (Museum August Kestner) lists '1913 KH Munchen, Helbing' among sources of its Cypriote collection.

    HannoverRecke 2012, p. 110

  4. 1913
    Stuttgart entry: a 1959 acquisition from the Scheufelen collection is noted as having come earlier (1913) from the Munich dealer Helbing, 'aus Rhodos'.

    StuttgartRecke 2012, p. 113

Connections

3 people
Julius NaueDehn (Munich collector)Heinrich ScheufelenHugo Helbing
Sales & gifts

Sales, gifts & bequests

Sources

  1. 1.Matthias Recke (2012). “Deutschland und das antike Zypern. Beiträge zur Geschichte einer archäologischen Disziplin”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42.
  2. 2.Hugo Helbing (Wikidata Q15550099; GND 116681454). Online
  3. 3.Hugo Helbing (1908). Sammlung Prof. Dr. Julius Naue. Auktion Hugo Helbing 19.5.1908, München. Munich, Hugo Helbing.