Paul Adolf Hauptmann

Paul Adolf Hauptmann (born May 5, 1887 in Bromberg ; † February 9, 1958 in Ergoldsbach ) was a German painter of the Impressionist-Realist direction.

Life

Paul Adolf Hauptmann was born the son of an architect and grandson of a blacksmith. At a young age he came to Berlin, where he studied with honors as a master class student of professors Alexander Kips , Maximilian Schäfer and Henseler at the University of Applied Arts. For many years he worked at the Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin (also KPM - Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin ), during this time numerous studies were carried out on various decorations. He also devoted his free time to art. He was a member and sometimes chairman of numerous well-known artists' associations, directed a number of exhibitions and taught in painting studios in which especially members of the diplomatic corps were his students. He dedicated his life-long work in various techniques to nude, landscape, portrait, animal, flower and decorative painting. Adolf Hitler also became aware of the artist through the Great German Art Exhibition in 1939 in the House of German Art in Munich , who, in addition to Goebbels, also acquired several works by Hauptmann. In 1942 he had to flee Berlin due to bombing and found a new home in Ergoldsbach , Lower Bavaria. He died there on February 9, 1958.

literature

• Robert Thoms: Great German Art Exhibition Munich 1937-1944 . Directory of artists in two volumes, Volume I: painter and graphic artist. Berlin, 2010, ISBN 978-3-937294-01-8

swell

• Vollmer, General Lexicon of the Visual Artists of the 20th Century (unaltered reprint of the original Leipzig 1955 edition), Volume 2, Munich 1992, p. 392.