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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
Naegeli, Harald Oskar called the Sprayer of Zurich
Born 1939 Zurich, lives and works in Zurich.
Untitled. Figure.
Spray paint on paper. Signed lower left and dated «12/1/(19)96».
H 179,
Piece of art or vandalism? - What Harald Naegeli sprayed on the walls of Zurich since 1977 «[...] was a protest against the inhospitability of cities, of architecture», as the sprayer pointed out in a Spiegel article in 2013 (in: Sarah Levy, Graffiti-Pionier Harald Naegeli, die Dosenrevolution, in: Der Spiegel, 27.08.2013). Society saw him controversially as somewhere between «modern-day Till Eulenspiegel», who created new graffitis every night, and a vandal. For the judiciary, he was clearly the latter.
For years on the run from the authorities, he found exile in Germany, more precisely in Düsseldorf, sheltered by the local art scene. In the meantime, he has returned to his hometown, more or less in reconciliation. Anyway, Naegeli has achieved one thing, and that is to pave the way for the next generation of street artists.
Provenance: private collection Dreiländereck.
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