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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 24.–25.11.2023
Acht, René
1920 Basel - 1998 Herbolzheim.
«Haus in den Wolken (house in the sky)».
Oil on canvas. Verso signed, dated (19)69 and numbered «No 10». Verso on the stretcher signed again, dated (19)69 as well as inscribed ««Würfelarti[…] Haus (dice[...] house)».
H 53,5,
«These pictures bear the simple title ‹House› because I feel the human body as a dwelling, as a shelter, as a ‹house› for the soul and the spirit. They are so-called realisations in colour + form. The body, the house in which the soul and the spirit dwell. [...] As is well known, there is a lot of bipolarity in every person. Therefore, when painting a ‹house›, I have to strive to make these opposites visible. [...] The human being is at the centre of my interest. I am not only moved by their outer appearance; I also want to experience their inner life. My task is to make the trinity, body - soul - spirit, visible. [...] Becoming - being - passing away.» René Acht in: Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Kunstmuseum Singen, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau (Ed.), René Acht, Lyrisch-Konkret, Cologne 2021, p. 110.
Authentication: We would like to thank Ms Bärbel Acht and Mr Andreas H.H. Suberg, Nachlass René Acht, for the verbal authentication based on the original on-site, 18.09.2023.
Provenance: private collection Dreiländereck.
Literature: Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Kunstmuseum Singen und Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau (Ed.), René Acht, Lyrisch-Konkret, Köln 2021, p. 144,
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