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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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2067
Winterauktionen 19.–20.11.2021
Schwichtenberg, Martel
1896 Hanover - 1945 Sulzburg.
Fruit still life with red apples and table grapes.
Circa 1925. Oil on canvas. Signed upper right.
H 60,5,
The painter and graphic artist Martel Schwichtenberg was born as Justine Adele Martha Schwichtenberg in Hanover in 1896. After studying at a private art school and the Kunstgewerbeschule in Düsseldorf, she moved to Berlin in 1920, where she joined the Werkbund and the Novembergruppe and gave herself the first name «Martel», which came from a brand of cognac. In the following years she worked as a graphic designer for the biscuit manufacturer Bahlsen, among others, but also created numerous portraits and still lifes in a style inspired by the «Brücke»-Expressionism and the Neue Sachlichkeit. Although she had emigrated to South Africa in 1933, she returned to Germany for a visit in 1939 after a devastating fire had destroyed her new domicile, including her studio and about 400 works. Here she was surprised by the outbreak of the Second World War and was not allowed to return to her adopted home, which is why she went into «inner emigration». She spent the years until 1945 in the Black Forest, among others in the Glotterbad sanatorium, and died in Sulzburg shortly after the end of the war.
Provenance: private collection Northern Germany.
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