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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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Kirchenmaler
Church painter South Germany 18th C. Portrait of a prince-abbot. Oil on canvas, relined. Unsigned, verso inscribed. Minor retouching, pigment loss, restored. Unframed.
Süddeutsch 18. Jh.
Porträt eines Prälaten. Öl/Lw., doubl. Ein an einem Tisch stehender Fürstabt in hermelingefüttertem Umhang, um den Hals ein diamantbesetztes Kreuz tragend. An der rechten Hand einen großen Diamantring sowie in der linken ein Buch haltend. Im Hintergrund seine Mitra auriphrygiata. Unsign. Verso bez. Kl. Retuschen, min. Farbabsplitterungen, altrest. H. 82, B. 63 cm. Ungerahmt.
Verso auf dem Keilrahmen befindet sich folgende Information: «Dieses Porträt, angeblich den verstorbenen Prälaten MARTIN GERBERT, der 1806 aufgehobenen gefürsteten Abtei St. BLASIEN auf dem Schwarzwalde im Grossherzogthum BADEN vorstellend, wurde vom hiesigen Vergolder Berdoner im September des Jahres restauriert. Wr. Neustadt, am 16. September 1859. Joh. Kindler».