1886 Erkner – 1973 Hamburg
„Flower still life“, 1964
38 x 46,5 cm
Watercolour on paper
Fine Art, Up to 5,000 €
Galerie Paffrath
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Watercolour painting has always played a special role in the life’s work of the 87-year-old artist Ivo Hauptmann. Although his watercolours were mostly created in front of nature, they were never just sketches or nature studies, but independent and pictorial. This is because Hauptmann’s watercolour technique differs from virtuoso fluid watercolour painting in that it features firmly drawn outlines as the supporting framework for the colour values.
It is above all in his watercolours that Hauptmann deals with various types of landscape. Harbour motifs and depictions of the beach on the North Sea and Baltic Sea as well as cityscapes are frequently found in his oeuvre as a whole.
Ivo Hauptmann, son of the poet Gerhart Hauptmann, studied briefly in Paris at the “Académie Julian” in 1903. Although he only stayed in Paris for a short time, his stay had a lasting influence on Hauptmann, not least through his acquaintance with some of the most important artists of the French avant-garde: Maillol, Vuillard, Bonnard and Maurice Denis. Hauptmann returned to Germany in 1904 and became a student of Lovis Corinth in Berlin. In 1913, he moved to Hamburg, became a co-founder of the “Hamburg Secession” and settled permanently in the Hanseatic city.
