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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 25.–26.11.2022
Rainer, Arnulf
Born 1929 Baden by Vienna, lives and works in Enzenkirchen and Teneriffa.
«Rotes Kreuz unter Kopf (red cross under head)».
1969/70 and 1994. Oil pastels, coloured pencil and pencil over drypoint in colour «Flammenherz (flaming heart)» on strong laid paper. Etching signed lower right, numbered 39/9(9) lower left and with the publisher's drystamp «ATELIER GERERSDORFER WIEN». Overpainting titled lower middle.
H 54,
The original etching «Flammenherz (flaming heart)» (catalogue raisonné Breicha R 102 II) was published by Atelier Gerersdorfer, Vienna, and printed by Rudolf Lauterbach, Vienna.
Arnulf Rainer has been known as «the overpainter» since the 1950s. He mostly reworked works by other artists, often photographs. In this piece, Rainer painted over his own colour etching from 1969/70. It represents one of his classic pictorial subjects - the cross - an elementary form that Rainer takes up again and again and develops in numerous variants, without understanding it as sacral art. 25 years later he turns to this etching again with an overpainting that shows Rainer's typical dynamic strokes and that juxtaposes the cross and the head (almost equally).
Authentication: We would like to thank Ms Petra Berndorfer, Studio Arnulf Rainer, for the authentication and dating of the overpainting via
Provenance: private collection Markgräflerland.
Catalogue raisonné: The work will be included in the upcoming catalogue raisonné.
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