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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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Neer, Aert van der
1603/04 Amsterdam - 1677 ebd.
Winter landscape. Oil on canvas, relined. Monogrammed lower right on trunk. Retouching. Expert report: Dr. Fredo Bachmann, Nuremberg, 20.05.1984, in copy. Authentication: We would like to thank Mrs Ellis Dullaart, Assistant Curator, Dpt. Dutch and Flemish Old Master Paintings, Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), Den Haag, for the scientific advice via 
1603/04 Amsterdam - 1677 ebd.
Eisvergnügen. Öl/Lw., doubl. Auf dem Eis zahlreiche Personen Kolf spielend, Schlitten schiebend oder konversierend. Im Mittelgrund ein eingefrorenes Boot, dahinter am jenseitigen Ufer Häuser und Türme einer Stadt. U.r. monogr. auf dem Baumstamm. Retuschen.
Aert van der Neers winterliche Landschaften sind wunderbare Zeugnisse der Blütezeit des Goldenen Zeitalters der Niederlande. «Die Illusion der Raumtiefe, die Lichtverhältnisse des trüben Wintertages und die Abendstimmung sind meisterhaft getroffen (vgl. Bachmann)».
Gutachten: Dr. Fredo Bachmann, Nürnberg, 20.05.1984, in Kopie.
Authentifizierung: Wir danken Frau Ellis Dullaart, Assistant Curator, Dpt. Dutch and Flemish Old Master Paintings, Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), Den Haag, für die wissenschaftliche Beratung via
Provenienz: Sammlung des Kardinal Fesch, Rom (versteigert für 171 Scudi am 17.03.1845, Los 167); Sammlung William Harvey, Leeds; Privatsammlung Niederlande; Sammlung Schultz von Haegen bei Christies, London, 29.03.1968, Los 84; Privatsammlung Nürnberg bei Lempertz, Köln, 27.05.1991, Los 61a; seitdem Privatbesitz Freiburger Industriellenfamilie.
Literatur: C. Hofstede de Groot, Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten Holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts,