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.
Matches: 3/4 back | overview | continue | send e-mail | Survey of the artists
Image under artist's copyright. |
2176
Frühjahrsauktion
Liebermann, Ernst
1869 Langemüß/Meiningen - 1960 München.
Öl/Lw. «Frauenbad». In sommerlicher, in stimmungsvolles Licht getauchter Sommerlandschaft vor idyllischer Gebirgskulisse in einem Kanal und vor mit Schiefer gedecktem Haus badende und sich sonnende junge Frauen. Eine bis zu den Knien im Wasser stehend und die Arme ausbreitend, vier weitere am befestigten Ufer im Licht der Nachmittagssonne ruhend. U.r. sign., bez. «Mchn» und 1925 dat. sowie verso auf Keilrahmen bet.
Schüler der Berliner Akademie.
Lit.: Artdata, Thieme-Becker.