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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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3432
Winterauktionen 19.–20.11.2021
Pietro della Valle
Eines vornehmen Römischen Patritii Reiß-Beschreibung in unterschiedliche Theile der Welt/ Nemlich in Türkey / Egypten / Palestina / Persien / Ost-Indien und andere weit entlegene Landschafften [...] Erstlich von dem Authore selbst / der diese Reisen gethan / in Italianischer Sprach beschrieben / und in vier- und fünfftzig Send-Schreiben in vier Theile verfasset [...]. Four parts in one vol. Geneva, Johann Hermann Widerhold, 1674. With an engraved frontispiece by I.I. Thourneyser after a draft by T. Blanchet, engraved portraits of the author and of his wife Sitti Maani Gioerida della Valle, numerous copper plates, woodcut title vignettes and ornamental initials. First part 218 p., second part 236 p., third part 244 p., fourth part 231 p. Not collated. Contemporary vellum with embossed borders.
H 35,
Pietro della Valle (1586 - 1652), who came from an old Roman noble family, left the Eternal City behind in 1614 and travelled through Asia Minor, Syria, the Holy Land, Egypt and Persia until his return in 1624, reaching as far as India. During this time, he learned the languages of the countries he visited, studied the customs of their inhabitants, dealt with the respective geographical peculiarities, described as one of the first Europeans the Mesopotamian cuneiform writing, which he had seen in the ruins of Persepolis, and probably introduced the Angora cat to Europe, which is still valued as a pet today. Beyond an objective-rational urge to explore, he was virtually enchanted by the magical and mysterious mysticism and fairy-tale beauty of the Orient and incorporated this fascination into his travelogue in the form of vivid anecdotes of wondrous incidents. This German-language edition from 1674 is provided with numerous illustrations by Johann Jakob Thurneysser (1636 - 1718), which depict a wide variety of sometimes curious facts and occurrences, such as the discovery of an Egyptian mummy in Sakkara (part one, pp. 104/105).
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 39:135562X; VD17 39:135565V; VD17 39:135569A; VD17 39:135571W.
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