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 Auction 14.–16.05.2009 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
1505 (Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009) May, K. Deutscher Stilllebenmaler Öl/Lw. Früchtestillleben. Auf neutralem Fond Arrangement aus Birnen, ... | starting price: 400,- EUR | |||
1585 (Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009) Sixt, Johann Deutscher Stilllebenmaler Gouache/Papier. Blumenstillleben. In einem Korb eine Vielzahl ... | starting price: 1800,- EUR | |||
1597 (Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009) Stilllebenmaler Öl/Lw. Tafelstillleben. Auf einem Tisch zwischen Kirschen, Brot, einer Pastete, Pastinaken und ... | ||||
1608 (Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009) Toulon, Martine Adriane Marie van 1792 (?) - 1880 (?). Öl/Lw. Blumenstillleben. Auf steinernem Sockel reiches Bukett verschiedener Blumen und Früchte ... | starting price: 2000,- EUR | |||
1616 (Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009) Vukovic, K. Stilllebenmaler Öl/Lw. Blumenstillleben. Auf weißem Tischtuch prachtvoller Herbstblumenstrauß, ... | starting price: 300,- EUR | |||
Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1691 (Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009) Eberstadt, (?) Stilllebenmaler 1. Hälfte Öl/Lw. Blumenstillleben. Vor farbig bewegtem Hintergrund in einer ... | starting price: 3500,- EUR | ||
Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008 Paintings and Drawings 15th to 18th Century | ||||
1809 (Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008) Holländischer Stilllebenmaler 18./ Öl/Lw. Stillleben. Unter einem Baum vor Landschaftshintergrund prachtvolles Stillleben mit ... | ||||
Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
1873 (Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008) Deutscher Stilllebenmaler Mitte Öl/Lw. Stillleben. Zwei schwarze Kannen auf einem Tisch mit Äpfeln. Unsign. H. 50,5, ... | ||||
1874 (Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008) Deutscher Stilllebenmaler Mitte Öl/Hartfaser. Blumenstillleben. In einer Messingvase ein Mohnblumenstrauß. U.r. ... | starting price: 1800,- EUR | |||
2101 (Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008) Toulon, Martine Adriane Marie van 1792 (?) - 1880 (?). Öl/Lw. Blumenstillleben. Auf steinernem Sockel reiches Bukett verschiedener Blumen und Früchte ... | starting price: 4000,- EUR | |||
Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2199 (Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008) Stilllebenmaler Mitte Öl/Karton. «Herbst». Auf einer Tafel mit Früchten zwei üppige Blumensträuße. U.l. und ... | |||
Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008 Paintings and Drawings 15th to 18th Century | ||||
1453 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Stilllebenmaler 18./ Öl/Lw. Jagdstillleben mit an einem Ast hängenden Feldhasen. Unsign. Krakelee und rest. ... | starting price: 600,- EUR | |||
1517 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Fries, Emmanuel 1778 Mulhouse - 1850 ebd. Öl/Lw. Vor weiter Landschaft auf einem Felsen am Fuße eines Baumes liegende weiße und ... | ||||
1518 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Fries, Emmanuel 1778 Mulhouse - 1850 ebd. Öl/Lw. Vor Landschaft in antikisierter Marmorvase auf Plinthe mit Figurenrelief üppiger ... | ||||
1607 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Monogrammist C.T.B. Stilllebenmaler Öl/Lw., doubl. Früchtestillleben. Auf einer Tischplatte verschiedene Früchte ... | starting price: 1700,- EUR | |||
1629 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Pál, B. Stilllebenmaler Öl/Holz. Auf Marmorplatte in Kugelvase üppiger Strauß mit verschiedenfarbigem ... | ||||
1673 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Stilllebenmaler 19./ Aquarell/Karton. Stillleben mit Henkelkrug und Pfirsichen. U.l. wohl «R. Ducracy» sign. ... | ||||
Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008 Modern Painting | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1700 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Balwé, Arnold attr. 1898 Dresden - 1983 Feldwies. Öl/Lw. Hafenansicht in impressionistischem Duktus mit Figurenstaffage am Kai und sich ... | starting price: 7000,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1737 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Hanfstaengl Stilllebenmaler Öl/Lw. Reiches Blumenstillleben in gebauchtem Glaskrug vor dunklem Fond, ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1769 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Moderner Stilllebenmaler Um 1920. Öl/Lw. Vor dunklem Fond in Kugelvase üppiger Wiesenblumenstrauß. U.l. unleserlich sign. und 1928 dat. ... | starting price: 600,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1776 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Peters, Udo 1884 Hannover - 1964 Worpswede. Öl/Lw./Holz. Sommerliche Landschaft mit Sandhügeln am Waldrand. U.l. sign. | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1781 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Ranken, William Bruce Ellis 1881 Edinburgh - 1941 Reading. Gouache. Vor Tapete mit farbenfrohem Chinoiseriedekor stehender junger Mann in ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1782 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Ranken, William Bruce Ellis 1881 Edinburgh - 1941 Reading. Aquarell, partiell weiß gehöht. Halbfigurenbildnis eines jungen ... | |||
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1678 (Autumn Auction Hirschmann, Joh. Bamberger Stilllebenmaler 18./ Öl/Lw., doubl. Jagdstillleben in Trompe-l'œuil-Technik. Vor ... | ||||
1679 (Autumn Auction Hirschmann, Joh. Bamberger Stilllebenmaler 18./ Öl/Lw., doubl. Jagdstillleben in Trompe-l'œuil-Technik. Vor ... | ||||
1717 (Autumn Auction Stilllebenmaler 18./ Öl/Holz. Auf einem Holztisch in einem Weidenkorb üppiges Blumenstillleben mit Dahlien und ... | ||||
1718 (Autumn Auction Stilllebenmaler Ende Öl/Lw. Vanitas-Stillleben mit verschiedenen auf einer Marmorplatte arrangierten Objekten. ... | ||||
1753 (Autumn Auction Benedict, (?) Stilllebenmaler Öl/Lw. Auf einer Fensterbank in einem Korb herbstliches Früchtestillleben mit ... | starting price: 500,- EUR | |||
1758 (Autumn Auction Bettner, J. (?) Stilllebenmaler Öl/Lw. Vor rotem Vorhang auf weißer Tischdecke eine Korbflasche und ein Korb ... | ||||
1778 (Autumn Auction Courbière, A. von Stilllebenmaler 19./ Öl/Lw. Früchtestillleben. Neben einem Steinzeugkrug mit stilisiertem ... | starting price: 800,- EUR |
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