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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Image under artist's copyright. | 1829 (Spring Auctions Schneller, Albert 1892 Jechtingen - 1970 Gr¸nwettersbach. E Gr¸nwettersbach at evening. Oil on cardboard. Scratched signed and dated ... | |||
Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2158 (Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010) Riedlin, Adolf 1892 Laufen - 1969 Freiburg i.Br. Porträt von August Kayser. Öl/Lw. Alter bärtiger Mann mit weißem, gelocktem Bart, ... | |||
Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2126 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Chilovskaïa, Tamara 1916 Petrograd - 2000 St. Petersburg. Tempera/Papier. Expressionistische Figur. Vor Hintergrund in starkfarbigen ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2131 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Eisler, Georg 1928 Wien - 1998 ebd. Aquarell. Im Vergnügungslokal. In expressionistischer Manier Darstellung zahlreicher Köpfe ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2208 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Peschka, Anton Emanuel 1885 Wien - 1940 ebd. Aquarell. Am Strand. Eine sitzende und eine stehende unbekleidete Frau, dahinter Segler auf ... | |||
Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010 Modern Prints | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2344 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Konvolut Graphiken | |||
Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009 Modern Prints | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1910 (Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009) Pechstein, Hermann Max 1881 Zwickau - 1955 Berlin. Lithographie. «Italienerinnen». Vor einer Tür drei Frauen mit Kindern, sich ... | starting price: 150,- EUR | ||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2185 (Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008) Pechstein, Hermann Max 1881 Zwickau - 1955 Berlin. Aquarell, Gouache und Tusche. «Strandfischer am Rettungshaus». Unter durch Gewölk ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2186 (Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008) Pechstein, Hermann Max 1881 Zwickau - 1955 Berlin. Aquarell, Gouache und Tusche. «Landschaft um blaue Wand». Inmitten lichter Vegetation ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2187 (Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008) Pechstein, Hermann Max 1881 Zwickau - 1955 Berlin. Aquarell, Gouache und Tusche. «Die rote Hutschleife». Ganzfigurenbild einer in ... | |||
Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008 Modern Painting | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1729 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Feger, Eugen Ludwig 1902 Basel - 1969 Lörrach. Öl/Karton. «Leuchtender Abend». In expressionistischem Duktus gearbeiteter Straßenzug ... | starting price: 700,- EUR | ||
Autumn Auction | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2085 (Autumn Auction Baumberger, Otto 1889 Zürich-Altstetten - 1961 Zürich-Weiningen. Öl/Lw. «Einzug». Einzug des auf einem Esel reitenden Jesus am ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2123 (Autumn Auction Fekete, Esteban Geb. 1924. Lebt in Darmstadt. Öl/Lw. Siesta mit Katze. Halbfigurenbildnis einer sitzenden Dame in ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2150 (Spring Sale Cürten, Ferdinand Carl 1897 Düsseldorf - 1945 ebd. Öl/Karton. Auf den Stufen des Petersdoms. In expressionistischem Duktus ausgeführte ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2156 (Spring Sale Expressionist Lavierte Bleistift- und Tuschfederzeichnung. Skizzenhaftes Brustbildnis einer sich die Hände ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2199 (Spring Sale Sandkamm-Möller, Peter 1893 Schauby/Alsen - 1981 Augustenborg. Öl/Lw. In expressivem Duktus gefertigter Blick auf eine Waldlichtung mit ... | starting price: 1000,- EUR | ||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2552 (Autumn Sale Ernest-Kosmowski, Edmund 1900 Warschau - 1985 Honfleur. Öl/Lw. Expressionistische Darstellung der Rückenfigur eines am Strand stehenden ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2553 (Autumn Sale Expressionist Öl. Zwei weibliche Akte, einer stehend und einer auf allen Vieren kniend. Farbabsplitterungen ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2589 (Autumn Sale Nauen, Heinrich 1880 Krefeld - 1940 Kalkar. Öl/Lw. Waldweg. In expressiven Farben gemalter, lichtbeschienener, von schlanken Bäumen ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2591 (Autumn Sale Norddeutscher Expressionist Öl/Lw. «Mühle in Emden». Neben blühenden Bäumen und Büschen imposante Windmühle. ... | |||
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1901 (Spring Sale Wolff, Gustav Heinrich 1886 Barmen - 1934 Berlin. Ziegelroter Scherben, glasiert und bemalt. Marokkanerin. Auf Natursockel, stehender ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2401 (Spring Sale Schmidt-Rottluff, Karl 1884 Rottluff - 1976 Berlin. Holzschnitt. «Kopf eines Mannes». Expressionistisches Porträt im Dreiviertelprofil ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2402 (Spring Sale Schüler, Wilhelm Kölner Künstler 1. Hälfte Linolschnitt. «Hexensabbath». In expressionistischem Duktus Szene ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2320 (Winter Sale Pleuer, Hermann 1863 Schwäbisch-Gmünd - 1911 Stuttgart. Öl/Hartfaser. «Geisinger Rang des Neckar im Hintergrund der Wunnenstein». ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2323 (Winter Sale Purrmann - zurückgezogen, Hans Öl/Lw. Interieurszene mit Blumenstillleben aus zwei rosafarbenen und einer weißen Anthurie in einer weißen Vase ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2159 (Autumn Sale Expressionist Öl/Karton. Zwei Mädchenakte, einer mit pinkfarbenen Strümpfen vornübergebeugt auf einem Bett ... |
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