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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.

Karl Hauptmann

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Winterauktionen 19.–20.11.2021
Athanasius Kircher
Obeliscus Pamphilius hoc est, interpretatio nova & hucusque intentata obelisci hieroglyphici [...]. Rome, Lodovico Grignani, 1650. With a frontispiece by C. Bloemaert after a draft by Giovanni Angelo Canini, the coat of arms and the portrait of Pope Innocent X, a folding copper plate depicting the obelisk, numerous woodcuts as well as some ornamental initials. 560 p. Not collated. Contemporary calf with embossed borders and reddish edges. In addition an opened, empty, handwritten inscribed envelope of the time.
H 32,6, W 23,4 cm.
As a Jesuit, polymath as well as founder and administrator of the cabinet of curiosities known as the «Museum Kircherianum», Athanasius Kircher (1602 - 1680) defined the intellectual landscape of baroque Rome in the 17th century. One of his many interests was the millennia-old culture and language of Egypt. In the city on the Tiber, he encountered the obelisks, stone witnesses to ancient Egyptian civilisation, covered with engraved hieroglyphs, whose translation the German-born «uomo universale» tried his hand at. Once stolen from the land of the Pharaohs for the glory of the Caesars to adorn the capital of the Roman Empire, these huge needles of granite largely toppled over the centuries and shaped the appearance of the papal city as shattered fragments. In his work «Obeliscus Pamphilius», Kircher describes the restored Obelisco Agonale, a monolithic colossus that in ancient times adorned the Circus of Emperor Domitian and dominates the Piazza Navona since 1649 as the magnificent pinnacle of Gian Lorenzo Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers.
Provenance: Library of the last Prince-Bishop of Basel Franz Xaver von Neveu (1749 - 1828); after his death it became private property of the family of Neveu, Durbach.

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hammer price: 2000,- EUR
(starting price: 1200,- EUR)