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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 19.–20.11.2021
Zhu, Jinshi
Born 1954 Beijing, lives and works in Beijing.
«Box in the corner».
Acrylic on canvas. Verso on the stretcher signed, dated 2002 and titled in Chinese.
H 40,
«When I see the structure of a painting, I pay attention to the guidance of the brush, to the density of the applied colours, to the relationships between colours and empty spaces and to the seams between colours and canvas. These formal elements determine the quality of my paintings.» Zhu Jinshi, Berlin, 25.03.1990.
Zhu Jinshi's works are pictures that do not linger on their canvas: Mountains and valleys rise from the flat ground and let the eye wander between the heights and depths. With his painting style, the artist refers to the works of the Expressionists, who had a lasting influence on him during his years living in Berlin. With the title, the artist refers to his first Berlin studio, where his supply of acrylic paints was stored in a «box in the corner», the only luggage he had brought with him from China to Germany, as he had been told that acrylic paints were very expensive in Germany.
Authentication: We would like to thank Ms Qin Yufen, wife of the artist, for the authentication via
Provenance: gift of the artist; since then private collection High Rhine.
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