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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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Herrfeldt, Marcel René von
1889 Boulogne-Billancourt - 1965 Munich.
Blonde in a negligee.
Oil on canvas. Inscribed «HERRFELDT» lower left.
H 94,
Marcel René von Herrfeldt's paintings are above all to be understood as sensual and ecstatic homages to the beauty of the female body. As a pupil of Franz von Stuck, he was influenced by the exuberant opulence and beguiling eroticism of the fin de siècle. In the present work, an unapproachable blonde gazes into the distance, dressed in a silver shimmering, transparent negligee. She appears to be naked and dressed at the same time. This garment began its seductive triumphal march in the interwar period and, through legendary actresses such as Jean Harlow or Rita Hayworth, became a weapon of a new type of woman, the self-confident femme fatale.
A mysterious, cool blonde with a pale complexion is quite rare in the painter's oeuvre, as he was mainly interested in dark-haired ladies with tanned skin, embodying vivacious Mediterranean women. Also a negligee or similar garments rarely appear in his œuvre, as he mostly painted nudes. A renowned connoisseur of Herrfeldt, Mr Thomas Krause, therefore suspects that the present work was commissioned.
Authentication: We would like to thank Mr Thomas Krause, Krefeld, for the kind remarks via 
Herrfeldt, Marcel René von
1889 Boulogne-Billancourt - 1965 München.
Blondine im Negligé.
Öl auf Leinwand. U.l. bez. «HERRFELDT».
H.
Marcel René von Herrfeldts Gemälde sind vor allem als lustvolle und ekstatische Huldigungen an die Schönheit des weiblichen Körpers zu verstehen. Als Schüler von Franz von Stuck war er geprägt von der überbordenden Opulenz und betörenden Erotik des Fin de Siècle. Im vorliegenden Werk blickt eine unnahbare Blondine in die Ferne, gekleidet in ein silbern schimmerndes, transparentes Negligé. Sie wirkt dadurch nackt und angezogen zugleich. Dieses Kleidungsstück begann seinen verführerischen Siegeszug in der Zwischenkriegszeit und rückte durch legendäre Schauspielerinnen wie Jean Harlow oder Rita Hayworth zur Waffe eines neuen Frauentypus auf, den der selbstbewussten Femme fatale.
Eine geheimnisvolle, kühle Blondine mit blassem Teint findet man recht selten im Gesamtwerk des Malers, denn er interessierte sich vor allem für dunkelhaarige Damen mit gebräunter Haut, temperamentvolle Südländerinnen verkörpernd. Auch ein Negligé oder ähnliche Kleidungsstücke tauchen selten in seinem Œuvre auf, da er zumeist Akte malte. Ein ausgewiesener Connaisseur Herrfeldts, Herr Thomas Krause, vermutet daher, dass es sich bei dem vorliegenden Werk um eine Auftragsarbeit handelt.
Authentifizierung: Wir danken Herrn Thomas Krause, Krefeld, für die freundlichen Hinweise via