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Karl Hauptmann
«The Feldberg Painter»
24th April 1880 – 7th April 1947
Karl Hauptmann was born on 25th of April in 1880 in Freiburg i.Br., Germany. He received his artistic training in Nürnberg and Munich and was thereafter engaged as a decorative painter.
In 1908 he produced the first of what were to be his typical Black Forest paintings. In the years between 1915 and 1919, he produced numerous images of the Alpine region he had visited during his deployment with the mountain infantry in the First World War.
In 1918 Karl Hauptmann purchased «Molerhüsli», which for him encompassed his dwelling, atelier, and exhibition space. It soon became a favourite meeting place for skiers, hikers, students, and visitors to Feldberg.
Due to Hauptmann’s ever-present health problems, his doctor prescribed a trip to Italy in 1940, to which he again travelled the following year.
On 7th of April in 1947, Karl Hauptmann died at the age of 67 at his «Molerhüsli».
Lit.: Exhibition Catalogue, Feldberg, 1993.
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Schliepstein, Gerhard
1886 Braunschweig - 1963 Berlin.
«Zusammenbruch (breakdown)».
Circa 1928. Dark patinated bronze. Signed to plinth.
H 33, W 42 cm.
«The realism still strongly emphasized in the animal sculptures is already completely abandoned here. The [...] motifs from the fairytale world force Schliepstein into a new style. [...] [Schliepstein] created a purpose-designed nude, which manifests the tremendous space-creating and space-interpreting ability of the nude figure with the clarity and grip of a classic example. The soft, painterly imprecision, which Schliepstein's pre-war sculptures still adhere to, is here abandoned off in favour of a firm outline and determination of the structure.» from: Müller 1930,
Authentication: We would like to thank Mrs. Andrea Müller-Fincker, Ditzingen, author of the catalogue raisonné, for the scientific advice via
Provenance: private collection Berlin.
Literature: Erwin Müller (Ed.), Die Wiedergeburt des Porzellans, Eine kultur- und kunstpsychologische Einführung in die Porzellanplastik Gerhard Schliepsteins, Munich 1930 (cf.). 
Schliepstein, Gerhard
1886 Braunschweig - 1963 Berlin.
«Zusammenbruch».
Um 1928. Bronze, dunkel patiniert. Auf der Plinthe sign.
H.
«Der in den Tierplastiken noch stark betonte Realismus ist hier schon gänzlich verlassen. Die [...] Motive[] aus der Märchenwelt erzwingen hier bei Schliepstein eine neue Formensprache. [...] Hier hat die reine plastische Form ihre Funktion im Raum. Hier erklingt der Raum durch die Plastik. [Schliepstein] schuf hier einen zweckbestimmten Akt, der die ungeheure raumschaffende und raumdeutende Fähigkeit des Aktbildes mit der Deutlichkeit und Griffsicherheit eines Schulbeispieles kundtut. Die weiche, malerische Unpräzision, die Schliepsteins Vorkriegsplastiken noch anhaftet [...] ist hier abgestreift zugunsten einer festen Umrissenheit und Bestimmtheit der Struktur.» aus: Müller 1930, S. 37.
Authentifizierung: Wir danken Frau Andrea Müller-Fincker, Ditzingen, Verfasserin des Werkverzeichnisses, für die wissenschaftliche Beratung via
Provenienz: Privatsammlung Berlin.
Literatur: Erwin Müller (Hrsg.), Die Wiedergeburt des Porzellans, Eine kultur- und kunstpsychologische Einführung in die Porzellanplastik Gerhard Schliepsteins, München 1930 (vgl.).