Hellmuth Weissenborn was born in Leipzig, Germany. He emigrated to London in 1938 as a freelance artist. From 1941-70 he was visiting teacher at Ravensbourne College of art. Well known as a print maker illustrator especially at the Acorn Press. He showed at LG. and V&A and had many one-man shows in England and Germany where he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit from the Federal Republic of Germany in 1979.Ref. Buckman, Horne. More examples by this artist in stock.