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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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Spiro, Eugen (Eugene) school
1874 Breslau - 1972 New York.
Portrait Eugene Spiro. The artist, smoking a cigar, in front of one of his landscape paintings.
Oil on canvas. Unsigned. Verso on the stretcher a branding stamp of the US Art Canvas Co., New York. Verso on the back of the frame a printed collection label handwritten inscribed with the work's data and the provenance.
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This painting shows the artist Eugen Spiro, who was born in Breslau, sitting on a wooden armchair with a concentrated gaze absorbed in a booklet while he casually balances a cigar between his lips. By comparison with other (self-)portraits of the artist, one can conclude that he was depicted here around his 70th year. At this time, i.e. in the 1940s and early 1950s, he was living in New York and passing on his great talent in teaching to the next generation. In contrast to his self-portraits, in which Spiro predominantly seeks eye contact with the viewer, the pupil in this unsigned work has shown him in profile and added the painting dominating the background as a reference to the master's oeuvre, which is probably a French landscape by Spiro from the 1930s.
We would like to thank Mr Marco Zambon, Galerie von Abercron, Munich, for the kind remarks via
Provenance: according to the consignor purchased at Kuhlmann & Struck, Hamburg, in March 1996; since then private collection Hamburg and Markgräflerland.
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