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 | ||||
3229 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 «Blick ins große Kappeler Tal Frühling (view of the great ... | starting price: 900,- EUR | |||
3245 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Koester, Alexander 1864 Neustadt - 1932 Munich. Coffee break. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. H 78, | ||||
3247 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Liebich, Curt 1868 Wesel - 1937 Gutach. «s'Zwicke in Herrenbach». Black Forest farm in Gutach with young farmer women. Oil on ... | ||||
3250 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Nocken, Wilhelm Theodor 1830 Düsseldorf - 1905 ibid. Fisherman at the Achensee. Oil on canvas. Signed lower left. H 84, | ||||
3266 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Stetten, Norbert von 1885 Vienna - 1979 Bad Mergentheim. Still life with poppies, daisies and cyclamen in a clay jug. Oil on ... | ||||
3267 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) ten Cate, Hendrik Gerrit 1803 Amsterdam - 1856 ibid. Ice skaters at a village church. Oil on panel, partly cradled. Signed lower left. ... | starting price: 2000,- EUR | |||
3271 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Weysser, Karl 1833 Durlach - 1904 Heidelberg. Angled courtyard facade in Ediger with idyllic wall vegetation and Romanesque ... | ||||
Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022 Old Prints | ||||
3273 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Ring, Maximilian von 1799 Bonn - 1873 Bischheim. «Freiburg (von der Ostseite) (Freiburg from the east)». Handcoloured lithograph on ... | ||||
Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021 Jewellery | ||||
1030 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Pair of bicolour earrings with diamond pave Burkhardt + Bischoff, Keltern 21st C. Red and white gold 14k. Posts each with three movable, curved, marquise-shaped ... | ||||
1031 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Bicolour pendant with diamond pave on chain Burkhardt + Bischoff, Keltern (pendant) and Germany 21st C. Red and white gold 14k (pendant) and white gold 8k ... | ||||
1123 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Lapponia Ring «Quebec» with zoisite and diamond Designed by Björn Weckström for Lapponia, Helsinki 1976. Yellow and white gold 18k. Wide, organically shaped, matted ... | ||||
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1236 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Guerresi, Maïmouna (Patrizia) Born Pove del Grappa 1951, lives and works in Dakar. 1990s. Eau de parfum «Aphrodite» from «Les beaux arts», ... | ||||
1237 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Guerresi, Maïmouna (Patrizia) Born Pove del Grappa 1951, lives and works in Dakar. 1990s. Eau de toilette «Paris» from «Les beaux arts», Edition ... | ||||
Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021 Wrist Watches | ||||
1260 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Chopard chronograph gents' wristwatch «Mille Miglia '98» Geneva 1998. Yellow gold 18k. Smooth, round case with glass back. Dark blue dial with Arabic minute scale and ... | ||||
Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2008 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Christiansen, Olaf 1901 Darmstadt - 1990 Olbia. Portrait Herta Christiansen, sister of the artist. Oil on cardboard, mounted on ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2009 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Cocteau, Jean 1892 Maisons-Laffitte - 1963 Milly-la-Forêt. «Etrurie». Pottery, with brown and black slipware painting. Signed ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2010 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Cocteau, Jean 1892 Maisons-Laffitte - 1963 Milly-la-Forêt. «Orphée et Eurydice». Pottery with brown as well as black oxide ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2012 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Cueni, August 1883 Zwingen - 1966 ibid. Portrait of a small boy in a blue shirt. Oil over pencil on canvas. Signed lower left ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2017 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Dreyer-Tamura, Friedrich 1899 - 1975, active in Berlin. Railway bridge in Berlin. Oil on canvas, mounted on cardboard. Signed lower right ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2022 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Grosz, George 1893 Berlin - 1959 ibid. «Verlobung (engagement)» from «Ecce Homo». 1922/23. Offset lithograph on wove paper. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2030 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Itten, Johannes 1888 Wachseldorn - 1967 Zürich. «Kreise und Quadrate (circles and squares)». Oil, tempera and India ink on ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2035 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Kokoschka, Oskar 1886 Pöchlarn - 1980 Montreux. Chestnut branch. Watercolour on strong chamois wove paper. Signed lower left and ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2052 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Méheut, Mathurin 1882 Lamballe - 1958 Paris. Breton mussel collectors at dawn. After 1920. Oil on panel. Monogrammed lower ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2059 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Picasso, Pablo 1881 Málaga - 1973 Mougins. «Eros». Reclining female nude with voyeur. Blue ink on paper. Signed upper middle, ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2062 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Schindler, Theodor 1870 Malsch - 1950 ibid. Surreal still life. Red tulips, pumpkins and vases. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2069 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Spiro, Eugen (Eugene) 1874 Breslau - 1972 New York «Stillleben mit Sonnenblumen (still life with sunflowers)». Oil on canvas. Signed ... | starting price: 2000,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2070 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Spiro, Eugen (Eugene) school 1874 Breslau - 1972 New York. Portrait Eugene Spiro. The artist, smoking a cigar, in front of one of his landscape ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2074 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Willingstorfer, Rainer 1940 Ruhla - 1989 Zirndorf. Obscure dice game. Encounter of two men at a gloomy table with a pewter jug. Oil on ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2075 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Abdelfattah, Hassan Born 1938 El Mahalla El Kubra, lives and works in Cairo. Sunny, palm-fringed square in Luxor. Acrylic on canvas. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2078 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Baechler, Donald Born 1956 Hartford, lives and works in New York. «After Picabia». Collage from paper and India ink on paper. ... |
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