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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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Tournier, Jean Ulrich
1802 Illzach - 1882 Mühlhausen.
Still life with grapes and sparrows in front of a wall niche. Oil on canvas, relined. Signed lower right and dated 1824. Verso on the stretcher inscribed on a gallery label with the artist's life data and titled. Restored.
The still life painter Jean Ulrich Tournier, highly esteemed during his lifetime and today wrongly fallen into oblivion, executed this beautiful work with masterly precision at the age of only 22 years. Although he quotes motifs of the Dutch still life paintings of the 16th and 17th Century, without however referring to their original iconographical context, and composes them under clear decorative aspects into an ensemble of irresistible beauty. This is reflected clearly in the painter's pleasure of characterising different surface appearances, when he is comparing the skilfully painted light downy skin of the peaches with the smooth, partially dusted glossiness of the depicted grapes.
Provenance: Kunsthaus Bühler, Stuttgart; private collection France.
1802 Illzach - 1882 Mühlhausen.
Traubenstillleben in einer Mauernische mit Spatzen. Öl auf Leinwand, doubliert. U.r. sign. und 1824 dat. Verso auf dem Keilrahmen ein Galerieetikett, bez. mit den Lebensdaten des Künstlers und bet. Altrest.
Der zu Lebzeiten hoch geschätzte und heute zu Unrecht weitgehend in Vergessenheit geratene Stilllebenmaler Jean Ulrich Tournier schuf dieses mit meisterlicher Präzision ausgeführte Werk im Alter von nur 22 Jahren. Dabei zitiert er Bildelemente der niederländischen Stilllebenmalerei des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts, ohne jedoch auf ihren ursprünglichen ikonographischen Zusammenhang Bezug zu nehmen, und komponiert sie unter rein dekorativen Gesichtspunkten zu einem Ensemble von bestechender Schönheit. Besonders deutlich ist die Freude des Malers an der Charakterisierung unterschiedlicher Oberflächen erkennbar. So wird die malerisch äußerst gekonnte Darstellung der leicht flaumigen Haut der Pfirsiche dem glatten, teilweise bestäubten Glanz der Trauben gegenübergestellt.
Provenienz: Kunsthaus Bühler, Stuttgart; Privatsammlung Frankreich.