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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
Brütt, Ferdinand
1849 Hamburg - 1936 Bergen.
«Durch Nacht zum Licht (through night to light)».
Around 1903. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right and inscribed «Cbg». Verso on the stretcher titled as well as inscribed «v. F. Brütt» presumably by a different hand.
H 60,5,
As a study after the painting «Christus Victor» from 1894 also known as «Was toben die Heiden (why do the heathens rage)», in which Christ as a figure of light brings the striking workers' society to their senses, we see a similar scene in the present work. It is interesting to note the «moral pointing finger» of the light figure, as this also plays an important role in Brütt's court paintings, a genre that he strongly influenced.
Exhibition: Ferdinand Brütt (1849 - 1936), Erzählung und Impression, Museum Giersch, Frankfurt a.M., 18.03. - 15.07.2007, p. 117,
Literature: Alexander Bastek, Ferdinand Brütt und das städtisch-bürgerliche Genre um 1900, Weimar 2007, p. 222,
Catalogue raisonné: Bastek 1903.11.
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