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 20.–21.11.2020 Paintings and Drawings 15th to 18th Century | ||||
3224 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Bamboccianti painter Rome mid Family at the well. Oil on canvas, relined. Unsigned. Surface soiling, white ... | ||||
3227 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Papi, Cristofano di called Cristofano dell'Altissimo studio Active in Florence between 1552 and 1605. Emperor Frederick II in armour. Oil on canvas, relined. Unsigned. ... | ||||
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3229 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Roth, Johann Gabriel Active in the area of Lake Constance between 1718 and 1729. Two counterparts. Gentleman with a gold-trimmed vest. ... | ||||
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3241 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Bizer, Emil 1881 Pforzheim - 1957 Badenweiler. View of the Vosges. Oil on canvas. Monogrammed lower left. Verso on the ... | ||||
3242 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Buott, Cyrus 1868 - 1946, active in England. River landscape with boat. Oil on canvas. Signed lower left and badly legible ... | starting price: 400,- EUR | |||
3267 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Hartmann, Joseph Adam 1812 Lütter/Rhön - 1885 Darmstadt. Two counterparts. Gentleman with upturned collar. Lady with sapphire ... | ||||
3271 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Snow-covered Black Forest farm in the evening sun. Oil on ... | ||||
3291 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Hermanns, Heinrich 1862 Düsseldorf - 1942 ibid. «An der Fontäne der Villa Aldobrandini (Frascati) (at the fountain of the Villa ... | ||||
3292 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Huber, Léon (Charles) 1858 Paris - 1928 ibid. Fruit still life with cracked fig. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. White shrinking ... | ||||
3302 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Kochanowski, Roman Kazimierz 1856 Krakow - 1945 Freising. Rural life. Oil on panel. Signed lower right. Verso on a label signed again and ... | ||||
3307 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Mali, Christian Friedrich 1832 Broekhuizen - 1906 Munich. Shepherd at the foot of the Alps. Oil on panel. Signed lower left, dated 1893 ... | ||||
3311 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Müller-Kaempff, Paul 1861 Oldenburg - 1941 Berlin. «Ein Sommertag in Norddeutschland (a summer day in northern Germany)». Circa 1915. ... | ||||
3312 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Ohlsson, Karl Enock 1889 Malmö - 1958 ibid. A lively day in Lübeck harbour. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. White shrinking ... | ||||
3313 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Paier, Edward Theodore 1918 (?) - 2010 (?). «Partie aus St. Pölten Nied[er] Oesterr[eich] (landscape near St. Pölten Lower ... | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3314 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Peiser, Kurt 1887 Antwerp - 1962 Uccle. «Lundi perdu». Drunkards in the tavern. Oil on canvas. Signed lower left. Verso ... | |||
3315 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Pippel, Otto Eduard 1878 Lódz - 1960 Planegg. «Das Matterhorn (the Matterhorn)». View of the east and north faces of the ... | ||||
3316 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Progel, Otto 1815 - 1887, probably active in Germany. Horses with foals on a pasture. Oil on canvas. Signed lower left. White ... | starting price: 400,- EUR | |||
3331 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Wegener, Carl Gustav 1812 Prignitz - 1887 Potsdam. Fishermen hauling in the nets. Oil on canvas, relined. Signed lower left and dated ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2020 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) (Hiller-)Foell, Maria 1880 Odessa - 1943 Stuttgart. «Blumen (flowers)». A bunch of summer flowers with apple. Oil on canvas. Signed ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2028 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Marcks, Gerhard 1889 Berlin - 1981 Burgbrohl. «Kranichschwarm (flock of cranes)». 1957. Woodcut on Japon. Signed lower right and ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2029a (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Maschkow, Ilja Iwanowitsch 1881 Mikhailovskaya-on-Don - 1944 Abramzewo. «Nude model with roses». Circa 1909. Oil on canvas. Signed upper ... | starting price: 120000,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2044 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Topp, Arnold 1887 Soest - 1945 missing. «Der Raub des Rolands (the Robbery of Roland)». Gouache on cardboard. Signed lower ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2052 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Berner, Bernd 1930 Hamburg - 2002 Stuttgart. «Flächenraum Violett 147 (area room violet 147)». Oil on canvas. Verso signed and ... | starting price: 1600,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2064 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Dienst, Rolf-Gunter 1942 Kiel - 2016 Baden-Baden. «o.T. (untitled)». 1000 good wishes in blue. Watercolour on Fabriano laid paper ... |
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