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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 19.–20.11.2021
Schultze, Bernard
1915 Schneidemühl - 2005 Cologne.
Flying Migof.
Free-hanging sculpture from wire, textiles, plastic mass and oil. Signed below and dated (19)69.
H 67,
In the 1940s, Bernard Schultze began to free himself from the conventions of painting. He then quickly advanced to become one of the most important representatives of German Informel, which was decisively influenced by the «Quadriga» artists' group co-founded by him and K.O. Götz, among others. Bernard Schultze's sculptural works, the so-called «Migof», illustrate a central principle of his work, that of letting oneself drift without following a concrete design. Association and chance determine the final form of the works. The Migofs are fluid beings that are in a constant state of metamorphosis.
We would like to thank Dr. Barbara Herrmann, author of the catalogue raisonné, Cologne, for the kind remarks via
Provenance: Galerie Handschin, Basel; private collection Europe; Sotheby's, Paris, auction PF1825, 07.06.2018, lot 192; since then private collection Frankfurt a.M.
Catalogue raisonné: not mentioned by Diederich/Herrmann.
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