"Mrs. Adelberg and Daughter (Helene & Liesl)"; drypoint with color aquatint and additional hand-applied color; 1909; unique printer's proof, pencil dated after signature; pencil titled and annotated "Special schulpreis"; artist's wife's red "Friedl Pollak Collection" stamp in lower left sheet corner. Printed by the artist on heavy antique-white wove paper that measures 24-7/8 x 21-5/8".



Helene Adelberg (nee Gewitsch) was born in Vienna in 1881. The family was musically gifted and Helene, Paula, Carl, and Leo were known for their skills as pianistsand violinists. Helene married Alfred Adelberg in 1902 and they had five children: Alice (who went as Liesl), Georg, Franz, Fritz, and Eva.

Tragically, with the rise of Nazi Germany, Helene, her sister, and her youngest child Eva were deported to the Sobibor concentration camp in Lublin in June of 1942. They did not survive.