Carl Spitzweg
5th February 1808 – 23th September 1885
Carl Spitzweg was born on 5th of February in 1808 in Unterpfaffenhofen, Bavaria. Although trained as a chemist, he discovered quite early his talent for drawing and his affinity with art. Spitzweg travelled extensively during his lifetime and the impressions formed by his travels greatly influenced his work. Shortly after completing his studies in pharmaceutics in 1832, he visited Italy. It was particularly in the cities of Florence, Rome, and Naples that he discovered the many significant works of Western culture which were to leave a permanent imprint on him.
A severe case of dysentery in 1833 strengthened his resolve to abandon his career as a chemist and he proceeded to commit himself solely to his painting. In June 1835, he became a member of the Munich Art Association and travelled that same year to southern Tirol with the landscape painter Eduard Schleich, the Elder.
In 1839 he completed his first painting entitled ''The Poor Poet'. Although this recurring motif would later be considered his most well-known body of work, the painting was not accepted at this time by the jury of the Munich Art Association.
As regards his graphic production, the first publication in 1844 of his own illustrations in the Munich weekly paper 'Fliegende Blätter' is considered quite significant. His visits to the Industrial Exposition in Paris and the World's Fair exhibition in London in 1851 were his first contact with the Oriental scenes which would begin to inform his work.
To the deserving painter were bestowed numerous honours during the second half of Spitzweg's lifetime: in 1865 the Bavarian Royal Merit Order of St. Michael was conferred upon him, and in 1875 he was named an honorary member of the Academy of Fine Arts.
Carl Spitzweg died on 23th of September in 1885 and was entombed in the historic South Cemetery in Munich.
He leaves behind a body of work dedicated to the townspeople who inhibit his genre scenes, and with acute and pointed, but never ill-natured humour he portrays the everday bourgeois life of his time.
Lit: Siegfried Wichmann, Carl Spitzweg. Verzeichnis der Werke, Gemälde und Aquarelle, Stuttgart: Belser, 2002.
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Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
3241 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Kibiger, Julius 1903 Feldberg - 1983 Müllheim. Spielweg in the Münstertal. Oil on structured cardboard. Signed lower right and ... | ||||
3242 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Kibiger, Julius 1903 Feldberg - 1983 Müllheim. Late autumn in the Black Forest. Broad valley view with windswept beech tree. Oil ... | ||||
Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
3296 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Kibiger, Julius 1903 Feldberg - 1983 Müllheim. Old waterbody of the Rhine near Neuenburg. Oil on masonite. Signed lower left. ... | ||||
3297 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Kibiger, Julius 1903 Feldberg - 1983 Müllheim. The Rhine between Bamlach and Bad Bellingen. Oil on canvas. Signed lower ... | ||||
3298 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Kibiger, Julius 1903 Feldberg - 1983 Müllheim. View of the castle of Badenweiler. Oil on masonite. Signed lower right. Small ... | ||||
Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
3217 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Kibiger, Julius 1903 Feldberg - 1983 Müllheim. View from the Niederweiler Rebhüsli to the fortress of Badenweiler. Oil on ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
3478 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Kibiger, Julius 1903 Feldberg - 1983 Müllheim. View of the Blauen. Circa 1940. Oil on panel. Signed lower left. H 46, W 56 ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
3282 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Kibiger, Julius 1903 Feldberg - 1983 Müllheim. Black Forest houses in a summer landscape. Oil on structured cardboard. Signed lower ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
