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Professor Hermann Dischler
25th September 1866 – 20th March 1935
Hermann Dischler was born on the 25th of September in 1866 in Freiburg i.Br. He received his artistic training in the art school in Karlsruhe, he was student of Gustav Schönleber. Thereafter he was engaged as a painter in the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald area.
1894, after he finished his studies, he built himself an artist’s workroom in Freiburg i.Br. At this time he went on a lot of trips and his trusty camera followed him everywhere. Five years later he started to number and comment his artworks, which he collected in 29 «Bildbüchern (books of pictures)».
In the winter months from 1905 to 1907 he stayed in the Todtnauer Hütte, where a lot of his oil studies arise.
The snowy winter landscapes became his typical theme and he called himself «Schneemoler (snowpainter)». 1917 he received his professorship by Grand Duke Friedrich II.
In 1927 he had an exhibition with artists like Curt Liebich, Julius Heffner, Wilhelm Nagel, Wilhelm Wickertsheimer a.o., they called themselves «Die Schwarzwälder (the Black Forests)». He died on the 20th of March in 1935 in Hinterzarten. Today his works are extremely appreciated because the snowy landscape present the untouched nature.
Lit: Exhibition Catalogue Augustiner Museum, Freiburg i.Br., 1993
Professor Hermann Dischler
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3265
Winterauktionen 19.–20.11.2021
Kauffmann, Hugo Wilhelm
1844 Hamburg - 1915 Prien a. Chiemsee.
«Jäger und Mädel (hunter and girl)». A Bavarian lad and a charming dairymaid in a rustic farmhouse parlour.
Oil on panel. Signed lower right. Verso a fragmentary printed label with the data of the work and the artist. Verso on the back of the frame numbered «3000», on a label inscribed probably by a different hand «Hugo Kauffman» as well as on a printed label numbered «82».
H 23,7,
In a rustic, homely parlour with vivid attributes of rustic cosiness, such as a dark green glazed tiled stove and a window with bull's-eye glass panes, a hearty hunter's lad is courting the favours of a handsome girl. The young woman has treated her admirer to a fresh beer, which is already half empty. The brash youth places his left hand on her forearm, a gesture that makes her recoil in surprise and freeze in demure terror. At the same time, she fixes him with an interested, scrutinising gaze. It is a delicate moment of ambiguity: how will events unfold? Will she reject his desire or will the two of them start an affair?
This genre scene, which is exemplary for Kauffmann's œuvre, not only shows an interior of archetypal Alpine cosiness, but also an interpersonal encounter of intimate vulnerability and subtly unspoken, folkloristically sugar-coated eroticism. The unresolved tension of this discreet, cozy encounter, supported by Kauffmann's typical narrative quality, captivates the voyeuristic interest of the observing eye and testifies equally to an intensive study of the local area and to an in-depth psychologising inclination of this painter.
Provenance: private collection Munich.
Catalogue raisonné: Holz 866.
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