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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 19.–20.11.2021
Pair of malachite vases in the style of French Early Classicism
Probably France or Russia mid
Square base, short, tapered shaft with bundled laurel wreath, ovoid body supported by a star-shaped fanned out flower cluster, lateral handles in the shape of ram heads, connected with flower festoons, dome-shaped lid on circumferential cavetto, crowned by pine cones. Inscribed «L Haunz» under the bottom.
H 42,5,
Ram's heads, pine cones, floral garlands and bows are part of the cheerfully playful ornamental vocabulary of French Classicism on the eve of the Revolution, based on antique models, as encountered in refined works of interior art realised for Queen Marie-Antoinette (1755 - 1793), for example on the walls of the Turkish boudoir in the château of Fontainebleau or in the queen's dairy in the garden of Rambouillet. Under the influence of the nostalgic personality cult around the notorious Queen of Misfortune, celebrated by the elegance-minded Empress of the French Eugénie (1826 - 1920) from 1852 onwards, the Louis XVI style was given a new lease of life throughout Europe. At the same time, the bright green-grained malachite was being mined in large quantities in the Urals near Ekaterinburg and found excessive use in the representative rooms of the Tsar's court, such as the Malachite Room of the Winter Palace, or as lavish column cladding in St Petersburg's St Isaac's Cathedral. In the form of vases, bowls or mantelpieces, malachite was sent by the tsar's house as a diplomatic gift to all the courts of Europe, as evidenced, for example, by the malachite rooms in the Orangerie Palace in Potsdam or the Grand Trianon in Versailles. It is in this synergetic field of tension between Russian malachite mania and the revival of French royal styles during the Second Empire that this imposing pair of vases can be located.
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