4375 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Kibiger, Julius 1903 Feldberg - 1983 Müllheim. View of the valley called Bärental. Oil on masonite. Signed lower right. Verso ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions | ||||
4378 (Autumn Auctions Kibiger, Julius 1903 Feldberg - 1983 Müllheim. «Wetterstamm auf der Hochalm (weather trunk at the alpine pasture)». Gouache on ... | ||||
4379 (Autumn Auctions Kibiger, Julius 1903 Feldberg - 1983 Müllheim. Markgräflerland with view over the Alps. Watercolour over pencil on strong ... | ||||
4380 (Autumn Auctions Kibiger, Julius 1903 Feldberg - 1983 Müllheim. Larkspur. Oil on masonite. Signed lower right. DDDD1903 Feldberg - 1983 ... | ||||
4381 (Autumn Auctions Kibiger, Julius 1903 Feldberg - 1983 Müllheim. «Linde auf dem Luginsland (lime tree at the Luginsland)». Watercolour over pencil on ... | ||||
4382 (Autumn Auctions Kibiger, Julius 1903 Feldberg - 1983 Müllheim. «Schwarzwaldhöfe im Wolftal (Black Forest houses at Wolftal)». Oil on structured ... | ||||
4383 (Autumn Auctions Kibiger, Julius 1903 Feldberg - 1983 Müllheim. View over a mountain landscape at Markgräflerland. Oil on masonite. Signed lower ... | ||||
Spring Auctions | ||||
4452 (Spring Auctions Kibiger, Julius 1903 Feldberg - 1983 Müllheim. «Altrhein». Oil on masonite. Signed lower right. DDDD1903 Feldberg - 1983 ... | starting price: 800,- EUR | |||
4453 (Spring Auctions Kibiger, Julius 1903 Feldberg - 1983 Müllheim. Landscape in the High Black Forest. Watercolour on ribbed (Vergé) Ingres paper ... | starting price: 400,- EUR | |||
4454 (Spring Auctions Kibiger, Julius 1903 Feldberg - 1983 Müllheim. View of Staufen. Watercolour on wove paper. Signed lower left. Trimmed along the ... | starting price: 600,- EUR | |||
4455 (Spring Auctions Kibiger, Julius 1903 Feldberg - 1983 Müllheim. Small cottage in the vineyard near Niederweiler with view of the mountain, called ... | ||||
4456 (Spring Auctions Kibiger, Julius 1903 Feldberg - 1983 Müllheim. Vineyards with view of the mountain «Der Blauen». India ink pen drawing on wove ... | ||||
4457 (Spring Auctions Kibiger, Julius 1903 Feldberg - 1983 Müllheim. View of the mountain, called «Der Blauen». Oil on masonite. Signed lower ... | starting price: 800,- EUR | |||
4458 (Spring Auctions Kibiger, Julius 1903 Feldberg - 1983 Müllheim. The church in Betberg. Oil on masonite. Signed lower right. DDDD1903 Feldberg - ... | ||||
4459 (Spring Auctions Kibiger, Julius 1903 Feldberg - 1983 Müllheim. «Rötteln». Oil on masonite. Signed lower right. Verso inscribed on a label with the ... | starting price: 600,- EUR | |||
4460 (Spring Auctions Kibiger, Julius 1903 Feldberg - 1983 Müllheim. Geranium. Oil on panel. Signed lower right. DDDD1903 Feldberg - 1983 ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions | ||||
4502 (Autumn Auctions Kibiger, Julius 1903 Feldberg - 1983 Müllheim. «Münstertal». Oil on masonite. Signed lower left. Verso inscribed and titled in ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
5514 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Kibiger, Julius 1903 Feldberg - 1983 Müllheim. Late autumn. Oil on masonite. Signed lower right. DDDD1903 Feldberg - 1983 ... | ||||
5515 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Kibiger, Julius 1903 Feldberg - 1983 Müllheim. Rhine landscape near Bamlach and Bad Bellingen. Oil on masonite. Signed and dated ... | ||||
Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
4680 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Kibiger, Julius 1903 Feldberg - 1983 Müllheim. E Foggy autumn landscape with vineyard. Oil on masonite. Signed lower ... | starting price: 900,- EUR | |||
4681 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Kibiger, Julius 1903 Feldberg - 1983 Müllheim. E Obereggenen. Oil on masonite. Signed lower right. DDDD1903 Feldberg - 1983 ... | ||||
4682 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Kibiger, Julius 1903 Feldberg - 1983 Müllheim. E Auggen. Oil on masonite. Signed lower right. DDDD1903 Feldberg - 1983 ... | starting price: 900,- EUR |
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