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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
Hauptmann, Karl
1880
«Waldinneres (inside the forest)». Creek in the summer fir forest.
Oil on plywood. Signed lower left. Verso signed again and dated 1942, on the artist's original label signed again, handwritten dated 1940, titled and inscribed «Original. Studien. Oel! (original. studies. oil!)» as well as with the data of the work, the price and the owner.
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Between the bare trunks of old conifers, one looks across a babbling brook to a clearing bordered by small firs. Scattered shrubbery and lush, dark green grass cover the forest floor of this enchanted, shady grove. By all appearances, it is a cool, peaceful refuge of forest solitude, a pristine retreat to linger and dream in the heat of summer. Embodying the mysterious and unconscious in its impenetrability and seeming infinity, the forest has exerted a magical pull as a projection surface for fairy tale visions at least since the beginning of the
Provenance: by donation passed into the property of the housekeeper of the artist; private collection Bad Krozingen.
Catalogue raisonné: Hötzel-Dickel G40-2.
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