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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
Johannes Stumpf
Schweytzer Chronick: Das ist / Beschreybunge Gemeiner loblicher Eyd-gnoschafft Stetten / Landen / Völcker und dero Chronick-wirdigen Thaaten [...]. 13 parts in four vols. Zürich, Johannes Wolf, 1606. With illustrated woodcut title, a title page each surrounded by coats of arms, some, partly doublepage maps, numerous genealogies and woodcuts, depicting coats of arms, ancient inscriptions, portraits of emperors on coins, views of Swiss cities and battle scenes. DCCLXX sheets. Not collated. Contemporary vellum with reddish edges.
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Johannes Stumpf (1500 - 1577/1578), a theologian and chronicler from Bruchsal who lived and worked mainly in Switzerland, wrote a richly illustrated Swiss chronicle, which was published for the first time in 1548 and republished in 1606. Most of the woodcuts in this visually stunning work were created by Heinrich Vogtherr the Elder (1490 - 1556). Numerous maps, coats of arms, coin portraits and illustrations of historical events, such as battles, constitute the majority of the depictions. But also unusual subjects, such as a genealogical tree of the Turkish rulers (first vol. sheet XIIII), a depiction of the knight Heinrich von Winkelried with the dragon he vanquished near the village of Wyler (third vol. sheet DXXIII), illustrations of Roman inscriptions in the abbey church of Saint-Maurice in the Valais (fourth vol. sheet DCLXXV verso) or a view of the city of Basel (fourth vol. sheet DCXCIX) complete this extensive testimony to an early modern, humanist understanding of the world.
Provenance: Library of the last Prince-Bishop of Basel Franz Xaver von Neveu (1749 - 1828); after his death it became private property of the family of Neveu, Durbach.
Literature: VD17 39:124186M.
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