Helen Breger (1918-Present Day)
Helen Breger is a widely exhibited Bay Area artist whose work lives in many private and museum collections. Before her retirement, she had a long and distinguished teaching career at California College of Arts and Crafts as well as the University of California at Berkeley.
Born in Vienna, she was educated at the Arts Students League in New York, The San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco State University and California College of Arts and Crafts (MFA). She was a fellow at Mac Dowell Colony in Peterborough, NH, and in recent years studied bronze casting in Italy. Her main Concentration was in the field of drawing, graphics, fine art prints and various aspects of design. While studying at the Art Students League in New York City, she was freelancing as an illustrator.
Permanent Collections:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Seattle Museum of Art, Seattle, Washington
Achenback Foundation, San Francisco, California
State Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
One Woman Shows:
Weyhe Galleries, New York City
Hansen Galleries, San Francisco, California
Ames Gallery, Berkeley, California
Fuji Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles, California
and many more
Group Shows:
Associated American Artists, New York City
IBM Galleries, New York City
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California
De Young Museum, San Francisco, California
Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, California
and many more.
