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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Thoma, Hans
1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe.
Öl/Karton. Heimkehrende Kühe. Unter abendlichem Himmel an den Hängen eines Schwarzwaldtals im Vordergrund weidende Kühe, neben einem Hügel im Sonnenlicht eine Bäuerin, in der Ferne dunkle Tannen. U.r. monogr. und (18)93 dat. Verso Etikett der Sammlung Georg Schäfer, Schweinfurt, und bez. «Frl. Rosa Livingston».
Thoma, der nach autodidaktischer Vorbildung in Karlsruhe und München studierte und in Karlsruhe 1901 Direktor der Kunsthalle wurde, gehört zu den erfolgreichsten und populärsten Malern der Wende vom 19. zum
Provenienz: Rosa Livingston, Frankfurt a.M.; Sammlung Georg Schäfer, Schweinfurt; Schweizer Privatsammlung.
Literatur: Henry Thode, Thoma. Des Meisters Gemälde, Stuttgart und Leipzig 1909, S. XLIII und 374, mit Abb.
Cows Returning Home. Oil on cardboard. Monogrammed lower right and dated (18)93. Verso label of Georg Schäfer Collection, Schweinfurt, and inscribed «Frl. Rosa Livingston». Provenance: Rosa Livingston, Frankfurt a.M.; Georg Schäfer Collection, Schweinfurt; Swiss private collection. Literature: Henry Thode, Thoma. Des Meisters Gemälde, Stuttgart and Leipzig 1909,