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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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Geb. 1935 Gabrovo, lebt und arbeitet in New York.
«Wrapped Trees, Project for the Fondation Beyeler and Berower Park, Riehen, Switzerland». Collage in two items, made from pencil, charcoal, pastel, crayon, topographic map, fabric sample, twine and tape, each in an acrylic object frame. The upper part of the work signed lower right and dated 1998, as well as titled below. Verso each signed again, dated 1998, as well as with the artist's copyright symbol. Furthermore a draft and a handwritten hanging instruction for both parts, numbered «9A» respectively «9B» and each with a label of Gallery Beyeler Basel, numbered «13748» and wearing the technical data of the artwork.
The present work belongs to a series of similar unique creations, drawn up within the framework of a project set up by Ernst Beyeler in 1996/97. During the construction of the building for the Fondation Beyeler located inside the Berower Park in Riehen near Basel he remembered a never realised project by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, in which the trees along the Champs-Élysées in Paris should be wrapped. The park near Basel with his old stock of trees suited perfectly for the practical implementation of this idea, and in 1997 the artist couple travelled from New York to Basel for the first inspection of the area. First 80 trees have been selected on the base of their size as suitable for the artwork. They have been measured, numbered and transferred into a map, which can be seen in the upper part of the installation. Later, even while work was proceeding, the number of trees has been increased up to 162 and finally up to 178 pieces due to aesthetic reasons. To be sure that each fabric cover would really fit the intended tree, paper scale models of all trees have been built and covered as a trial. On 12th of November 1998 the work with the real trees started, during which more than 55.000 square metres of woven polyester fabric have been used for wrapping.
Provenance: Gallery Beyeler, Basel; since then private collection Switzerland.
Literature: Taschen Verlag (Ed.), Christo and Jeanne-Claude - Wrapped trees Fondation Beyeler and Berower Park, Riehen, Basel, Switzerland
This auction item is subject to 7 % statutory import duties added to the net price (hammer price + premium). These import duties do not apply if the auction item is returned to Switzerland following the auction's closing.
Geb. 1935 Gabrovo, lebt und arbeitet in New York.
«Wrapped Trees, Project for the Fondation Beyeler and Berower Park, Riehen, Switzerland». Zweiteilige Collage, bestehend aus Bleistift, Kohle, Pastellkreide, Farbkreide, Landkarte, Stoff, Zwirn und Klebeband, in zwei Objektrahmen aus Kunststoff. Der obere Teil der Arbeit u.r. sign. und 1998 dat. sowie u. bet. Jeweils verso nochmals sign., 1998 dat. sowie mit dem Copyright-Zeichen des Künstlers versehen. Des Weiteren eine Skizze und die handschriftliche Anweisung zur Hängung der beiden Einzelteile, «9A» bzw. «9B» num. und je ein Etikett der Galerie Beyeler Basel, darauf «13748» num. sowie mit den technischen Angaben zum Werk versehen.
H. 31,2,
Die hier präsentierte Arbeit reiht sich ein in eine Serie ähnlicher Unikate, entstanden im Rahmen eines Projektes, welches 1996/97 von Ernst Beyeler ins Leben gerufen wurde. Während der Errichtung des Gebäudes der Fondation Beyeler im Berower Park in Riehen bei Basel erinnerte er sich an ein nicht realisiertes Projekt von Christo und Jeanne-Claude, bei welchem die Bäume der Champs-Élysées in Paris verhüllt werden sollten. Der Park nahe Basel eignete sich mit seinem alten Baumbestand bestens für die Umsetzung dieser Idee, und so reiste das Künstlerpaar 1997 erstmals für eine Begehung des Areals von New York nach Basel. Insgesamt 80 Bäume wurden vorerst aufgrund ihrer Größe als geeignet für das Kunstwerk bewertet, vermessen, nummeriert und exakt in eine Landkarte des Gebietes übertragen. Ein Teil dieser Landkarte ist im oberen Teil der hier zum Aufruf kommenden Arbeit zu sehen. Später wurde die Anzahl der Bäume aus ästhetischen Gründen auf 162, und im weiteren Verlauf der Arbeiten auf die endgültige Anzahl von 178 erhöht. Um zu gewährleisten, dass jede Hülle perfekt zum dazu vorgesehenen Baum passt, wurden maßstabsgetreue Modelle der einzelnen Bäume angefertigt und zur Probe verhüllt. Am 12. November 1998 begannen die Arbeiten an den realen Bäumen, bei denen insgesamt 55.000 m² graues Polyestergewebe verwendet wurden.
Provenienz: Galerie Beyeler, Basel; seitdem Privatsammlung Schweiz.
Literatur: Taschen Verlag (Hrsg.), Christo and Jeanne-Claude - Wrapped Trees Fondation Beyeler and Berower Park, Riehen, Basel, Switzerland
Für dieses Objekt wird zusätzlich die gesetzliche Einfuhr-Umsatzsteuer von 7 % auf den Nettopreis (Zuschlagspreis + Aufgeld) hinzugerechnet. Wird das Objekt nach dem Zuschlag wieder in die Schweiz gebracht, entfällt die Einfuhr-Umsatzsteuer.