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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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2049
Winterauktionen 19.–20.11.2021
Löwengard, Kurt
1895 Hamburg - 1940 London.
«Kirche und Stadt (church and town)» from «Das Neue Hamburg».
1923. Woodcut on chamois cotton paper by «Johann Wilhelm [Zanders]» (Watermark). Signed lower right. Verso on the back board a printed collection label handwritten inscribed with the work's data and the provenance.
H 24,8,
H 31,5,
Originally included in «Das Neue Hamburg», published by Karl Lorenz, Hamburg 1923. One of 100 copies on cotton paper within a total edition of 450 works. Printed by Druckereigesellschaft Hartung & Co. m.b.H., Hamburg for the Gemeinschaftsverlag Hamburgischer Künstler.
Kurt Löwengard studied at the Bauhaus in Weimar and was one of the most esteemed members of the Hamburger Sezession. Due to his Jewish faith, he was subjected to increasing repressive measures from 1933 onwards, which pushed him to flee to London in 1939. He died seven months after his arrival, weakened by existential worries, of a serious illness.
In Löwengard's Hamburg period he produced expressive woodcuts and linocuts, especially for expressionist publications such as «Die Rote Erde» and «Das Neue Hamburg».
Provenance: according to the consignor purchased at Heuser & Grethe, Hamburg, November 1994; since then private collection Hamburg und Markgräflerland.
Catalogue raisonné: Bruhns 1923 Gr7.
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