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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2224 (Winter Sale Vedutenmaler Gouache. Vulkanausbruch. Lava speiender Vulkan in von Qualm verhüllter Landschaft. Im ... | starting price: 300,- EUR | |||
2228 (Winter Sale Vettiger, E. Vedutenmaler Öl/Lw. Straßenszene mit in Trachten gekleideter Figurenstaffage. Im Hintergrund ... | starting price: 80,- EUR | |||
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1691 (Autumn Sale Vedutenmaler 18./ Lavierte Tuschezeichnung. Blick auf mittelalterliche Stadt an breitem Flusslauf. Links im ... | starting price: 400,- EUR | |||
1978 (Autumn Sale Montullo Vedutenmaler 19./ Gouache. Blick auf die Bucht von Neapel mit dem rauchenden Vesuv im ... | ||||
2055 (Autumn Sale Siegen, August Um 1850 - (?). Öl/Holz. Ansicht des historischen Marktplatzes von Siena mit dem Torre del Mangia und reicher ... | ||||
2091 (Autumn Sale Vedutenmaler 19./ Öl/Lw. Gotisches Gewändeportal mit Holztüre, im Vordergrund mit Bruchsteinen befestigter ... | ||||
2092 (Autumn Sale Vedutenmaler Aquarell. Blick entlang einer von Häusern flankierten Straße auf Gebirgskette. Auf der Straße ... | ||||
2093 (Autumn Sale Vedutenmaler Drei Aquarelle. Ansichten von Venedig, darunter ein Blick auf die Seufzerbrücke. U.l. bzw. r. ... | starting price: 100,- EUR | |||
2094 (Autumn Sale Vedutenmaler Öl/Holz. Blick über die Donau auf Sigmaringen und das Schloss Hohenzollern. U.l. schlecht ... | ||||
2095 (Autumn Sale Vedutenmaler Mitte Öl/Hartfaser. Tief verschneiter dörflicher Winkel in schneeverhangener Abendstimmung. ... | ||||
2096 (Autumn Sale Vedutenmaler Gouache. Ansicht von Venedig mit Blick auf Santa Maria della Salute und reicher ... | ||||
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2141 (Spring Sale Monogrammist H.V. Vedutenmaler 2. Hälfte Öl/Lw./Holz. Ansicht des "Hotel Russischer Hof" in Weimar. Im ... | ||||
2172 (Spring Sale Petersen, F. Vedutenmaler 19./ Öl/Holz. Blick entlang der Spree über Brücke hinweg auf den Berliner Dom. ... | ||||
2219 (Spring Sale Schmidt, E.A. Vedutenmaler Öl/Lw. Rialtobrücke in Venedig. U.r. sign. Oberflächenverschmutzung. H. 91, ... | ||||
2274 (Spring Sale Vedutenmaler Öl/Holz. Blick über die Donau auf Sigmaringen und das Schloss Hohenzollern. U.l. schlecht ... | starting price: 500,- EUR | |||
2275 (Spring Sale Vedutenmaler Öl/Holz. Wohn- und Lagerhäuser an einem Kanal mit Rundbogenbrücke. Im Mittelgrund reiche ... | starting price: 300,- EUR | |||
2276 (Spring Sale Vedutenmaler Gouache. Blick auf südliche Stadt am Meer mit parkähnlicher Uferpromenade und reicher ... | ||||
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2253 (Winter Sale Vedutenmaler 19./ Öl/Malkarton. Blick auf Neuchâtel mit seinem Schloss und der darin eingegliederten ... | ||||
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2495 (Winter Sale Jacque Vedutenmaler 1. Hälfte Öl/Lw. Blick über die Elbe auf Dresden mit Frauenkirche, Hof | starting price: 10,- EUR | |||
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2483 (Autumn Sale Lawe, W. Vedutenmaler Mitte Aquarell. "Eßlingen "Altes Rathaus" 16.Jh.". U.l. bet. sowie u.r. sign. und ... | starting price: 200,- EUR | |||
2532 (Autumn Sale Monogrammist W.H.G. Vedutenmaler 19./ Öl/Holz. Blick auf das vieltürmige Schloss Bürresheim. U.r. monogr. | ||||
2559 (Autumn Sale Petersen, F. Vedutenmaler 19./ Öl/Holz. Blick entlang der Spree, über Brücke hinweg auf den Berliner Dom. ... | starting price: 300,- EUR | |||
2607 (Autumn Sale Schafer, H. Vedutenmaler Ende Öl/Lw. Pittoresker Blick auf Freiburg mit Marktfrauen im Vordergrund und dem ... | starting price: 2400,- EUR | |||
2689 (Autumn Sale Vedutenmaler 19./ Öl/Holz. Blick auf die Piazza vor Sankt Peter in Rom. Unsign. Kl. Farbabsplitterungen. ... | ||||
2690 (Autumn Sale Vedutenmaler 19./ Öl/Lw. Blick über die Lagune von Venedig mit zahlreichen Gondeln und Segelschiffen. ... | ||||
2691 (Autumn Sale Vedutenmaler 19./ Öl/Lw. Blick auf von Hügeln umgebene Bucht, im Vordergrund am Ufer spielende Kinder und ... |
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