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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
Schuch, Carl attr.
1846 Vienna - 1903 ibid.
Birch alley at dusk.
Oil on panel, mounted on another wooden panel, partly cradled. Dated lower right «Paris '84» as well as inscribed «K Schuch», «pinx» and «quod testat
H 35,
The business records of the Galerie Heinemann, Munich, show that the present painting was originally the reverse of a still life by Karl Hagemeister (1848 - 1933) and that the panel was divided by sawing after its acquisition from the Kern Collection in Berlin. The separated, thin panel halves were mounted on new backing boards. The formerly joined recto is a still life depicting a ginger pot, a silver cup and fruits and is now kept in the Bröhan Museum, Berlin, with inventory number 86-067.
It would have been extraordinary, but not surprising, if the painter friends Karl Hagemeister and Carl Schuch shared a support during a joint stay in Paris in 1884. Since both artists were in close fruitful exchange and trained each other, one could imagine that on one of their forays there was suddenly not a single free picture support available and Carl Schuch, in order to show his friend how best to capture that mood in the avenue, quickly reached for the back of Hagemeister's painting. Whether it happened so spontaneously or whether a long-planned artistic competition took place on this separated panel will probably remain a secret forever.
File note: Dr. Roland Dorn, Carl Schuch Gesellschaft e.V., Wiesbaden, 15.09.2021.
We would like to thank Dr. Roland Dorn, Carl Schuch Gesellschaft e.V., Wiesbaden, for the scientific consultation, based on the original.
Provenance: collection Guido Josef Kern (1878 - 1953), Berlin-Halensee; transferred by sale on 09.11.1926 into the property of the Galerie Heinemann, Munich; booked out of the gallery collection on 10.10.1928 and thus transferred into the private collection of the owner, Theobald Heinemann; private collection Munich.
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