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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Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012 Furniture | ||||
4426 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Empire-Tisch Empire table. France circa 1800. Mahogany and fruitwoods. Good condition. Provenance: formerly private collection ... | ||||
4430 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Empire-Halbschrank Empire cupboard. France circa 1800. Mahogany and ebony. Good restored condition. Provenance: formerly private ... | ||||
4431 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Satz von vier Salonstühlen Set of four chairs. Hamburg or Berlin circa 1815 - 1830. Mahogany. Good restored condition. Provenance: formerly ... | ||||
4433 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Qualitätvolles Empire-Sofa High quality Empire sofa. Circle of Karl Friedrich Schinkel circa 1815. Mahogany. Very good restored condition. ... | ||||
4443 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Kleines Schränkchen Small cupboard. Probably Marocco. Carved wood. Good original condition. Provenance: formerly private collection ... | starting price: 400,- EUR | |||
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4451 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Kashmir Srinagar Kashmir Srinagar. India mid 20th C. Cotton. Good age-related condition. Verbal expert report, estimate 300 €. ... | ||||
4459 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Birjand Birjand. Persia mid 20th C. Cotton and wool. Good age-related condition. Verbal expert report, estimate 600 €. ... | ||||
4464 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Kashmir Srinagar Kashmir Srinagar. India mid 20th C. Cotton. Good age-related condition. Verbal expert report, estimate 450 €. ... | ||||
4465 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Sarough Sarough. Persia mid 20th C. Cotton and wool. Good age-related condition. Verbal expert report, estimate 600 €. ... | ||||
4468 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Senneh Senneh. Persia mid 20th C. Cotton and wool. Good age-related condition, bleached. Verbal expert report, estimate 600 ... | starting price: 200,- EUR | |||
4480 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Kayseri Kayseri. Turkey mid 20th C. Cotton. Good age-related condition. Verbal expert report, estimate 450 €. Provenance: ... | ||||
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4500 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Villanis, Emmanuel 1858 Lille - 1914 Paris. E Bust of a young lady. Patinated bronze. Inscribed «EV195», signed verso. Provenance: ... | ||||
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4581 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Biedermeierminiaturmaler Biedermeier miniature painter circa 1830. Portrait of a lady. Tempera on ivory. Verso inscribed and dated 1837. Small ... | ||||
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4639 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Burlin, Natalie Curtis 1875 (?) - 1921 Paris. E French coastal scene. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. Provenance: formerly private ... | starting price: 600,- EUR | |||
4718 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Raimund, V. Landscape painter 19th C. At the mountain lake. Oil on canvas. Signed lower left. Provenance: formerly private ... | starting price: 600,- EUR | |||
4721 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Romantiker Romantic painter 19th C. Landscape with lake. Oil on canvas, relined. Unsigned. Minor retouching. Provenance: formerly ... | ||||
4730 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Stanley, Cyril English landscape painter 19th C. Shell picker. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated 1880 lower right. Minor retouching. ... | starting price: 500,- EUR | |||
4743 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Zwei Landschaften Two landscapes. 19th C. Oil on canvas respectively oil on panel. One indistinctly signed lower right and one unsigned. ... | ||||
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4777 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Münchner Schule Munich school 19th C. Three landscapes. Watercolour on paper. One signed «T. Faber» and dated 1853 lower left, two ... | ||||
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1344 (Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010) Konvolut Netsuke Japan | ||||
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1692 (Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010) Monnoyer, Jean-Baptiste 1634 Lille - 1699 London. Prächtiges Blumenstillleben. Öl/Lw., doubl. In gebauchter Vase Blumenstrauß mit ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 1788 (Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010) Fischer, Carl Holger 1885 (?) - 1955 (?). Stillleben mit Rosen. Öl/Lw. In gebauchter Glasvase üppiges Bukett mit roten Rosen. U.r. sign. ... | |||
1916 (Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010) Paix, Josef de la 1852 (?) - (?). Mittelalterliches Städtchen am Fluss. Öl/Lw. Ein mit Figurenstaffagen belebter Weg zu einem auf ... | ||||
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1387 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Zierteller China | ||||
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1408 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Der Kormoranfischer Japan | ||||
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2315 (Autumn Auctions 26.–28.11.2009) Rebourgeon, L. Marinemaler 19./ Öl/Lw. Lagune. Vor einer Hafenszenerie auf einem Steg ein Fischer, seine Netze ... | ||||
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