Helmut Leherb

Austrian Painter - "Maitre Leherb" and Co-founder of "Austrian Phantastic Realism", later turnded to Surrealism. He was born 14 February 1933 in Vienna and died 28 June 1997 in Vienna. He studied at Vienna and Stockholm Art Academy. He worked a lot with ceramic and sculpturing. Some of his artworks can still be seen in Vienna. In later years he changed his style to more surrealistic elements by leaving "Austrian Phantastic Realism" and artists like Arik Brauer or Ernst Fuchs. He poisened himself with too much ceramic dust, so that his health condition was very bad in the last years of his life. He finally died in 1997.