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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
Zimmermann, Reinhard Sebastian
1815 Hagnau - 1893 Munich.
«Aus dem Schwarzwalde (from the Black Forest)». Rest at the wayside shrine.
Oil on canvas. Signed lower left, dated 1850 and inscribed «München (Munich)».
H 63,5,
Zimmermann made his beginnings in portrait painting. After training at the Müncher Akademie and years of artistic wandering, he developed into a genre painter who dealt with the life of farmers and the lower middle class in his Southern German homeland. Appointed court painter to Baden, Zimmermann is known for his warm colouring and finely narrated character scenes.
In 1850, he apparently painted this motif twice: as a large format in the present painting and as a smaller variant in oil on paper, which he dedicated and presented as a gift in honour of King Ludwig I on the occasion of the unveiling of the Bavaria in 1850 together with works by numerous artists of distinction. The paper variant is in the so-called König Ludwig Album in the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München with the inventory number KLA 69.
We would like to thank Dr. Andreas Strobl, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, for the kind remarks via
Provenance: Sotheby's, London, auction 21.06.1989, lot 270; private collection Markgräflerland.
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