Bernhard Wolfgang Hellmann was the eldest son of Paul Hellmann and Irene Hellmann-Redlich, who played an important part in the cultural life of Austria in the 1920s and 1930s. As the owner of a textiles factory, Paul Hellmann was one of the financiers of the Salzburger Festspiele; he and his wife also supported numerous artists and institutions such as the Wiener Werkstätte. In her memoirs Remembe…