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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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Herbstauktionen 19.–20.10.2018
Hundertwasser, Friedensreich
1928 Wien - 2000 auf See vor Australien.
«Sad not so sad is rainshine from rainday on a rainy day». Serigraph in colours with metal embossing on strong Fabriano wove paper (watermark). Signed lower middle, dated «Venezia 1968», numbered 99/250 and with the work number «680» as well as with two Japanese inkan stamps. Inscribed with the colour variation «A2» lower right and typographically inscribed with the description of the printing process. With five colour control points as well as with the publisher's and the printer's embossed stamps lower left. Signed again lower middle in the print, dated «Venezia 1968» and with the work number «680». Verso remnants of mounting.
H 74, W 56 cm (sheet).
One of 139 sheets from the first state with ten colours and two metal embossings, released in six different colour variations. Example of the colour variation A2 green red. Published by University Art Museum, Berkeley, California. Printed at Galleria L'Elefante, Venice.
Provenance: private collection Baden Baden.
Catalogue raisonné: Fürst HWG 
1928 Wien - 2000 auf See vor Australien.
«Sad not so sad is rainshine from rainday on a rainy day». Farbserigraphie mit Metallprägungen auf festem Velin von Fabriano (Wasserzeichen). Mitte u. sign., «Venezia 1968» dat., 99/250 num. und mit der Werknr. «680» sowie zwei japanischen Inkan-Stempeln versehen. U.r. bez. mit der Farbvariante «A2» und typographisch mit der Beschreibung des Druckprozesses. U.l. mit fünf Farbkontrollpunkten sowie mit den Prägestempeln des Druckers und des Verlegers versehen. Mitte u. im Druck nochmals sign., «Venezia 1968» dat., sowie mit der Werknr. «680» versehen. Verso Montierungsreste.
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Eines von 139 Blättern des ersten Zustands mit zehn Farben und zwei Metallprägungen, erschienen in sechs verschiedenen Farbvarianten. Exemplar der Farbvariante A2 Grün Rot. Herausgegeben vom University Art Museum, Berkeley, Kalifornien. Gedruckt bei Galleria L'Elefante, Venedig.
Provenienz: Privatsammlung Baden-Baden.
Werkverzeichnis: Fürst HWG