Hela Peters (also Peters-Ebbecke) was a German painter and graphic artist. The daughter of judge Friedrich Albert Emil Willibald Peters (1847–1926), she received her artistic training as a student of Paul Narten (1855–1939) and Arthur Kampf in Berlin, under Jean-Paul Laurens at the Académie Julian, and under Alois Kolb in Leipzig, where her father worked at the Reich Court. In 1916, she married the physician Ulrich Ebbecke, whose father was also a judge at the Reich Court, and moved with him to Göttingen and Bonn, where Ebbecke took up a professorship in physiology at the university. Children’s and family motifs soon became the trademark of the artist, who was herself the mother of four children. Her paintings were repeatedly included in national art exhibitions. During the Nazi era, she was a member of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts. During this period, her participation in twelve major exhibitions and, in 1937, in an exhibition at the Leipzig Art Association with works by six other artists, including Robert Sterl, is reliably documented. After the war, Hela Peters-Ebbecke was in demand as a portrait painter; she also created illustrations for children’s books and numerous templates for art postcards.