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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 19.–20.11.2021
Luther, Adolf
1912 Uerdingen - 1990 Krefeld.
Untitled. Concave mirror object.
225 square mirrors mounted on concave curved glass, under convex curved glass, in wooden object frame. Verso on the frame signed and dated (19)76.
H 36,
As one of the leading artists of kinetic art and op-art, it has been one of Adolf Luther's artistic quests to make the invisible visible in order to understand a reality, which is evading the depictive representation. At the beginning of the 1960s Luther left the classic way of painting and instead used light, the immediate factor of design, as his primary artistic medium. During this period he created light tunnels, convex mirror and lens objects.
Provenance: studio of the artist; purchased from the Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Wehr-Öflingen, in 1977; since then private collection High Rhine.
Invoice: Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Wehr-Öflingen, 08.05.1977, in copy.
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