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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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3024
Winterauktionen 24.–25.11.2023
Acht, René
1920 Basel - 1998 Herbolzheim.
Untitled.
Cut-out made of black photo cardboard on wove paper. Signed lower left and dated «14-12-(19)70».
H 100, W 70 cm (sheet). Framed.
«To make a cut-out, I need a simple, medium-sized pair of scissors and mostly black photo cardboard in the format 100 x 70 cm. For larger cuts I use black paper from a roll. All the works are cut with scissors and never with a knife. They are almost all cut from one piece, never from the same side or from a fold. [...] I draw with pencil laterally reversed on the cardboard, take the ruler for straight stretches, but I never use it as a running guide when cutting freehand. Inaccuracies in cutting testify to my physical and psychological state at the time. Distance creeps in between me and the cardboard, while I strive for objective design and timeless expression. The cutting itself often takes hours and is very exhausting. Cut-outs that become symbols, signs that are messages.» René Acht in: Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Kunstmuseum Singen and Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau (eds.), René Acht, Lyrisch-Konkret, Cologne 2021, p. 152f.
Authentication: We would like to thank Ms Bärbel Acht and Mr Andreas H.H. Suberg, Nachlass René Acht, for the verbal authentication based on the original on-site, 18.09.2023.
Provenance: purchased at Galerie Regio, Lörrach, in 1971; since then private collection Dreiländereck.
Invoice: Galerie Regio, Lörrach, 21.05.1971, invoice amount 800 DM (approx. 409 €).

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starting price: 400,- EUR