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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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Herbstauktionen 23.–24.09.2016
Weiwei, Ai
Geb. 1957 Peking, lebt und arbeitet in Peking und Berlin.
«Rocks».
In 2011, Gallery Neugerriemschneider in Berlin presented for the very first time the «Rocks» together with the «Trees», two monumental bare and barkless tree sculptures from dead, reassembled wood. The artist had the porcelain stones of the installation being produced in the Chinese town of Jingdezhen, where porcelain pottery has been made for more than 1700 years. Due to their form, the white glazed sculptures, painted with blue bands of clouds at their surface, are appearing like Taihu-stones, traditional Chinese garden rocks, which are decorating the landscape either individually or arranged in groups. In addition to these formal-aesthetical aspects and characteristics of Ai Weiwei's works, there are also conceptual and philosophical references to the Chinese history and present intended and visible.
Authentication: Gallery Urs Meile, Beijing/Luzern, May 2012.
Provenance: purchased at Gallery Urs Meile, Beijing/Luzern; since then private collection Baden-Wuerttemberg.
Geb. 1957 Peking, lebt und arbeitet in Peking und Berlin.
«Rocks».
H. 11
Die «Rocks» wurden erstmals 2011 gemeinsam mit den «Trees», zwei monumentalen kahlen und rindenlosen Baumskulpturen aus totem, neu zusammengefügten Holz, in der Galerie Neugerriemschneider in Berlin präsentiert. Die Porzellansteine der Installation ließ der Künstler in der chinesischen Stadt Jingdezhen produzieren, die auf eine mehr als 1700-jährige Tradition in der Porzellanmanufaktur zurückblickt. Die weiß glasierten, auf ihrer Oberfläche mit blauen Wolkenbändern verzierten Plastiken erinnern in ihrer Form an Taihu-Steine, traditionelle chinesische Gartenfelsen, die einzeln stehend oder in Gruppen arrangiert die Landschaft mitgestalten. Neben diesen formalästhetischen Aspekten sind - charakteristisch für die Werke Ai Weiweis - auch konzeptionell-philosophische Bezüge zur chinesischen Geschichte und Gegenwart intendiert und erkennbar.
Authentifizierung: Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing/Luzern, Mai 2012.
Provenienz: erworben in der Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing/Luzern; seitdem Privatsammlung Baden-Württemberg.