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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Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2046 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Liebermann, Max 1847 Berlin - 1935 ibid. Self-portrait in profile from «Max Liebermann zu Hause (Max Liebermann at home)». 1917. ... | |||
Spring Auctions | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2028 (Spring Auctions Liebermann, Max 1847 Berlin - 1935 ebd. «Selbstbildnis des Siebzigjährigen, zeichnend, I. (self portrait at the age of 70, drawing, ... | starting price: 200,- EUR | ||
Autumn Auctions | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2032 (Autumn Auctions Liebermann, Max 1847 Berlin - 1935 ebd. «Gartenszene (Wärterin, Kind und Hund) (garden scene (nanny, child and dog))». Etching on ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2033 (Autumn Auctions Liebermann, Max 1847 Berlin - 1935 ebd. «Selbstbildnis, zeichnend (self portrait, penciling)». Lithograph on laid paper. Signed ... | |||
Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2041 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Liebermann, Max 1847 Berlin - 1935 ebd. E Fall from the horse. Lithograph. On the stone signed lower right. On the margin signed ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2042 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Liebermann, Max 1847 Berlin - 1935 ebd. E Beach scenery. Lithograph. Signed lower right in pencil. Passepartout. Provenance: ... | |||
Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010 Books and Atlases | ||||
2280 (Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010) Die Kunst des Radierens Ein Handbuch von Hermann Struck. Mit vier Original-Graphiken von Max Liebermann, Marc Chagall, Oskar Kokoschka und ... | ||||
Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2148 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Hofmann, Ludwig von 1861 Darmstadt - 1945 Pillnitz. Öl/Lw. Elysische Landschaft. Auf einem mit Blumen und Bäumen bestandenem Hang am ... | |||
Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1728 (Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009) Liebermann, Max 1847 Berlin - 1935 ebd. Radierung. «Dame im Pelz», 1923. Im Sessel sitzende Frau mit Pelz. Mit Bleistift u.r. III/I ... | |||
Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008 Modern Prints | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1937 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Liebermann, Max 1847 Berlin - 1935 ebd. Druck. Mit Büschen und Gräsern bewachsene Hügellandschaft mit Silhouette eines Wanderers. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1938 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Liebermann, Max 1847 Berlin - 1935 ebd. Radierung. Im Biergarten an zahlreichen Tischen sitzende Menschen, eine Maß Bier trinkend. ... | |||
Autumn Auction | ||||
1932 (Autumn Auction Meid, Hans 1883 Pforzheim - 1957 Ludwigsburg. Mischtechnik. Halbfigurenbildnis von Max Liebermann, sitzend mit Hut. O.r. bez. ... | ||||
Spring Sale | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2374 (Spring Sale Liebermann, Max 1847 Berlin - 1935 ebd. Radierung. Selbstbildnis im Dreiviertelprofil nach rechts, einen Block in den Händen ... | |||
Autumn Sale | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2369 (Autumn Sale Liebermann, Max 1847 Berlin - 1935 ebd. Holzschnitt. «Selbstbildnis vor der Staffelei». Maler im Profil, Palette und Pinsel haltend ... | starting price: 80,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2370 (Autumn Sale Liebermann, Max 1847 Berlin - 1935 ebd. Lithographie. «Die Judenstrasse in Amsterdam». Mit Bleistift u.r. sign. Verso bet., bez. ... | starting price: 2300,- EUR | ||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2109 (Spring Sale Liebermann, Max 1847 Berlin - 1935 ebd. Aquarell. Blick entlang einer Allee. U.l. sign. H. 17, | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2110 (Spring Sale Liebermann, Max 1847 Berlin - 1935 ebd. Kreidezeichnung. Studie eines sitzenden Kleinkindes mit rotbraunem Haar im ... | |||
Spring Sale | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2463 (Spring Sale Liebermann, Max 1847 Berlin - 1935 ebd. Holzschnitt. "Holländische Landschaft". Blick auf Dorfstraße mit Pferdefuhrwerk, im ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2464 (Spring Sale Liebermann, Max 1847 Berlin - 1935 ebd. Holzschnitt. "Judengasse in Amsterdam". Von Menschen dicht bevölkerte Gasse. Wasserzeichen. ... | |||
Autumn Sale | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2938 (Autumn Sale Liebermann, Max 1847 Berlin - 1935 ebd. Lithographie. Von Soldaten begleiteter Aufmarsch am Brandenburger Tor. Auf dem Stein u.l. ... |
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