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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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3225
Winterauktionen 19.–20.11.2021
Follower of Rembrandt
South Germany 17th/
Jesus healing the centurion's servant.
Oil on canvas, relined. Unsigned. Verso on a label typographically inscribed with the work's data and the price.
H 43,
The painting, mounted in a florid Rococo style frame, reproduces the episode of the centurion of Capernaum, a town on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, as recorded in the Gospel of Matthew. The centre of the painting depicts the bearded, aged man kneeling in a long cloak, imploring the Son of God to heal his sick servant. The dramatic chiaroscuro, the amazingly lifelike rendering of the materials and the orientalising headdress of the centurion are characteristic style features of the Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 - 1669), the paradigm of many Baroque painters of Central Europe in the late 17th and 18th centuries.
Provenance: Gertrud von Lukasiewiecz, Bad Säckingen; by succession transferred to private property Hexental.
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