On the english website from Helmut Tollmann.

Helmut G. Tollmann is an artist of Cologne, who is at home also in the world. Hong Kong, Japan and Italy are long-standing stations of his artistic life. At the art festival in Ravenna he was honored in the year 2004 as a significant and best foreign artist. His artistic contributions towards chip technology, which built up the basis of computer technology, are unique in art history and have introduced him world-wide the epithet „Soul of chip”.
He is a silent, serious and independent character, who is working hard on his ideas. Therefore in art scene he has not still appeared at all up to now. Rather he has search and found the audience for his paintings, objects, graphics and photo / light / music-performances on events in collaboration with the big fair companies in Cologne, Hannover and Munich. He is represented in the collections by DaimlerChrysler, Acer, Dielektra
Siemens, as well as in other institutional and private collections, e.g., in Hong Kong, New York and Athens. However, to the inhabitants of Cologne he has had always also a special relation and thus he has during the last years with his exhibition “Verbindungen” (connections) in the space of Neuerburg, organized by the City of Cologne and Artexpert, he lay accents in the modern art history of this city with his monumental painting „the eye of Trude Herr“, an beloved actress, writer and singer of Cologne in the second part of the 20Th century (today in Cologne / fair). In Bonn the
Federal Press Club had invited Tollmann for its his reopening for a big exhibition, including his artwork „Beethoven superstar“. His portraits of significant personalities (among others participation in the project Sancto-Subito) put accents in contemporary art.

(text by Dr. O. G. Safiriou)