Karl Hauptmann - Within the forest
Karl Hauptmann
Within the forest
Oil on canvas. 70 x 90.5 cm.
Signed and dated lower left: K. Hauptmann Feldbrg. 29.
The earliest dated forest landscapes of this kind date from 1928. This painting, dated 1929 is an example of this classic type of forest landscape in the oeuvre of the ‘Black Forest painter’ Karl Hauptmann, a subject he would continue to explore well into the 1940s.
Provenance
In third generation private collection, Southern Germany.
Literature
Cf. H.-D. Meier / R. Dickel (eds.): Karl Hauptmann 1880-1947, Der Schwarzwaldmaler, Freiburg i. Br. 2007, p. 101, ill. 65, no. 61
Karl Hauptmann
Within the forest
Oil on canvas. 70 x 90.5 cm.
Signed and dated lower left: K. Hauptmann Feldbrg. 29.
The earliest dated forest landscapes of this kind date from 1928. This painting, dated 1929 is an example of this classic type of forest landscape in the oeuvre of the ‘Black Forest painter’ Karl Hauptmann, a subject he would continue to explore well into the 1940s.
Provenance
In third generation private collection, Southern Germany.
Literature
Cf. H.-D. Meier / R. Dickel (eds.): Karl Hauptmann 1880-1947, Der Schwarzwaldmaler, Freiburg i. Br. 2007, p. 101, ill. 65, no. 61
