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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 24.–25.11.2023
Knoebel, Imi i.e. Klaus Wolf
Born 1940 Dessau, lives and works in Düsseldorf.
Six original editions from the cycle «Pure Freude I (pure joy I)».
2005. Acrylic on plastic sheet. Verso each numbered lower right 10/12 as well as the individual sheets numbered «1», «3», «4», «5», «6» und «7» lower left. Sheet 7 additionally signed verso lower middle, dated «2..5 (2005)» as well as inscribed «112+164» lower right. Sheet 1 additionally numbered verso lower right 4/40 and sheet 4 additionally numbered verso lower right 12/10. Verso on the back of the frame each with a printed label with the work's data.
H 50,
Works from an edition of 12 numbered copies.
«Pure Freude» is a punk record label started in 1979 by the landlady of the Düsseldorf punk mecca «Ratinger Hof», artist's wife Carmen Knoebel. «Pure Freude» is the name of a patisserie run by the artist's daughters in Düsseldorf. But «Pure Freude» is also an edition that Imi Knoebel developed as a series since 2001/02, preceded by numerous designs of the same name.
The title «Pure Freude» makes one think of Paul Klee, whose «Theory of the Purity of Colour» defines it as that which remains when all units of measurement disappear. In Knoebel's «Pure Freude» each colour appears monochrome on one element of the overall composition. It thus gains an intensity and freedom that makes it appear autonomous in relation to every other colour in the picture.
Knoebel's role model, Kazimir Malevich, whose Black Square of 1915 is seen by the painter - Knoebel describes himself as a painter rather than an artist - as the origin of modern painting, proclaimed as early as the beginning of the
Provenance: private collection Freiburg i.Br.
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