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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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Wotruba, Fritz
1907 Vienna - 1975 ibid.
«Kleine sitzende Figur (little sitting figure)».
1952/53. Dark patinated bronze. Signed lower right and numbered «923». Inside foundry mark «venturi arte», Bologna, and editor's stamp «euro art», Vienna, as well as a collection label.
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The geometrical abstract sculpture «Kleine sitzende Figur (little sitting figure)» was published by Edition Euro Art, Vienna, and cast by Venturi Arte, Bologna, in an edition of 1000 copies.
Fritz Wotruba is one of the most renowned Austrian sculptors of his time and in the early phase of his work, he reveals the extension of his human representations towards a detachment of forms.
His first solo exhibition in 1931 at the Folkwang Museum in Essen was soon followed by exhibitions at the Kunsthaus Zurich and the Biennale in Venice. After having emigrated to Switzerland he returned to Vienna in 1945 and continued his early success. Prestigious objects can be found above all in urban areas.
Provenance: private collection Frankfurt a.M.
Catalogue raisonné: Breicha/Janett 174/2. 
Wotruba, Fritz
1907 Wien - 1975 ebd.
«Kleine sitzende Figur».
1952/53. Bronze, dunkel patiniert. U.r. sign. und «923» num. Innen Gießerstempel «venturi arte», Bologna, und Stempel des Herausgebers «euro art», Wien, sowie ein Sammlungsetikett.
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Die geometrisch-abstrakte Plastik «Kleine sitzende Figur» wurde in einer Auflage von 1000 Exemplaren bei Edition Euro Art, Wien, verlegt und bei Venturi Arte, Bologna, gegossen.
Fritz Wotruba zählt zu den renommiertesten österreichischen Bildhauern seiner Zeit und lässt bereits in der Frühphase seines Schaffens die deutliche Streckung seiner menschlichen Darstellungen hin zu einer Loslösung der Formen erkennen. Seiner ersten Einzelausstellung 1931 im Essener Folkwang-Museum folgten alsbald Ausstellungen im Kunsthaus Zürich und auf der Biennale in Venedig. Nach seiner Emigration in die Schweiz kehrte er 1945 nach Wien zurück und knüpfte an frühe Erfolge an. Prestigeträchtige Objekte finden sich vor allem im urbanen Raum.
Provenienz: Privatsammlung Frankfurt a.M.
Werkverzeichnis: Breicha/Janett 174/2.