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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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Mythologischer Meister
Mythological painter probably first half
The depicted motif is one of those transformation scenes from Ovid's «Metamorphoses», which were enjoying greatest popularity since the Renaissance period. Only the darker complexion indicates the deceiver as a man, while he is approaching the unsuspecting nymph.
Wohl 1. Hälfte
Jupiter in Gestalt der Diana verführt Kallisto. Öl auf Leinwand, auf Holz kaschiert. Unsign. Altrest.
H. 126,5,
Dargestellt ist eine der Verwandlungsszenen aus Ovids «Metamorphosen», die sich seit der Renaissance größter Beliebtheit erfreuen. Allein die dunklere Hautfarbe macht den Verführer noch als Mann kenntlich, während er sich der ahnungslosen Nymphe nähert.