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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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2017
Winterauktionen 25.–26.11.2022
Lenk, Franz
1898 Langenbernsdorf - 1968 Schwäbisch Hall.
«Lausa mit Kirche (Lausa with church)».
Oil on canvas, relined. Signed lower right and dated 1924. Verso a printed label of the Galerie von Abercron, Cologne, typographically inscribed with the work's data. Verso on the stretcher inscribed presumably by a different hand «15[…] Lausa bei Dresden (Lausa by Dresden)», «Zsch[…]» as well as numbered «50/1928» and «No 509.». Verso on the stretcher on two printed labels inscribed «A-24-1» and numbered «7» as well as remains of an old label.
H 99,
«[…] in the years up to and including 1931, a theme occurs again and again that is to be described here as ‹Landschaft aus nächster Distanz (landscape at close range)›. Standing directly against the sky, the houses are often depicted as several interlaced buildings. The trees surrounding them and the landscape visible behind them have the task of bringing the houses closer. Giving the pictures depth, the sky also serves the same purpose». from: Galerie von Abercron (Ed.), Franz Lenk
«I have a work in ink showing a drawing I made with devotion as a child of the village church. Even today I remember sitting on the edge of the field in the summer heat and watching the farmers walk from the valley to the field or along the village, while I struggled to depict the little church. Even now, while painting, I walk around in my scenery in my mind. I walk along the paths I paint. [...] That's what I want to paint! Not a copy, but life!» Franz Lenk, Was ich will, in: Die Kunst, vol. 1931, 1, p. 372ff., cited in: Galerie von Abercron, ibid. p. 8.
We would like to thank Mr Marco Zambon, Galerie von Abercron, Munich, for the kind remarks via
Provenance: purchased at Galerie von Abercron, Munich, in 1977; since then private collection Müllheim in the Markgräflerland.
Exhibitions: Aquarelle und Zeichnungen, Dresden, Kunstsalon Emil Richter, January - February 1926; Die Sieben von Barmen (Theo Champion, Adolf Dietrich, Hasso von Hugo, Franz Lenk, Alexander Kanoldt, Franz Radziwill, Georg Schrimpf), Bochum, Barmen, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Aachen, Krefeld, Mülheim a.d. Ruhr, 1932,
Catalogue raisonné: von Abercron A-24-1 (Arbeitsbuch 154).
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