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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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Joachim von Sandrart
Der Teutschen Academie Zweyter und letzter Haupt-Theil / Von Der Edlen Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey-Künste [...]. Carel van Mander, P. Ovidii Nas. Metamorphosis, Oder: Des verblümten Sinns der Ovidianischen Wandlungs-Gedichte gründliche Auslegung [...]. Lebenslauf und Kunst-Werke Des WolEdlen und Gestrengen Herrn Joachims von Sandrart [...]. Three works in one vol. Nuremberg and Frankfurt a.M., Christian Sigismund Froberger and Johann-Philipp Miltenberger,
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Imaginative ingenious details such as an initial containing the elevation of the Roman Pantheon (first part, p. 3), spirited quotations from antiquity, such as the Artemis of Ephesus on the title of the second part, or prestigious, subtly atmospheric full-page illustrations of antique statues have made this work an erudite, aesthetically sophisticated pleasure and an exuberant feast for art-loving eyes for generations. The painter and engraver Joachim von Sandrart (1606 - 1688) published the «Teutsche Academie», the first encyclopaedic treatise on art theory in the German language. It contains remarks on ancient architecture and sculpture, vitae of important ancient and modern artists, a translation of Karel van Mander's text on Ovid's Metamorphoses and a detailed biography of the author himself. Decorated in a detailed and ingenious manner with numerous initials, vignettes and copperplate engravings of various sizes, this sumptuous volume is a visually powerful masterpiece and early testimony to German-language art historiography.
Provenance: Library of the last Prince-Bishop of Basel Franz Xaver von Neveu (1749 - 1828); after his death it became private property of the family of Neveu, Durbach.
Literature: VD17 1:080147T; VD17 1:072040Q; VD17 3:608230L.
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