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 24.11–25.11.2023 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3217 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Ungerer, Tomi (Jean-Thomas) 1931 Strasbourg - 2019 Cork. «Chat mangeant une glace à la souris». Colour offset on strong Arches 88 paper ... | |||
Spring Auctions | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2209 (Spring Auctions Ungerer, Tomi Geb. 1931 Straßburg, lebt und arbeitet in Straßburg und Irland. Face in profile. Screen print in colours on smooth ... | starting price: 400,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2210 (Spring Auctions Ungerer, Tomi Geb. 1931 Straßburg, lebt und arbeitet in Straßburg und Irland. «Badefreuden (bathing pleasures)». Screen print in ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2211 (Spring Auctions Ungerer, Tomi Geb. 1931 Straßburg, lebt und arbeitet in Straßburg und Irland. Untitled. Screen print on wove paper. Signed lower ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2212 (Spring Auctions Ungerer, Tomi Geb. 1931 Straßburg, lebt und arbeitet in Straßburg und Irland. «See white, hear white, speak white». Black crayon ... | starting price: 4000,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2213 (Spring Auctions Ungerer, Tomi Geb. 1931 Straßburg, lebt und arbeitet in Straßburg und Irland. «Cerf-volant rose sur soleil noir». India ink and ... | starting price: 4000,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2214 (Spring Auctions Ungerer, Tomi Geb. 1931 Straßburg, lebt und arbeitet in Straßburg und Irland. «Both sides now». India ink and black crayon on ... | starting price: 4000,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2215 (Spring Auctions Ungerer, Tomi «Erotoscope» With a preface by Michel Houellebecq. Printed by Taschen Verlag, Köln, London, Madrid, New York, Paris and Tokyo 2001. ... | starting price: 600,- EUR | ||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2269 (Autumn Auctions Ungerer, Tomi Geb. 1931 Straßburg. Couple with babies. Lithograph. On the stone signed lower left. Numbered 74/100 lower left and ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2287 (Autumn Auctions Konvolut Graphiken Collection of graphics. 16 pieces. Paul Wunderlich, «Guten Morgen (good morning)»; Friedrich Meckseper, «Drei Kugeln ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2290 (Autumn Auctions Mappenwerk «Kinderstern» Portfolio «Kinderstern (children star)». Published by Michael Domberger, Filderstadt 1989. Original map with two ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2523 (Winter Sale Ungerer, Tomi Geb. 1931 Straßburg. Acht Offsetdrucke in Mappe. Verschiedene Motive, darunter Tanzendes Paar, Duett von Katze und ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2399 (Autumn Sale Ungerer, Tomi Geb. 1931 Straßburg. Acht Farboffsetdrucke in Mappe. Verschiedene Motive, darunter Tanzendes Paar, Duett von Katze ... |
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