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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 20.–21.11.2020
Wesselmann, Tom
1931 Cincinnati - 2004 New York.
«Claire Nude».
Serigraph in colours and lithograph in colours on strong wove paper. Signed lower right, dated (19)80, numbered 29/200 and drystamp. With the publisher's dry stamp Transworld Art, New York, lower left. Verso handwritten inscribed «W 1008». Light-stained.
H 63,4,
H 78,7,
Work from an edition of 200 signed and numbered copies. Published by Transworld Art, New York. Printed by Maurel Studios, New York.
With his shrill, erotic nudes, Tom Wesselmann was among the provocateurs of the American art scene in the 1960s. In typical Pop Art manner, he reduced his motifs to their essential features in a two-dimensional eye-catching way, thus underlining the status of nudity and not the individuality of the face. Wesselmann combines the classic, sensual nude type of the siren-like odalisque with the replaceability of the modern advertising industry and the bourgeois cosiness of the average American household.
We would like to thank Mr Brian Kenny, Tom Wesselmann Estate, New York, for the kind remarks via
Provenance: purchased at the Galerie Pro Arte, 
Wesselmann, Tom
1931 Cincinnati - 2004 New York.
«Claire Nude».
Farbserigraphie und Farblithographie auf festem Velin. U.r. sign., (19)80 dat., 29/200 num. und Trockenstempel. U.l. mit dem Trockenstempel des Herausgebers Transworld Art, New York, versehen. Verso handschriftlich bez. «W 1008». Lichtrandig.
H. 63,4,
H. 78,7,
Werk aus einer Auflage von 200 signierten und nummerierten Exemplaren. Herausgegeben von Transworld Art, New York. Gedruckt bei Maurel Studios, New York.
Mit seinen schrillen, erotischen Akten zählte Tom Wesselmann in den 1960er Jahren zu den Provokateuren der amerikanischen Kunstszene. In typischer Pop-Art Manier reduziert er seine Motive in flächiger, plakativer Form auf ihre wesentlichen Merkmale und rückt damit den Status der Nacktheit vor die Gesichterindividualität. Wesselmann kombiniert den klassischen, sinnlichen Akttypus der sirenenhaften Odaliske mit der Austauschbarkeit der modernen Werbeindustrie und der spießigen Gemütlichkeit des durchschnittlichen amerikanischen Haushalts.
Wir danken Herrn Brian Kenny, Tom Wesselmann Estate, New York, für die freundlichen Hinweise via
Provenienz: erworben 1997 in der Galerie Pro Arte, Freiburg i.Br.; seitdem Privatsammlung Klaus Hug,