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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 25.–26.11.2022
Urban, Rolf
Born 1958 Bretten, lives and works ibid.
Untitled.
Unique colour linocut on strong paper. Signed lower right and dated 1990.
H 145,
«[For Rolf Urban, the linocut technique] combines the precision of drawing with the possibilities of painting and leads to distinctly pictorial results. Contributing to this is also the dimension of the picture format, which approaches that of panel paintings. After a plan sketch, which determines the compositional weights, the realisation of the motif on the plate begins. [...] Only the use of coloured inks in numerous printing processes, which are repeated until the desired tone is achieved, imparts spatial complexity and a differentiated colouristic effect to the subject. Irregular consistency of the paint, slight shifting of the surfaces creates delicate transparency and painterly blurriness. The gradual condensation of the pictorial idea corresponds with the iconographic openness of the formal components of the composition. References to landscape and still life emerge.» from: Vereinigung der Freunde der Kunstakademie Karlsruhe e.V. (Ed.), Rolf Urban, Linolschnitt-Unikate, Karlsruhe 1990, p. 3.
Provenance: purchased at Galerie Baumgarten,
Literature: Vereinigung der Freunde der Kunstakademie Karlsruhe e.V. (Ed.), Rolf Urban, Linolschnitt-Unikate, Karlsruhe 1990, p. 9 - 20 (cf.).
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