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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
Gentz, Wilhelm
1822 Neuruppin - 1890 Berlin.
Portrait of a young Abyssinian lady in an oriental colourful skirt and a pale chemise with trumpet sleeves.
Oil on canvas, mounted on cardboard. Monogrammed lower right. Verso inscribed «W. Gentz» probably by Ismael Gentz, the artist's son, badly legible inscribed «Stein» by a different hand and a collection label handwritten inscribed with the work's data and the provenance.
H 36,
H 37,3,
«[...] Gentz created countless studies of people in various poses and garments, either partially or in their entirety, which were not included in his catalogue raisonné but were kept in portfolios at home. [...]Very typical is the excessively strong oil brushstroke in colours arranged under and over each other in the drapery of the skirt, which serves as an eye-catcher. The use of many and very bright colours is also characteristic of Gentz, who was considered a colourist. The thick, spread-out drops of colour produced intentionally by overpainting are characteristic and comparable to other Gentz sketches and studies. They are the painter's exercises in testing the effect in the painting. [...]» from: Irina Rockel, authentication verification, Vielitz, 05.09.2021.
Authentication verification: Dr. Irina Rockel, Vielitz, 05.09.2021.
We would like to thank Dr. Irina Rockel, author of the catalogue raisonné, Vielitz, for the scientific advice via
Provenance: according to the consignor purchased at Auktionshaus Carl F. Schlüter, Hamburg, in March 2002; since then private collection Hamburg and Markgräflerland.
Catalogue raisonné: The work will be listed in the upcoming addendum to the catalogue raisonné.
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