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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
Vernet, Émile Jean Horace attr.
1789 Paris - 1863 ibid.
Napoleon on horseback.
Oil on canvas, relined. Unsigned. On a brass plate on the frame inscribed «Horace Vernet
H 125,
Horace Vernet was a convinced Bonapartist and made a career as a history and military painter under Napoleon's regime. The genre of equestrian portraits suited him better than almost any other painter of the time. He usually depicted famous people galloping on powerful, expressive horses. The fact that he acquired a certain repertoire of classical horse postures in the process, which he varied again and again, was the usual working method of the time. Thus, both in the catalogue raisonné and in the art trade of the 2000s, several almost identically galloping horses can be found in Vernet's work.
His German pupil Simon Meister (1796 - 1844) painted a portrait of Napoleon on horseback in 1732, in which - although the horse assumes a different posture - the depiction of Napoleon is almost identical to the present painting. Meister's portrait is in the Simeonstift, Trier, with the inventory number III 0260.
Provenance: Bantikow Castle, Wusterhausen/Dosse.
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