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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.

Karl Hauptmann

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Winterauktionen 25.–26.11.2022
Maier, Herbert X.
Born 1959 Haslach i. Kinzigtal, lives and works in Freiburg i.Br.
«Raumspeicher (storage space)».
Aquatec on canvas. Signed lower left and dated (19)94. Verso signed again, dated (19)94 and inscribed «Freiburg i.Br.».
H 130, W 140 cm (support). Unframed.
In the years 1993 to 1997, Herbert Maier worked intensively on the subject of surface and space. «And also with block-like figures and emptiness as a body (on the one hand, the recessed yellow zones seem transparent and distant, on the other hand, they are also dense, physical formations that the eye zooms into the large black form again and again).» from: Herbert X. Maier, E-Mail of 14.09.2022.
Authentication: We would like to thank the artist for the authentication via E-Mail, based on photos, 14.09.2022.
Provenance: purchased at Galerie Baumgarten, Freiburg i.Br., in 1994; since then private collection Baden-Württemberg.
Exhibition: Herbert Maier, Freiburg i.Br., Galerie Baumgarten, Heidelberg, Galerie Terbrüggen, Freiburg i.Br., Morat-Institut für Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft, September 1994 until July 1995.
Literature: Galerie Baumgarten (Ed.), Herbert Maier, Waldkirch 1994, No. 46, w/o p. (here with differing title «Leerkörper II (empty body II)»).

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hammer price: 2500,- EUR
(starting price: 2500,- EUR)