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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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Croissant, Michael
1928 Landau - 2002 München.
«Kopf (head)». Welded Bronze. Monogrammed under the base and dated (19)91.
Very fine and typical work of the sculptor, who was picking out and abstracting the human body as a central theme of his oeuvre. The steadily increasing reduction to the head during his creative period is sign and expression of the spirit controlling the material.
Provenance: studio of the artist; private collection Königswinter.
Exhibition: Gallery Scheffel, Munich, 1991.
Literature: Kunstverein München, Michael Croissant - Plastiken und Zeichnungen, Munich 1991, ill.
Catalogue raisonné: Gabler/Ohnesorge 854.
1928 Landau - 2002 München.
«Kopf». Bronze, geschweißt. U. monogr. und (19)91 dat.
Sehr schöne und typische Arbeit des Bildhauers, der in seinen oft großformatigen Werken den menschlichen Körper abstrahiert und thematisiert. Die im Laufe seines Werkes stetig zunehmende Reduktion auf den Kopf ist Zeichen und Ausdruck eines die Materie beherrschenden Geistes.
Provenienz: Atelier des Künstlers; Privatsammlung Königswinter.
Ausstellung: Galerie Scheffel, München, 1991.
Literatur: Kunstverein München, Michael Croissant - Plastiken und Zeichnungen, München 1991, Abb.
Werkverzeichnis: Gabler/Ohnesorge 854.