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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Frühjahrsauktionen
Mène, Pierre Jules
1810 Paris - 1879 ebd.
Mare and stallion - L'Accolade. Dark patinated bronze. Signed to plinth «P.J. Mene».
1810 Paris - 1879 ebd.
Stute und Hengst - L'Accolade. Bronze, dunkel patiniert. Auf der Plinthe sign. «P.J. Mene».
Die «L'Accolade» - die Darstellung der Liebkosung zwischen einer arabischen Stute und einem Hengst - zählt zu den schönsten und erfolgreichsten Skulpturen des französischen Bildhauers Pierre Jules Mène. Die Bronze wurde 1853 im Pariser Salon ausgestellt, und ein Exemplar befindet sich heute im Louvre Museum. Neben dem Vater der Tierskulptur, Antoine-Louis Barye, gehört Mène im