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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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Klapheck, Konrad
Geb. 1935 Düsseldorf, lebt und arbeitet in Düsseldorf.
«Der Eroberer (the conqueror)». Oil on canvas. Signed verso middle. Verso on the back board dated 1989 on a label by the artist's own hand, inscribed with the signature, titled, with indication of technique and dimensions, as well as exact instructions regarding the handling of the artwork. Above inscribed on a label of the art shipping company Hasenkamp with the exhibition title, date and place, as well as information of the work. Artist's frame.
According to the kind information provided by the artist the depicted shoe is an image of an original shoe worn by the former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, exhibited in a shoe museum. The present work is an excellent example for the characteristic painting style by Konrad Klapheck, combining aspects of Neo-Realism, Surrealism and Pop Art into an often monumental object painting. The depicted subjects of everyday life, for example typewriters, sewing machines, water taps, telephones, flat irons and particularly shoes and shoe trees, are presented with maximum precision and an exciting technical accuracy. In combination with the titles of the works, like «Die Gewalt der Dinge (the force of things)», «Das Orakel (the oracle)» or like in this case «Der Eroberer (the conqueror)», they are losing their object characters and are thereby becoming performers and surrealistic persons.
Photo certificate: photo of the work, signed by the artist, enclosed a letter with details about the present artwork, Düsseldorf, 19.04.2014.
Provenance: Gallery Lelong, Paris; since then private property
Exhibition: Die verlassenen Schuhe, Bonn, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, 1993/94, 
Geb. 1935 Düsseldorf, lebt und arbeitet in Düsseldorf.
«Der Eroberer». Öl auf Leinwand. Verso Mitte sign. Verso auf der Rückwand auf einem eigenhändigen Etikett des Künstlers 1989 dat., bez. mit dem Namenszug, bet., mit Angabe der Technik und der Maße sowie genauen Anweisungen bezüglich der Handhabung des Werkes. Darüber auf einem Etikett der Kunstspedition Hasenkamp bez. mit dem Ausstellungstitel, Datum und Ort sowie den Angaben zum Werk.
Laut der freundlichen Auskunft des Künstlers handelt es sich um das Abbild eines Schuhs des ehemaligen italienischen Diktators Benito Mussolini, welcher als Ausstellungsstück in einem Schuhmuseum präsentiert wurde. Das hier zum Aufruf kommende Gemälde steht geradezu beispielhaft für den charakteristischen Malstil Konrad Klaphecks, welcher Merkmale des Neo-Realismus, Surrealismus und der Pop Art zu einer oft monumentalen Objektmalerei vereint. Die dargestellten und oft alltäglichen Gegenstände, wie beispielsweise Schreibmaschinen, Nähmaschinen, Wasserhähne, Telefone, Bügeleisen und eben auch Schuhe oder Schuhspanner, sind in einer faszinierenden Detailgenauigkeit und technischen Exaktheit porträtiert und werden in Kombination mit den einprägsamen Titeln der Werke, beispielsweise «Die Gewalt der Dinge», «Das Orakel» oder in diesem Falle «Der Eroberer», zu Darstellern und surrealistischen Personen.
Photo-Zertifikat: vom Künstler signierte Photographie des Werkes und beiliegender Brief mit Angaben zum Kunstwerk, Düsseldorf, 19.04.2014.
Provenienz: Galerie Lelong, Paris; seitdem Privatbesitz
Ausstellung: Die verlassenen Schuhe, Bonn, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, 1993/94,