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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
Adam, Richard Benno
1873 München - 1937 ibid.
Mounted officer of the Austro-Hungarian Army «in the field».
Oil on canvas. Signed lower right and dated 1919. Verso on the stretcher inscribed probably by a different hand with the data of the painting supplies shop «Gebr. Otte Hamburg Steindamm 45».
H 105,5,
An officer on horseback, presumably a lieutenant-colonel in the infantry, decorated with the Military Cross of Merit, the Iron Cross and the Order of Leopold, stands on the edge of a battlefield and gazes into the distance over burning ruins. This imposing portrait of monumental character is part of a heroic culture of remembrance of the lost First World War that was common in Austria and Germany in the 1920s and 1930s.
We would like to thank Dr. Thomas Weißbrich, head of collection Militaria, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, for the kind remarks via
Provenance: private collection Hamburg and Markgräflerland.
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