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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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2026
Winterauktionen 19.–20.11.2021
Heider-Schweinitz, Maria von
1894 Darmstadt - 1974 Frankfurt a.M.
«Wald-Arendse [sic] (forest Arendsee)». View of a forest against the light in the Altmark.
1938/39. Oil on canvas. Signed lower left and dated (19)38. Verso on the stretcher signed again, dated (19)39 and titled. Verso on the stretcher a badly legible stamp of the HSH Nordbank with handwritten inventory number «17671 UBB» and a stamp of the Landesbank Kiel with handwritten inventory number «00158». Verso on the frame a printed label of Bassenge, Berlin, with auction notes.
H 84,
One of the few landscape paintings by the extraordinary expressionist artist that survived the Second World War. She had a deep friendship with Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884 - 1976), which is documented in an extensive correspondence. Because of the great loss of her works due to war damages, Maria von Heider-Schweinitz is also counted among the «lost generation» of expressive realism.
Provenance: presumably collection of the HSH Nordbank; Bassenge, Berlin, auction 104, 27.11.2014, lot 8157; since then private collection South Germany.
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