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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2077 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Böhler, Karl 1911 Strittberg/St. Blasien - (?). Snow-covered fir trees in a Black Forest valley. Oil on cardboard. Signed lower ... | ||||
2078 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Böhler, Karl 1911 Strittberg/St. Blasien - (?). Snow-covered fir trees in the High Black Forest. Oil on cardboard. Signed lower ... | ||||
2085 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Dischler, Hermann 1866 «Blick in die Berge (view of the mountains)». Zwerisberg. St. ... | ||||
2086 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Dischler, Hermann 1866 «Vorfrühling im Schwarzwald (Black Forest in early spring)». ... | ||||
2087 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Dischler, Hermann 1866 «Wintermorgen im Schwarzwaldtal (winter morning in a Black ... | ||||
2097 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Wintertag in Ettersbach. Schwarzwald (winter's day at ... | ||||
2098 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Farm houses at Kinzigtal valley in the evening. Oil on canvas. ... | ||||
2099 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Im kleinen Wiesental (at the small Wiesental valley)». Oil on ... | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2133 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Reiss, Fritz 1857 Düsseldorf - 1915 Kirchzarten. Black Forest house on a summer's day. Oil on canvas. Signed lower ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 3029 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Schönberger, Armand 1885 Galgóc - 1974 Budapest. «Cabaret». Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. Verso auction note. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3092 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Mutter, Heinrich 1924 Säckingen - 1999 «Winter am Rhein (winter on the Rhine)». Acrylic on masonite. ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2127 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Lehmann, Kurt 1905 Koblenz - 2000 Hannover. «Der Wächter (the guardian)». 1955. Dark patinated bronze, on a wooden base. Verso ... | |||
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4420 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Strübe, Adolf 1881 Maulburg - 1973 Schopfheim. «Der Laternen-Anzünder Wetzel (the lantern lighter Wetzel)». Oil on masonite. ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2191 (Autumn Auctions Zeitgenössischer Künstler Contemporary artist second half | |||
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