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In actual fact, I want to tell you without misrepresentation, the whole story of Philhelm, which begins in Alsace in the castle of Lichtenberg, on April 23rd 1616, when 7-year-old Balthasar Helmlinger, loses the Monogram of his eponymy descendant (Sic). This ordinary but nevertheless very serious incident in the distant past will set in motion the artistic calling of one of his descendants, 10 generations later! This contemporary painter, born in Strasbourg in 1943, has only exhibited his work twice in his life, and both times, in FLORENCE !
At the "International Biennial event of Contemporary Art" in 1999 he was awarded the Prize of the City of Florence, and in 2001 again a prize for painting, which he accepted for its commendable allegory, but which incited him to return frantically to his paintbrushes !
So that the vulgum pecus be completely disorientated, so that it will let the story of the past enter him torpidly, by going back the furthermost possible until the Middle Ages, and, if it is possible, even further - or else it will never pierce the heart of his paintings - to seek there the secret causes of things.
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