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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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Hundertwasser, Friedensreich
1928 Vienna - 2000 on the Queen Elizabeth II off New Zealand.
«10002 nights Homo Humus come va how do you do».
1984. Colour photolithograph and colour serigraph with metal embossing on light cardboard from FA 5 Fabriano 50% Cotton (watermark). Signed «dunkelbunt» lower right, numbered «1492»/10001 (10002) and with the copyright symbol. Dated «Venezia gennaio 1984» lower middle. Titled on the stone lower left, inscribed several times and with the work number «860» as well as colour key and colour marking points middle left. With the publisher's and printer's dry stamps lower left as well as two red Japanese inkan stamps. Verso according to the catalogue raisonné typographically inscribed with the description of the printing process and the colour variations.
H 64,
H 67,
Unique work from an edition of 10.002 different colour variations. Published by Die Galerie, Offenbach a.M. Printed by Quattrofoglio, as well as Claudio and Giuseppe Barbato, Spinea-Venice coordinated by Alberto della Vecchia.
The photolithograph was printed in four colours, the serigraph in seven colours and the metal embossing in ten colours always in different configurations. «The idea of producing 10.000 different variants, i.e. only one of each colour composition, fascinated the artist. It was like a fulfilment of his wishful thinking about graphics, to create as many sheets as possible as unique works and to bring them to as many people as possible.» from: Koschatzky 83, p. 194.
Provenance: private collection Dreiländereck.
Catalogue raisonné: Fürst HWG 83; Koschatzky 83.
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