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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 20.–21.11.2020
Grosz, George
1893 Berlin - 1959 ibid.
«Der muntere Kranke. Frederic und Catherine (the feisty patient. Frederic and Catherine)».
1932. Reed pen, pen and India ink as well as pencil on light, cream wove paper, mounted on backing cardboard at the upper margin. Unsigned. Badly legible inscribed by a different hand «Hemingway [...]» upper left. Verso dated by hand «ca 1930», numbered «LyNr 812» and inventory number of the estate «3 115 4». Verso dated by a different hand «30 5 (19)59» and inscribed «GG».
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As part of a literature and picture puzzle, the drawing «The feisty patient. Frederic and Catherine» appeared in 1932 in the «UHU», a magazine of the Ullstein publishing house in Berlin. Readers were asked to guess a romance novel based on an excerpt and an illustration by George Grosz. The literary model for the feisty patient is the novel «A Farewell to Arms» by Ernest Hemingway, translated into German in 1930, which is about the American Frederic, who fights on the Italian side in World War I and falls in love with a British nurse named Catherine. The experiences of the horrors of the war have pushed Grosz and Hemingway, who were enemies in the war, equally in an anti-militaristic direction. Later they were supposed to meet as friends in mutual admiration of their work.
Photo expert report: Ralph Jentsch, Berlin/Rome, 26.08.2020.
We would like to thank Ralph Jentsch, Berlin/Rome, for the scientific consultation, based on photos.
Provenance: studio of the artist, Berlin, 1932; estate of the artist, 1959; Galerie Ralph Jentsch, Munich; purchased at the Galerie Ralph Jentsch during the Art Cologne, Cologne, in 1994; since then med art-collection of the HUG-group,
Literature: UHU, Das neue Ullsteinmagazin, Ullstein Verlag Berlin,
Catalogue raisonné: The work will be listed in the upcoming catalogue raisonné of works on paper by Ralph Jentsch. 
Grosz, George
1893 Berlin - 1959 ebd.
«Der muntere Kranke. Frederic und Catherine».
1932. Rohrfeder, Feder und Tusche, sowie Bleistift auf leichtem, chamoisfarbenem Velin, am oberen Rand auf Unterlagekarton montiert. Unsign. O.l. von fremder Hand schlecht leserlich bez. «Hemingway [...]». Verso handschriftlich «ca 1930» dat., «LyNr 812» num. und Inventarnr. des Nachlasses «3 115 4». Verso von fremder Hand «30 5 (19)59» dat. und bez. «GG».
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Als Teil eines Literatur- und Bilderrätsels erschien die Zeichnung «Der muntere Kranke. Frederic und Catherine» 1932 im «UHU», einem Magazin des Berliner Ullstein Verlags. Die Lesenden sollten anhand eines Textauszuges und einer Illustration von George Grosz einen Liebesroman erraten. Das literarische Vorbild für den munteren Kranken ist der 1930 ins Deutsche übersetzte Roman «In einem anderen Land» von Ernest Hemingway, in dem es um den Amerikaner Frederic geht, der im Ersten Weltkrieg auf italienischer Seite kämpft und sich in die britische Krankenschwester Catherine verliebt. Die Erfahrungen der Schrecken des Krieges haben Grosz und Hemingway, die sich im Krieg als Feinde gegenüberstanden, gleichermaßen in eine antimilitaristische Richtung gedrängt. Später sollten sie sich als Freunde in gegenseitiger Bewunderung ihres Schaffens begegnen.
Photo-Gutachten: Ralph Jentsch, Berlin/Rom, 26.08.2020.
Wir danken Herrn Ralph Jentsch, Berlin/Rom, für die wissenschaftliche Beratung, anhand von Photos.
Provenienz: Atelier des Künstlers, Berlin, 1932; Nachlass des Künstlers, 1959; Galerie Ralph Jentsch, München; erworben 1994 in der Galerie Ralph Jentsch auf der Art Cologne, Köln; seitdem med art-Sammlung der HUG-Gruppe,
Literatur: UHU, Das neue Ullsteinmagazin, Ullstein Verlag Berlin, 8. Jahrgang, Heft 8, Mai 1932,
Werkverzeichnis: Das Werk wird in dem in Bearbeitung befindlichen Werkverzeichnis der Arbeiten auf Papier von Ralph Jentsch aufgeführt.