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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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3265
Winterauktionen 19.–20.11.2021
Kauffmann, Hugo Wilhelm
1844 Hamburg - 1915 Prien a. Chiemsee.
«Jäger und Mädel (hunter and girl)». A Bavarian lad and a charming dairymaid in a rustic farmhouse parlour.
Oil on panel. Signed lower right. Verso a fragmentary printed label with the data of the work and the artist. Verso on the back of the frame numbered «3000», on a label inscribed probably by a different hand «Hugo Kauffman» as well as on a printed label numbered «82».
H 23,7,
In a rustic, homely parlour with vivid attributes of rustic cosiness, such as a dark green glazed tiled stove and a window with bull's-eye glass panes, a hearty hunter's lad is courting the favours of a handsome girl. The young woman has treated her admirer to a fresh beer, which is already half empty. The brash youth places his left hand on her forearm, a gesture that makes her recoil in surprise and freeze in demure terror. At the same time, she fixes him with an interested, scrutinising gaze. It is a delicate moment of ambiguity: how will events unfold? Will she reject his desire or will the two of them start an affair?
This genre scene, which is exemplary for Kauffmann's œuvre, not only shows an interior of archetypal Alpine cosiness, but also an interpersonal encounter of intimate vulnerability and subtly unspoken, folkloristically sugar-coated eroticism. The unresolved tension of this discreet, cozy encounter, supported by Kauffmann's typical narrative quality, captivates the voyeuristic interest of the observing eye and testifies equally to an intensive study of the local area and to an in-depth psychologising inclination of this painter.
Provenance: private collection Munich.
Catalogue raisonné: Holz 866.
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