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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 19.–20.11.2021
Krämer, Peter II
1857 Philadelphia - 1936 Dießen a. Ammersee.
Pipe-smoking forester with an edelweiss on his hat.
Watercolour and gouache over pencil on strong, chamois paper. Signed lower right and inscribed «München (Munich)». Verso on the backboard signed again and inscribed «München (Munich)» as well as «Diessen a.A.».
H 20,5,
Peter Krämer II came from a triumvirate of Bavarian-American painters of the same name. His father Peter Krämer I (1823 - 1907) studied under a grand master of historical painting, Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, with the support of King Ludwig I. He emigrated to the USA in the 1840s, where he made a name for himself with, among other things, depictions of the American War of Liberation. While Peter Krämer III (1896 - 1972) specialised in church interiors, it was the middle one, Peter Krämer II, who focused on genre painting and whose present work bears witness to his eye for cosy, Bavarian folklore and his interest in the attentively observed depiction of rustic character types. His small-format watercolours usually depict elderly men, whom he captured with an almost obsessive love of detail, with an unmistakable focus on their traditional costumes and individual attributes representing various activities traditionally associated with Bavarian quaintness. In particular, he succeeded in giving his models a robust, nature-loving appearance, which, not without a humorous wink, is intended to convey to the viewer a feeling of serious, down-to-earth attachment to one's homeland and at the same time of uncomplicated, natural cordiality.
Provenance: private collection Munich.
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