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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 24.–25.11.2023
Hammerstiel, Robert
1933 Vršac - 2020 Neunkirchen.
«Landschaft. Viertel unter d. Wienerwald (landscape. District by the Wienerwald)».
Oil on canvas. Monogrammed lower right. Verso signed, dated 1996 and titled. Verso on the back of the frame a printed label from the Galerie Georg van Almsick, Gronau-Epe, as well as remains of an old label.
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A turning point that triggered the emergence of a new phase in Hammerstiel's work was his trip to New York in 1988. Manhattan inspired the artist with its unusualness and garishness and moved him to rediscover colours and radically simplify his figural language. From then on, he renounced everything incidental in his painting. Although this landscape painting of his adopted hometown of Ternitz in Lower Austria is rare in terms of its subject matter and concentrates entirely on the landscape without Hammerstiel's typical foreground figures, it nevertheless has everything that characterises the artist's main work: shapes reduced to the essential and strong, vivid colours. It is a very personal homage to the place where he lived for many years.
Authentication: We would like to thank Mr Robert F. Hammerstiel, son of the artist and director of the Robert-Hammerstiel-Archive, Vienna, for the authentication via
We would like to thank Dr. Frederik Lehner, Galerie Lehner, Vienna, for the kind remarks via
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