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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
Malskat, Lothar
1913 Königsberg - 1988 Lübeck.
«Nach dem Auftritt (after the show)».
Oil on plywood. Monogrammed lower middle and badly legible inscribed «L MA [...]». Verso numbered probably by a different hand «61» and titled on a label.
H 90,
Initially, Lothar Malskat gained fame as an art forger: in the Schleswig Cathedral and the St. Mary's Church in Lübeck, he created large picture cycles in the early Gothic style, that were celebrated as successful restorations of historical paintings. His forgeries only came to light in 1952 when the artist confessed to forgery. In the process, he also admitted to forging works by renowned artists such as Rembrandt, Picasso and Chagall, thus setting in motion what was then the largest art forgery scandal in the Federal Republic of Germany. As expected, the original and thus also signed or monogrammed works by Malskat stand out for their wide stylistic range.
Provenance: private collection Hamburg and Markgräflerland.
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