Ivo Hauptmann - Artist Info

About Ivo Hauptmann

  • Biography

    Ivo Hauptmann was born on September 2, 1886 in Erkner in Berlin and died on September 28, 1973 in Hamburg. Hauptmann was a German landscape and portrait painter, etcher and the son of the poet Gerhart Hauptmann. His first artistic impressions by the old masters began in 1903 in Dresden. In the same year, on his first trip to Paris, he met with Signac and the students of the "Académie Julian".

    In 1903-04 he was the student of Lovis Corinth in Berlin. From 1904-09 he studied at the Art Academy in Weimar under Hans Olde, was a student of Ludwig von Hofmann, and also formed a friendship with Hans Arp, Henry van der Velde and Edvard Munch. It was also his first Sylt stay.

    In 1906 he made acquaintanc...

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