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3315
Hauptmann, Karl
1880
«Herzogenhorn (Feldberg)». Summit cross in winter twilight against a pink shimmering cloudy sky.
Oil on cardboard. Signed lower left. Verso titled by a different hand, numbered «9046», inscribed with the dimensions and with the stamp of the painting supplies shop Hch. Buff,
H 41,
The summit cross on the Herzogenhorn, not far from Karl Hauptmann's refuge, lovingly titled «Molerhüsli», appears several times in his œuvre, among others in a pencil drawing made in 1925 (WVZ Hötzel-Dickel Z25-1) or in an oil painting from 1936 (WVZ Hötzel-Dickel G36-1). The cross motif in the present work, which is almost dramatically exaggerated, follows the Romantic tradition of depicting a crucifix in a mysteriously transfigured mountain landscape, as is known, for example, from the legendary «Tetschener Altar», a major work by the grand master of Romantic painting, Caspar David Friedrich (1774 - 1840).
We would like to thank Dr. Ruth Hötzel-Dickel,
Provenance: private collection Rhineland.
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