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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
Itten, Johannes
1888 Wachseldorn - 1967 Zürich.
«Kreise und Quadrate (circles and squares)».
Oil, tempera and India ink on paper. U.r. signed and dated (19)63.
H. 16,
It is difficult to say whether Johannes Itten was aware of the effect he was to have on modern painting when he taught at the Bauhaus in Weimar. In any case, his theoretical works on the subjects of colour and contrasts are so influential that the «Colour Circle according to Johannes Itten» is still used in art lessons at schools.
Authentication: We would like to thank Prof. Dr. Christoph Wagner, author of the new catalogue raisonné, Regensburg, for the authentication via
Provenance: formerly collection Willy Rotzler (1917 - 1994), Zurich.
As a freelance art writer, Willy Rotzler wrote numerous publications on modern art and was the editor of the first catalogue raisonné of Johannes Itten's works.
Catalogue raisonné: Itten 1150; Wagner vol. 2, 1963-036-W.
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