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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
Förg, Günther
1952 Füssen - 2013
«Micha».
1983. Colour photograph on photo paper, verso on aluminium. Unsigned. Verso on a label handwritten inscribed with the archive number.
H 120,
Unique copy. Freshly coloured artist's print from the year 2010.
The painter Günther Förg devoted himself to sculpture and photography in the 1980s. In an interview with the artist and writer David Ryan, he draws a direct connection between his large-format portraits, his sculptures and architectural photography: «The connection is viewing the photograph as almost sculptural relief, the scale gives it an architectural dimension; they are readable as being beyond portrait scale. It's like a close-up, the same with the architecture; in fact I see them both as a kind of architectural photograph... yet they can also be seen in an emotional way, expressionistic even.» Günter Förg in: David Ryan, Talking Painting, London 2002, Link.
We would like to thank Mr Michael Neff, Estate Günther Förg, Frankfurt a.M., for the friendly confirmation of the authenticity of this work, 07.09.2023.
Provenance: purchased directly from the artist; since then private collection Southern Germany.
Literature: Dallas Museum of Art, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Günter Förg, a fragile beauty, New Haven and London 2018, pp. 117 - 123 (cf.).
Archive: The present work is registered at the archive Estate Günther Förg, Frankfurt a.M., under archive
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