Helmut Kolle (February 24, 1899 – November 17, 1931) was a German painter who found major success in France in the 1920s, fusing the German modernist style with that of French painting.Kolle was born in Berlin-Charlottenburg, the second son of the noted bacteriologist Wilhelm Kolle (1868–1935) and Helene Alwine Brigl. His father initially worked at Robert Koch's Berlin institute (the Robert Koch Institute) and then relocated to Bern in Switzerland with his family in 1906.