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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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Außergewöhnlich kunstvoll gestalteter apulischer Fischteller
Exceptionally masterful elaborated Apulian red-figure fish-plate with the depiction of various fishes, a cuttlefish, a jellyfish, as well as sea snails and scallops. 4th C. BC. Pottery, painted black, white and yellow. Signs of age.
Fish-plates are forming a special category within the red-figure painted antique plates. Motifs were always taken from the marine world, like fishes and other sea creatures, mainly in masterfully naturalistic executions. Actually about 1000 examples of these beautiful plates are known, produced in various workshops. Typical for the Apulian works are the centered dents, always decorated by painting. Furthermore the bellies of the fishes are always aligned towards the centre of the plate, while the examples of the Attic school are depicted with the bellies towards the edges.
Provenance: purchased in the 1960s at Römisch-Germanisches Museum, Cologne; since then private collection Dr. Dr. Albert Gilles, Cologne, and succession.
4. Jh. v. Chr. Heller Scherben, schwarz, weiß und gelb bemalt. Teller mit überhängendem, leicht konvexen Rand und hohem, profilierten Fuß. Rotfigurig, Details in Weiß und Gelb. Dekor aus verschiedenen Fischen, einem Tintenfisch, einer Meduse sowie zahlreichen Muscheln und Schnecken. Altersspuren.
H. 4,5,
Fischteller sind eine Sonderform der antiken, im rotfigurigen Stil bemalten Teller. Motive sind stets Fische oder anderes Meeresgetier, meist in äußerst naturalistischer Ausführung. Zurzeit sind etwa 1000 Exemplare dieser besonders schönen Teller bekannt, die in unterschiedlichen Werkstätten produziert wurden. Typisch für die apulischen Arbeiten sind die mittigen Vertiefungen, die im Gegensatz zu den Werken anderer Regionen stets mit Malerei verziert wurden. Zudem weisen die Bäuche der Fische stets zur Tellermitte, während die der attischen Schulen mit den Bäuchen zum Rand dargestellt wurden.
Provenienz: erworben in den 1960er Jahren im Römisch-Germanischen Museum, Köln; seitdem Privatsammlung Dr. Dr. Albert Gilles, Köln, und Nachfolge.