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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
Dorazio, Piero
1927 Rome - 2005 Perugia.
«Diafano».
Oil on coarse canvas. Verso signed, dated 1980 and titled. Verso on the stretcher and on the canvas overlap each with the artist's stamp, there both numbered with the work number «1190», a further indistinct stamp as well as a printed label from the Galerie Dr. Luise Krohn, Badenweiler.
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As one of the leading artists of concrete art, Piero Dorazio was dedicated to the phenomena of light and colour in his works. Finding inspiration in Expressionism, Cubism and Surrealism, Dorazio's œuvre always displayed the for him characteristic consistent geometry and structure. For his abstract visual language, Dorazio predominantly used primary colours, which he overlays, combines, strings together and repeats in a series of different patterns.
«[...] but in a different technique, in which the vertical brushstrokes along the coloured bands are dissolved in a rapid rhythmic sequence. It [the paint] evokes moments when the sunlight seems to linger and focus only on the eyes, sensations and feelings.» from: Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna Roma (Ed.,), Dorazio, Milan 1983, p. 84.
We would like to thank Mr Stefano Risso, Archivio Piero Dorazio, Milan, for the kind remarks via
For a fee and after an assessment based on the original by the expert committee of the Archivio Piero Dorazio, the present work can be registered in the archive.
Provenance: purchased at Galerie Dr. Luise Krohn, Badenweiler, in 1983; since then private collection Müllheim in the Markgräflerland.
Literature: Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna Roma (Ed.), Dorazio, Milan 1983, p. 84, ill. 70 (cf.).
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