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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
Corbin, Dan
Born 1947, lives and works in Chico.
«The Display».
Bauxite, colored oxides, acrylic impregnated clay, lead sheet and other sheet metals, as well as a glass bottle imbedded within resin, mounted on carbon steel plinth. Signed on the right thigh, dated 2002 and with the stamp of the artist's workshop.
H 148,
W 58,
We encounter a female figure in a confident, determined posture, in ideal proportions and at the same time fragmented like the body of a shop-window mannequin. On the rough, almost coarse surface with its paint residues, grid-like segments open up and reveal an irritating inner life, the geometric lines and structures of a microchip, labyrinthine, abstract and tangled like a maze from a bird's eye view. These openings reveal the body as a technoid hybrid, as a cybernetic organism, programmed by its creator to function, to serve, deprived of free will, objectified and dehumanised. And yet «The Display» seems desirably self-confident, disturbingly beautiful and at the same time, like an ambitious artificial intelligence, ready to take control of its creator at any time.
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Provenance: med art-collection of the HUG-group, Freiburg i.Br.
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