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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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3353
Winterauktionen 19.–20.11.2021
Hauptmann, Karl
1880
Red sandstone bridge over a creek during summer.
1908 - 1914. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. Verso on the stretcher badly legible inscribed «[...] Sommer ([...] summer)».
H 31,5,
A red sandstone bridge crosses the cool waters of a creek in the midst of richly vegetated, shady banks. One can almost feel the gentle breeze playing with the hanging branches of the willows, so convincingly did the legendary Black Forest painter capture the concentrated essence of a lovely, sun-filled summer day in this atmospheric work. The painting dates from a relatively early creative phase of the artist, the so-called «Freiburg period» in the years immediately before the outbreak of the First World War. Although the idyllic motif of the reddish bridge is rather an isolated case in Hauptmann's œuvre, the meditative serenity and balanced tranquillity emanating from its picturesque sight already hint at the wildly romantic conception of nature in his later landscapes filled with rough coniferous forests.
Authentication: We would like to thank Dr. Ruth Hötzel-Dickel,
Catalogue raisonné: Hötzel-Dickel Go80.
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