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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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Wit, Jakob de
1695 Amsterdam - 1754 ebd.
Two grisaille paintings with allegorical putto depictions. Oil on canvas, relined. Unsigned. Restored. Unframed.
Already during his lifetime Jakob de Wit was first of all famous for his trompe-l'oeil-decoration paintings and highly esteemed even far beyond the borders of the Dutch provinces. He achieved the highest artistic skills in the depiction of mostly allegorical motifs, frequently sceneries populated with putti, he executed in oil on canvas. Thereby he knew how to imitate stone reliefs masterly and in a deceptively realistic way just by using extremely fine colour gradations of grey, and let them appear to the observer like fully sculptural figures. Originally these paintings were partial component of wall decorations and frequently integrated into wooden wall panellings as supraporte.
Provenance: Gallery Dr. Schenk, Zurich; private collection Germany; Koller auctions, Zurich, 18.03.1999, lot 98; private collection France.
1695 Amsterdam - 1754 ebd.
Zwei Grisaillen mit Darstellungen von Putti. Öl auf Leinwand, doubliert. Unsign. Altrest.
Jakob de Wit war bereits zu Lebzeiten vor allem für seine Trompe-l'oeil-Dekorationsmalereien bekannt und bis weit über die Grenzen der Niederlande hinaus hoch geschätzt. Dabei erreichte er höchste künstlerische Fertigkeiten in der Darstellung meist allegorischer Motive, häufig mit Putti bevölkerte Szenerien, die er in Öl auf Leinwand ausführte. Dabei verstand er es, in feinsten Grauabstufungen meisterlich und täuschend realistisch Steinreliefs zu imitieren, die dem Betrachter wie vollplastische Stuckaturen erschienen. Ursprünglich waren diese Gemälde Bestandteil der Wanddekoration und häufig als Supraporten in Vertäfelungen integriert.
Provenienz: Galerie Dr. Schenk, Zürich; Privatsammlung Deutschland; Koller Auktionen, Zürich, 18.03.1999, Los 98; Privatsammlung Frankreich.