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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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Brockmann, Gottfried
1903 Cologne - 1983 Kiel.
Self portrait with model.
Circa 1930. Pencil and coloured pencil on brownish parchment paper. Monogrammed middle right. Verso on the passepartout a printed label of Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, with auction notes.
H 28,3,
The artist and model are depicted in a strongly foreshortened perspective. The painter seems dismissive, he shows no regard for the model, the paint tube is carelessly trampled under his foot, his hands are idly stuck in his trouser pockets. For once, an artist is shown who struggles with his profession and who does not display his creativity.
Provenance: Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, auction 343, 12.06.1999, lot 1600; since then private collection Hamburg and Markgräflerland.
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starting price: 1500,- EUR