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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.

Karl Hauptmann

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2045
Winterauktionen 20.–21.11.2020
Havers, Mandy
Born 1953 Portsmouth, lives and works in Coventry.
«One Body».
1992. Leather, felt, wood and glass eyes as well as oil on canvas. Signed under one arm. Stains.
H 174, W 60, D 45 cm.
Rusty-red, brownish leather, imitating the colour of exposed muscle strands, dominates this whimsical, captivatingly curious work, reminiscent of the enlightened yet eerie skinned statues of the 18th century academies known as écorchés. Two musclemen, joined back to back like Siamese twins, ending in a single stele, look into the distance with their empty, pupil-less eyes. Their arms cut off through smooth cuts, they are condemned in their fragmented state to eternal passivity and observing standstill. As with the Roman god Janus, their heads point in opposite directions and embody the incompatibility of extremes competing to infinity, such as becoming and passing, life and death, past and future.
Authentication: We would like to thank Mr Nicholas Treadwell, Treadwell Gallery, Vienna, for the direct consultation of the artist and the authentication via E-Mail, based on photos, 12.09.2020.
Provenance: purchased at the C10 Galerie - Ulrike Behrends, Düsseldorf, in the 1990s; since then med art-collection of the HUG-group, Freiburg i.Br.

deutsch Havers, Mandy
Geb. 1953 Portsmouth, lebt und arbeitet in Coventry.
«One Body».
1992. Leder, Filz, Holz und Glasaugen sowie Öl auf Leinwand. Unter einem Arm sign. Flecken.
H. 174, B. 60, T. 45 cm.
Rostrotes, bräunliches Leder, die Farbe offen gelegter Muskelstränge imitierend, beherrscht diese wunderliche, fesselnd-kuriose Arbeit, die an die aufklärerischen und zugleich schaurigen, gehäuteten Statuen der Akademien des 18. Jahrhunderts, Écorchés genannt, erinnert. Zwei Muskelmänner, Rücken an Rücken verbunden wie siamesische Zwillinge, nach unten in einem einzigen, säulenartigen Stumpf auslaufend, blicken mit ihren leeren, pupillenlosen Augen in die Ferne. Die Arme mit glatten Schnitten abgelöst, sind sie in ihrem fragmentierten Zustand zu ewiger Passivität und beobachtendem Stillstand verdammt. Wie beim römischen Gott Janus weisen ihre Häupter in entgegengesetzte Richtungen und verkörpern die Unvereinbarkeit der bis in die Unendlichkeit konkurrierenden Extreme wie Werden und Vergehen, Leben und Tod, Vergangenheit und Zukunft.
Echtheitsbestätigung: Wir danken Herrn Nicholas Treadwell, Treadwell Gallery, Wien, für die direkte Rücksprache mit der Künstlerin und die Bestätigung der Echtheit via E-Mail, anhand von Photos, 12.09.2020.
Provenienz: erworben in den 1990er Jahren in der C10 Galerie - Ulrike Behrends, Düsseldorf; seitdem med art-Sammlung der HUG-Gruppe, Freiburg i.Br.
 

hammer price: 2000,- EUR
(starting price: 1500,- EUR)