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. | 2121 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Morat, Wilhelm Born 1954 Neustadt/Black Forest, lives and works in Titisee-Neustadt. Torso. Handmade flax paper with enclosed ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2122 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Morat, Wilhelm Born 1954 Neustadt/Black Forest, lives and works in Titisee-Neustadt. Untitled. Bird with food. Collage out of ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2124 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Morat, Wilhelm Born 1954 Neustadt/Black Forest, lives and works in Titisee-Neustadt. Untitled. Collage out of plant paper and ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2125 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Morat, Wilhelm Born 1954 Neustadt/Black Forest, lives and works in Titisee-Neustadt. Untitled. Around 1996. Assemblage out of ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2130 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Penck, A.R., i.e. Ralf Winkler 1939 Dresden - 2017 Zurich. Untitled. Girl. Around 1952/53. Watercolour on strong wove paper. Signed lower ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2133 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Plensa, Jaume Born 1955 Barcelona, lives and works in Barcelona. «Paysage III». Mixed media with collage on brownish ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2135 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Rainer, Arnulf Born 1929 Baden by Vienna, lives and works in Enzenkirchen and Teneriffa. «Rotes Kreuz unter Kopf (red cross under ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2136 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Rainer, Arnulf Born 1929 Baden by Vienna, lives and works in Enzenkirchen and Teneriffa. «Rotes Kreuz verhüllt mit Haube (red ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2137 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Rainer, Arnulf Born 1929 Baden by Vienna, lives and works in Enzenkirchen and Teneriffa. «Baum (tree)». 1964/68. Etching on ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2144 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Schumacher, Emil 1912 Hagen - 1999 San José/Ibiza. «G-18/1979». Mixed media with gouache, India ink and sand on brown primed ... | starting price: 7000,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2145 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Schumacher, Emil 1912 Hagen - 1999 San José/Ibiza. «3/1991». 1991. Aquatint and drypoint on BFK Rives 300 g laid paper ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2146 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Semmer, Bettina Born 1955 Düsseldorf, lives and works in Berlin. Untitled. Fishes. Around 1983. Acrylic on canvas. Verso ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2147 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Sims, Phil Born 1940 Richmond, lives and works in Lakewood and Yucatan. «Untitled Pastell». Pastel and pencil on drawing ... | starting price: 1000,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2148 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Sirvent, Josep Maria Born 1957 Llívia, lives and works in Palma de Mallorca. «Estela». 1989. Weathering steel and iron with natural ... | |||
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3195 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Clarenbach, Max 1880 Neuss - 1952 Köln. Around 1920. Winter at the old Rhine waterbody near Wittlaer. Oil on canvas. Signed ... | ||||
3207 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Egel(-Goldschmidt), Thomas Born 1947 Evening sun in the ... | ||||
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3213 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Haecke, Joseph 1811 Mülheim a.Rh. - after 1856 (?). The Siebengebirge (seven mountains) with Drachenfels and opposite the ... | ||||
3215 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 View onto deeply snow-covered St. Blasien. Menzenschwand. Oil ... | ||||
3216 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Black Forest farm with stream in the winter sun. 1920s. Oil ... | ||||
3218 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Two snow covered Black Forest farms. 1920s. Oil on cardboard. ... | ||||
3220 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Frühling im Schwarzwald. (spring in the Black Forest.)». Farm on ... | ||||
3221 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Frankfurt Main Palmengarten (Frankfurt Main palm tree garden)». ... |
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