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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.

Karl Hauptmann

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Mythologischer Zeichner
Mythological drawer probably Italy second half 18th C. Cupid with the wounded Venus. Ink pen and brush drawing in light brown, partially washed, on ribbed (Vergé) paper (watermark). Unsigned. Numbered upper left «No. 99», cut off round stamp lower right. Paper with isolated small holes, foxing, verso traces of mounting.
In the mythology Venus wounded her foot with the thorn of a rose while running after Adonis. In the present work she is drying the blood on her foot with the border of her robe. A depiction of very similar composition and same theme was created in pastel in the second half of the 18th Century by Francesco Pavona (1695 - 1777) and belongs to the original furnishing of castle Wörlitz. Very popular subject of several works by various painters and graphic artists during the early 16th until the 18th Century.

deutsch Wohl Italien 2. Hälfte 18. Jh.
Amor mit der verletzten Venus. Tintenzeichnung mit Feder und Pinsel in Hellbraun, teilweise laviert, auf geripptem (Vergé) Papier (Wasserzeichen). Unsign. O.l. «No. 99» num., u.r. angeschnittener, runder Stempel. Vereinzelt kl. Löcher im Papier, stockfleckig, verso mit Montierungsresten. H. 22,3, B. 19,2 cm (Blattgröße).
In der Mythologie läuft Venus Adonis nach und verletzt sich an einem Rosendorn, der in ihrem Fuß stecken bleibt. Das herabtropfende Blut fängt sie hier mit dem Saum ihres Gewandes auf. Eine Darstellung mit sehr ähnlicher Komposition und gleicher Thematik wurde in der 2. Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts von Francesco Pavona (1695 - 1777) in Pastell geschaffen und gehört zur Originalausstattung des Schlosses Wörlitz. Beliebtes Sujet zahlreicher Werke verschiedener Maler und Graphiker des frühen 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts.

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