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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3120 (Autumn Auctions Große Bronzepfeife für den Kaiserhof Large bronze pipe for Imperial Court. Cameroon Western Highlands. Dark patinated bronze. Verso on a label inventory ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2017 (Spring Auctions Corinth, Lovis 1858 Tapiau - 1925 Zandvoort. «St. Georg». 1916. Etching on wove paper. Unsigned. Typographically inscribed away ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2028 (Spring Auctions Liebermann, Max 1847 Berlin - 1935 ebd. «Selbstbildnis des Siebzigjährigen, zeichnend, I. (self portrait at the age of 70, drawing, ... | starting price: 200,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2060 (Spring Auctions Bogart, Bram 1921 Delft - 2012 Sint-Truiden. Composition. Screen print in colours on cardboard, structured in mixed media with ... | starting price: 600,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2063 (Spring Auctions Bruni, Bruno Geb. 1935 Gradara, lebt und arbeitet in Hannover. Bronze candelabra, produced in the lost-wax casting technique, ... | starting price: 450,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2064 (Spring Auctions Bruni, Bruno Geb. 1935 Gradara, lebt und arbeitet in Hannover. Bronze candelabra, produced in the lost-wax casting technique, ... | starting price: 450,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2097 (Spring Auctions Grieshaber, HAP «Totentanz von Basel mit den Dialogen des mittelalterlichen Wandbildes» Published by VEB Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1966. Printed by Leipziger Presse, Leipzig 1966. Texts in German, English ... | starting price: 600,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2142 (Spring Auctions Laves, Werner 1903 Berlin - 1972 ebd. «Blick auf die Grunewaldstraße (view of Grunewaldstraße)». Oil on canvas. Signed lower ... | starting price: 1500,- EUR | ||
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4014 (Spring Auctions Kindergruppe Group of children. Model circa 1909 by Otto Thiem for Schwarzburger Werkstätten. White glazed porcelain. Signed to ... | ||||
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4095 (Spring Auctions Lauernde Schnee-Eule Snowy owl lying in wait. Porzellanfabrik L. Hutschenreuther Abteilung für Kunst, Selb circa 1930. Porcelain, painted ... | ||||
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4366 (Spring Auctions Rubens, Peter Paul nach After Peter Paul Rubens probably | ||||
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4557 (Spring Auctions Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. «Der Fahnenträger (the standard bearer)». Oil on strong wove paper, mounted on ... | starting price: 10000,- EUR | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2178 (Autumn Auctions Junker, Roland Geb. 1950 Bern. «Werbung ist Kunst (advertising is art)». 1996. Acrylic on paper. Signed upper left. Verso on label ... | starting price: 2500,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2202 (Autumn Auctions Matschinsky-Denninghoff, Brigitte 1923 Berlin - 2011 ebd. «Sequenzen (sequences)», from «Horizont (horizon)». 2003. Wood lacquer and charcoal on ... | starting price: 5000,- EUR | ||
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3295 (Autumn Auctions Reliquienfigur «Bwete» der MaHongwe/Kota Reliquary figure «Bwete» from the MaHongwe/Kota tribe. Gabun probably mid | starting price: 4800,- EUR | |||
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4372 (Autumn Auctions Gekrönte Gottesmutter Umilenie Mother of God Umilenie. Russia | ||||
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4434 (Autumn Auctions Steen, Jan 1626 Leiden - 1679 ebd. Peasants scene. Oil on canvas, relined. Signed lower right. Verso on canvas inscribed «Jan ... | ||||
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3072 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Auktionskatalog Fischer Catalogue of auction 60 of gallery Fischer, Lucerne, 30. June 1939. «Gemälde und Plastiken Moderner Meister aus ... | ||||
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5512 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Kaufmann, Wilhelm 1895 Wien - 1975 ebd. Flower still life. Oil on masonite. Signed lower right. Certificate: Mag. Elke Königseder, ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2213 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Hüppi, Alfonso Born 1935 Freiburg i.Br. E For Felix. Wooden box and five wine bottles. Box signed in pencil. Wine bottles with ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2290 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Ruhnau, Werner Born 1922 Königsberg. E «Klimatisierung des Raumes - Zur Erinnerung an die Zusammenarbeit mit Yves Klein in ... | starting price: 1000,- EUR | ||
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4745 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Eeckhout, Gerbrand van den attr. 1621 Amsterdam - 1674 ebd. E Oriental horseman. Ink on paper. Collectors initials «J.C.R.» lower left. Minor traces ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 1070 (Autumn Auctions Manship, Paul Howard attr. 1885 St. Paul - 1966 New York. Head of an Antilope. Patinated bronze. Signed and dated 1930 on the base. One horne ... | starting price: 3500,- EUR |
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