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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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2129
Winterauktionen 25.–26.11.2022
Otto, Teo
1904 Remscheid - 1968 Frankfurt a.M.
«Das Urteil des Paris (judgement of Paris)».
Oil on canvas. Signed lower right.
H 149,
After his dismissal as head of set design at the Preußische Stadttheater in Berlin by the National Socialists in 1933, Teo Otto emigrated to Switzerland and became the scene builder of the Zurich Schauspielhaus. As the first «flying» stage designer in the world he worked in New York, London, Paris, Tokyo and regularly at the festivals in Salzburg and Edinburgh. He was also a professor of not only stage design but also painting at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.
In 1968, a large exhibition «Teo Otto der Maler (Teo Otto the Painter)» took place in Frankfurt a.M., on the occasion of which the artist gifted the present work to Harry Buckwitz (1904 - 1987), who at that time was the general director of the Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt a.M. and a friend and colleague of Teo Otto. Buckwitz became director of the Schauspielhaus Zurich in 1970 and after his retirement in 1977 he left «Das Urteil des Paris (judgement of Paris)» to this institution. He felt that such an important work by Teo Otto belonged here, where he had been head of set design during the war years and immediately afterwards supervised world premieres of Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956) in the 1940s.
Provenance: gift of the artist to Harry Buckwitz (1904 - 1987), general director of the Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt a.M., in 1968; passage of ownership to the Schauspielhaus Zürich, after 1977; bequeathed as a farewell gift to the former artistic director Gerd Heinz of the Schauspielhaus Zürich, in 1990.
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