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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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Luther, Adolf
1912 Uerdingen - 1990 Krefeld.
Untitled. Concave mirror object.
Square concave mirror in front of mirrored back panel, mounted in Perspex box. Verso signed on the object back board and dated (19)68. On top labels with auction notes. Object box with upper opening. Isolated minor scratches.
H 20,5, W 20,5, D 6,3 cm (object box).
This object was created as a prototype for an edition of the Kunstverein Wuppertal.
As one of the leading artists of kinetic art and op-art, it has been one of Adolf Luther's artistic quests to make the invisible visible in order to understand a reality, which is evading the depictive representation. At the beginning of the 1960s Luther left the classic way of painting and instead used light, the immediate factor of design, as his primary artistic medium. During this period he created light tunnels, convex mirror and lens objects.
Provenance: Venator & Hanstein, Cologne, auction A135, 21.03.2015, lot 1126; since then private possession France.
Literature: Dieter Honisch (Ed.), Adolf Luther - Licht und Materie, Recklinghausen 1978, (cf.). 
Luther, Adolf
1912 Uerdingen - 1990 Krefeld.
Ohne Titel. Hohlspiegelobjekt.
Konkav gewölbter, quadratischer Spiegel vor Spiegelrückwand auf Holz, im Plexiglaskasten montiert. Verso auf der Objektrückwand sign. und (19)68 dat. Oben Etiketten mit Auktionsvermerken. Objektkasten kann oben geöffnet werden. Vereinzelt leichte Kratzer.
H. 20,5,
Dieses Objekt entstand als Prototyp für eine Auflage des Kunstvereins Wuppertal.
Als einer der Hauptvertreter der kinetischen Kunst und der Op-Art war es Adolf Luther ein künstlerisches Bestreben, das Unsichtbare sichtbar zu machen, um so eine Wirklichkeit zu begreifen, die sich der bildnerisch abbildenden Darstellung entzieht. Ab Beginn der 1960er Jahre verabschiedete sich Luther vom klassischen Tafelbild und machte stattdessen das Licht als unmittelbaren Gestaltungsfaktor im Raum zu seinem primären künstlerischen Medium. In dieser Zeit entstanden Lichtschleusen, Hohlspiegel- und Linsenobjekte.
Provenienz: Venator & Hanstein, Köln, Auktion A135, 21.03.2015, Los 1126; seitdem Privatbesitz Frankreich.
Literatur: Dieter Honisch (Hrsg.), Adolf Luther - Licht und Materie, Recklinghausen 1978, (vgl.).