by the ideals of masculinity as found in novels by Henry de Montherlant. Despite these fairly obvious homoerotic sentiments in his paintings, Kolle was notoriously guarded about his homosexuality and his relationship with Uhde, much different to the openness of other homosexual artists in France or Germany at the time, e.g. Klaus Mann. After Kolle's death, major exhibitions of his works took place in Hamburg (1952 and 2011), Chemnitz (2010), and Munich (1994), in addition to numerous exhibitions in smaller European galleries. In England, Lucy Wertheim was the most important exponent of Kolle's œuvre, exhibiting Kolle's paintings in her London gallery in 1930, 1931, 1934, 1935, and 1938. Gallery References Page numbers refer to:Mössinger, I., Bauer-Friedrich, T., and Müller, K. [ed.]: Helmut Kolle – Ein Deutscher in Paris (exhibition catalog), 2010, 297 pp. External links Gallery with more of his works at Zeno.org — Those scans look very desaturated compared to the real paintings, however. 1899 births 1931 deaths Artists from Berlin Modern painters 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists German male painters German gay artists German LGBT painters German expatriates in France Gay painters Deaths from endocarditis 20th-century LGBT people