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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
Hauptmann, Karl
1880 Freiburg i.Br. - 1947 Todtnau.
«Frühling im Schwarzwald. (spring in the Black Forest.)». Farm on a hillside.
Oil on canvas. Signed twice lower left. Verso on the stretcher on the artist's original label dated 1946, titled, inscribed «Original! Doppelschicht! Farben: Perthun: Mussini! Oel: gebl. Terp. S.F. (ohne Rahmen)» as well as numbered «5» by hand and with the measurements «70 x 90». Verso on the stretcher inscribed by a different hand «(1946) Karl Hauptmann/Feldberg i.Schw./».
H 70, W 90 cm (support). Elaborate frame.
Karl Hauptmann's art was also spread in the form of postcards. So far, seventeen different cards by the Feldberg painter have been located. The painting shown here was one of them. Carrying the no. 2172, the coloured card was published by the Kunstverlag Emil Köhn, Munich. Hauptmann's paintings gained recognition outside the Black Forest through the postcard reproductions and advertised the beauty of the landscape at the same time.
We would like to thank Dr. Ruth Hötzel-Dickel, author of the catalogue raisonné, Freiburg i.Br., for the scientific advice, via E-Mail, based on photos, 10.09.2022.
Provenance: family of the artist; since then private collection Bad Krozingen.
Literature: Ruth Hötzel-Dickel, Karl Hauptmann 1880 - 1947, Der Schwarzwaldmaler, Freiburg i.Br. 2007, p. 184, ill. P6 (cf.).
Catalogue raisonné: Hötzel-Dickel G46-2.

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hammer price: 22000,- EUR
(starting price: 7500,- EUR)