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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Honigberger, Ernst
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Oil on masonite. Signed upper right.
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«It was the outrageously rich character of his homeland Transylvania that made him recognise the visual arts as a compelling means of expressing his talent. The form and content of his painting were determined by the elements that closely connected him with the blood of his German and Armenian ancestors, with the southern colours, with the contrasting mountain landscape of his homeland and with his music. A natural direction of his own development was thus given to the artist by his origins.» from: Bruno W. Reimann, Ernst Honigberger, in: Der Cicerone, Halbmonatsschrift für Künstler, Kunstfreunde und Sammler, Leipzig 1926, p. 227.
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