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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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3277
Winterauktionen 19.–20.11.2021
Lessing, Carl Friedrich attr.
1808 Breslau - 1880 Karlsruhe.
Rest in front of the castle.
Oil on panel. Unsigned. Verso numbered «3205», indistinctly inscribed as well as with remains of a typographically inscribed label.
H 39,
«[...] To the side of the path lying in the bright sunshine, a horseman has brought his steed to a halt. He seems to be talking to a man in front of him. In the distant middle ground on the right, two more hikers can be seen. A blue sky, with bright drifting summer clouds, arches over the landscape, taking up almost half of the picture. The alternation of brightly lit and shadowed areas is often found in Carl Friedrich Lessing's landscape paintings, as are the motifs of castle, horseman, low mountain range and wide river plain. [...]» from: Vera Leuschner, Statement, Zierenberg, 13.09.2021.
Statement: Dr. Vera Leuschner, Zierenberg, 13.09.2021.
We would like to thank Dr. Vera Leuschner, author of the catalogue raisonné of the sketches, Zierenberg, for the scientific advice via
Provenance: purchased at the Galerie Heinemann, Kiel, in 1977; private property Rheinfelden.
Proof of purchase: Galerie Herrmann, Kiel, 30.08.1977, invoice amount
Catalogue raisonné: not mentioned by Jenderko-Sichelschmidt.
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