Karl Herrmann Haupt (1904 - 1983)
Self Portrait 3 (Selbstbildnis 3)
Gouache and oil on a thin card. Signed and dated HAUPT24 at the lower left centre. Inscribed Bauhaus-Student Weimar 1924. / Selstbildnis 3 (farbige Fassung) / Mischtechnik auf Karton / Die Positiv-Negativ Wirkung, (1. u. 2 Fassung) / werden durch die Farbe aufgelöst. / Die Schwarz-Weiss Fassungen, (1. u. 2.) / ähneln eher einem Fotonegativ. / K. H. Haupt. Halle. a. d. S. / 1924. on a typewritten label pasted onto the reverse. A stamp with the coat of arms of the city of Weimar pasted onto the reverse.678 x 478 mm. (26 5/8 x 18 3/4 in.)
ENQUIREThis large and impressive sheet is an early self-portrait by Karl Hermann Haupt, executed in 1924 while he was a student at the Bauhaus in Weimar. The artist’s typewritten label on the reverse may be translated as: ‘Bauhaus student Weimar in 1924 / Self Portrait 3 (colour version) / mixed media on card / The positive-negative effect, (1st & 2nd versions) / be resolved by the colour. / The black and white versions, (1st & 2nd) / look more like a photo negative. / K. H. Haupt. Halle a. d. S. / 1924.’ Another student drawing by Haupt of the same year, a Construction for an Equilibrium Study drawn in pencil on tracing paper, is in the collection of the Bauhaus Archive at the Museum für Gestaltung in Berlin.