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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
Landscape painter
Germany late
Rural scene on the idyllic Rhine.
Oil on canvas, relined. Unsigned.
H 57,
The poetically staged river landscape shows in the foreground the rural life at the bank: a mother returning from doing the laundry at the river with her child, who turns to a dog and would like to stay a little longer, fishermen loading a barge or even smugglers (?), a donkey rider and people at leisure. While a threatening-looking rocky slope frames the scene on the left, the view opens up in the middle and background to an idyllic village and the wide Rhine landscape. The depiction is typical of the late 18th Century.
Provenance: private collection Achern.
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starting price: 700,- EUR