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
Haensbergen, Jan van attr.
1642 Utrecht - 1705 The Hague.
Italianate ruin landscape with bathing nymphs.
Oil on copper. Badly legible monogrammed «IVH (?)» lower left.
H 29,
As one of the most important successors of Cornelis van Poelenburch (1594/95 Utrecht - 1667 ibid.), the great master of the antique landscape, Jan van Haensbergen is active in both, the genre of portraiture and the antique landscape. Here, covered only with drapery, nymphs emerge from a bath in front of a southern scene with ruins. Depictions such as this were in great demand in the Netherlands during the Golden Age. With mythological or biblical scenes in the foreground, they serve the desire for Italy of the time.
We would like to thank Dr. Fred G. Meijer, expert on Dutch and Flemish painting of the
Provenance: private collection Achern.
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