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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
Böttcher, Petra
Born 1957 Cuxhaven, lives and works in Efringen-Kirchen.
«Ein Teil von ‹Zielstrebig I› (a part of ‹determined I›)».
Pinhole camera photography, long exposure, cropped scale enlargement from «Zielstrebig I» on Ilfochrome. Signed lower right on the passepartout. Dated 1998 lower left and titled.
H 20,
In digital times, the pinhole camera seems almost like an archaic rarity. Petra Böttcher's pinhole photographs take the viewer back to the beginnings of the photographic technique. But what at first appears to be a restriction to minimal design possibilities is precisely the attraction for the artist based in Efringen-Kirchen. «Her pictures are often composed of several exposures that are pushed horizontally into one after the other. The picture parts merge - without a visible beginning or recognisable end.» from: Peter Olpe, Out of Focus, Lochkamerafotografie und Lochkameras, Salenstein 2012, p. 112.
The bulb exposures «Zielstrebig I and II» were taken during a night drive from Singen to Lörrach in summer 1998. The line patterns are based on the light traces of the motor traffic.
Authentication: We would like to thank the artist for the kind remarks and for the authentication, via
Provenance: purchased at the Galerie im Schürli, Niedereggen, in 1998; since then private collection Dreiländereck.
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starting price: 250,- EUR