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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 24.–25.11.2023
Baden army shako
Baden 1840s. Felt, leather, cardboard, fabric and brass. The shako of a Baden infantryman is decorated with a crowned Baden griffin and the letter «L» as front decoration for Grand Duke Leopold, a chain of scales above the front visor and a cockade.
H 23,
The shako is a military cap of Hungarian origin, which was also introduced in Baden by order of 26 March 1823. This example was worn by a soldier in the battle for Staufen against Gustav Struve's Freischaren (i.e. irregular volunteer military) on 24 September 1848.
Gustav Struve had proclaimed the German Republic in Lörrach on 21 September. This revolutionary event in the Grand Duchy of Baden, known as the Struve Putsch or the Second Baden Uprising, was put down by the Baden troops under General Friedrich Hoffmann in the battle of Staufen.
«General Hoffmann, the Baden Minister of War, commanded the two infantry battalions and one cavalry squadron, a total of approximately 800 men, who had marched towards Struve coming from Freiburg. Hoffmann attacked the insurgents, who had entrenched themselves in the town with makeshift barricades, from the west. They could not withstand the artillery fire for long and soon the military stormed the town. After two hours, the battle for the last houses was over. Eleven irregulars as well as five Staufen citizens and one soldier were killed.» from: Catalogue Badisches Landesmuseum p. 226. The shako was found after the battle in Staufen.
Provenance: private collection Markgräflerland.
Restoration report: Badisches Landesmuseum, 01.10.1997.
Exhibition: 1848/49, Revolution der deutschen Demokraten in Baden, Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe 27.02. - 02.08.1997.
Literature: Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe (Ed.), 1848/49, Revolution der deutschen Demokraten in Baden, Baden-Baden 1998,
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