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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Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
3485 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Laible, Otto 1898 Haslach im Kinzigtal - 1962 ebd. «Blumenstrauß (bouquet of flowers)». Oil on canvas. Signed upper left and ... | ||||
3486 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Laible, Otto 1898 Haslach im Kinzigtal - 1962 ebd. «Paar im Café (couple in the cafe)». Watercolour over pencil on laid paper. ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
4378 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Laible, Otto 1898 Haslach im Kinzigtal - 1962 Karlsruhe. At the funfair. Oil on canvas. Unsigned. Verso estate stamp on the ... | ||||
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4478 (Spring Auctions Laible, Otto 1898 Haslach im Kinzigtal - 1962 Karlsruhe. Still life with stein and vegetables. Oil on cardboard. Signed lower ... | starting price: 1000,- EUR | |||
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4504 (Autumn Auctions Laible, Otto 1898 Haslach im Kinzigtal - 1962 Karlsruhe. Black Forest landscape with woodshed. Oil on canvas, mounted on panel. ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
5522 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Laible, Otto 1898 Haslach im Kinzigtal - 1962 Karlsruhe. In front of the garden wall. Oil on canvas, mounted on cardboard. ... | ||||
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2930 (Autumn Auctions Laible, Otto 1898 Haslach im Kinzigtal - 1962 Karlsruhe. Mogilev in Belarus. Watercolour on paper. Signed, inscribed «Mogliev» ... | starting price: 200,- EUR | |||
2931 (Autumn Auctions Laible, Otto 1898 Haslach im Kinzigtal - 1962 Karlsruhe. Palatinate village. Watercolour and pencil with opaque white on paper. ... | ||||
2932 (Autumn Auctions Laible, Otto 1898 Haslach im Kinzigtal - 1962 Karlsruhe. Stone quarry in the Palatinate. Mixed media on paper. Signed lower ... | starting price: 300,- EUR | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 1809 (Spring Auctions Laible, Otto 1898 Haslach im Kinzigtal - 1962 Karlsruhe. E Lady in green suit. Pencil drawing with watercolour on paper. Signed ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1810 (Spring Auctions Laible, Otto 1898 Haslach im Kinzigtal - 1962 Karlsruhe. E At Montmartre. Pencil drawing with watercolour. Signed lower left. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1811 (Spring Auctions Laible, Otto 1898 Haslach im Kinzigtal - 1962 Karlsruhe. E Girl with green dress. Oil on canvas. Unsigned, verso estate stamp ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1812 (Spring Auctions Laible, Otto 1898 Haslach im Kinzigtal - 1962 Karlsruhe. E Palatinate train station. Oil on canvas, mounted on panel. Unsigned. ... | |||
Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2178 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Laible, Otto 1898 Haslach im Kinzigtal - 1962 Karlsruhe. Öl/Lw., auf Karton aufgezogen. «Blumenstrauß». Vor braunem Hintergrund ... | |||
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2463 (Autumn Sale Laible, Otto 1898 Haslach im Kinzigtal - 1962 Karlsruhe. Aquarell. Schwarzwaldhof mit Brennhäusle im Kinzigtal, im Vordergrund ... | starting price: 500,- EUR |
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