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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 24.–25.11.2023
Schröder-Sonnenstern, Friedrich
1892 Kaukehmen by Tilsit - 1982 Berlin.
«Die Göttin der Eile (the goddess of haste)». «Mondelinchen, fortschrittliche Rekordleistung zu Lande, Luft und Meer (Mondelinchen, advanced record performance on land, air and sea)».
Coloured pencil on brownish wove paper. Signed lower middle, monogrammed, dated 1949 and titled. Verso numbered «1967/001» as well as a printed label from the Galerie Hilt, Basel, with the work's data.
H 51,5,
The fantastic, often erotic to grotesque image worlds of Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern are considered as examples of outsider art. Sonnenstern, who had a veritable psychiatric career in his earlier years, did not begin to draw until he was over 50. This is where he was able to express his visions. The motif of the goddess of haste, or Mondelinchen, which he created here in 1949 in an early drawing, appears several more times in his later work.
Schröder-Sonnenstern did not always have a good reputation in the art world. Through his enormous productivity - also by means of helpers - he also contributed to this himself. «At the same time, casually said the artist, who was increasingly addicted to alcohol, there was one infallible mark of authenticity: the splashes of chewing tobacco on the paper.» from: Dorothée Brill, Mondmoralische Praxis, 07.01.2014, Link.
«So I can't make enough round shapes in my paintings - no sharp corners, because that would be life itself. All roundness is there for cognition. Battle of the Sun Stars I against the Moon Stars II. I Rightness of life: natural, become, growth. II Wrongness of life: artificial, made, withering.» Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern, in: Galerie Hoeppner (Ed.), Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern, Original-Buntstiftbilder, Zeichnungen, Lithographien, Hamburg 1972, w/o p.
Provenance: purchased at Galerie Hilt, Basel, in 1998; since then private collection Dreiländereck.
Invoice: Galerie Hilt, Basel, 18.04.1998, invoice amount
Literature: Galerie Hoeppner (Ed.), Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern, Original-Buntstiftbilder, Zeichnungen, Lithographien, Hamburg 1972, inside front cover (cf.).
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