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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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Winterauktionen 24.–25.11.2023
Hüppi, Alfonso
Born 1935
«RE32».
Casein paint on wooden pallet with relief element. Verso signed, dated 1968, titled, as well as directional arrow and with the measurements «76 : 98».
H 76,
«he liked to nail rough-sawn wood / into open boxes and grids / he painted them in soft colours / he nailed layers of boards / that act like rough boxes / into which nothing goes / because they are simply flat / but some things come out: / expression.» Max Bill about Alfonso Hüppi, cited in: Galerie Henze & Ketterer and Galerie Beck & Eggeling (Eds.), Alfonso Hüppi, Holzwege, Karlsruhe 2010, p. 9.
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Literature: Galerie Henze & Ketterer und Galerie Beck & Eggeling (Eds.), Alfonso Hüppi, Holzwege, Karlsruhe 2010, p. 9 and p. 40 (cf.).
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