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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Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
3251 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Bei Bernau (near Bernau)». Oil on plywood. Signed lower left and ... | ||||
3252 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Sunny summer day at the Black Forest. Oil on canvas. Signed lower ... | ||||
3253 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Summer at the Black Forest. Oil on panel, mounted on press board. ... | ||||
3254 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Illenau near Achern. Oil on canvas. Signed lower ... | ||||
3255 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Summer at the Black Forest. Oil on canvas. Signed lower left and ... | ||||
3256 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Der Moserhof in Oberprechtal». Oil on canvas. Signed lower right, ... | ||||
3257 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Snow-covered Black Forest house at dusk. Gouache on brownish wove ... | ||||
3258 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Black Forest house in spring. Watercolour and gouache on strong ... | ||||
3259 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Black Forest house in a hilly autumn landscape. Watercolour over ... | ||||
3260 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Black Forest house at a sunny valley. Watercolour and gouache over ... | ||||
3261 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Farm house with stony path. Watercolour and gouache over pencil on ... | starting price: 800,- EUR | |||
3262 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Village at Prechtal. Watercolour and gouache over pencil on ... | ||||
3263 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Autumn in the Black Forest. Pencil and coloured pencil on wove ... | starting price: 1200,- EUR | |||
3264 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «St. Märgen Holzschlag Büblismühle». Pencil and coloured pencil on ... | starting price: 1100,- EUR | |||
3265 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Pfisterhof St. Märgen». Pencil and coloured pencil on wove paper, ... | ||||
3266 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Steinbachhof St. Märgen». Pencil and coloured pencil on wove ... | ||||
3267 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «St. Märgen». Pencil on wove paper. Monogrammed lower left, dated ... | ||||
3268 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Black Forest houses near St. Märgen. Pencil on strong wove paper. ... | ||||
3269 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Im Holzschlag». Pencil on wove paper. Monogrammed lower left, ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
4343 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Sunny winter's day in the deeply snow-covered Black Forest. Oil ... | ||||
4344 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Deeply snow-covered Black Forest house. Oil on canvas. Signed ... | ||||
4345 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Winter landscape with snow-clad firs. Oil on plywood. Signed lower ... | ||||
4346 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Winter landscape with fir trees at the Black Forest. Oil on ... | ||||
4347 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Two snow-covered Black Forest houses in the evening sun, a frozen ... | ||||
4348 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 First snowmelt in the Black Forest. Oil on structured masonite. ... | ||||
4349 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Black Forest houses in early spring. Oil on masonite. Signed lower ... | ||||
4350 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Der Moserhof in Oberprechtal». Oil on canvas. Signed lower right ... | starting price: 5500,- EUR | |||
4351 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Am alten Windgfällweiher». Oil on plywood. Signed lower right and ... | ||||
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4355 (Autumn Auctions Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Snowy Black Forest landscape. Oil on plywood. Signed lower ... | ||||
4356a (Autumn Auctions Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Abendsonne auf Höhenhäuser (evening sun over high houses)». Oil ... |
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