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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Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
4664 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Freiburg i.Br. - 1947 Todtnau. E Black Forest house at a creek. Oil on canvas. Signed lower left. ... | ||||
4665 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Freiburg i.Br. - 1947 Todtnau. E Winter forest with glade. Oil on canvas. Signed lower left. DDDD1880 ... | ||||
4666 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Freiburg i.Br. - 1947 Todtnau. E Path to the farmhouse. Oil on canvas. Signed and inscribed «Fbg» lower ... | ||||
4667 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Freiburg i.Br. - 1947 Todtnau. E Watermill in the Black Forest. Oil on panel. Signed and dated (19)35 lower ... | ||||
4668 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Freiburg i.Br. - 1947 Todtnau. E The Matterhorn. Oil on panel. Signed and dated (19)05 lower right. Photo ... | ||||
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2845 (Autumn Auctions Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Freiburg i.Br. - 1947 Todtnau. Snow covered fir forest with mountain stream. Oil on panel. Signed and dated ... | ||||
2846 (Autumn Auctions Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Freiburg i.Br. - 1947 Todtnau. View across a snow covered valley. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. ... | ||||
2847 (Autumn Auctions Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Freiburg i.Br. - 1947 Todtnau. View across the snow-covered Black Forest. Oil on canvas. Signed lower left. ... | ||||
2848 (Autumn Auctions Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Freiburg i.Br. - 1947 Todtnau. Beginning of autumn in the Black Forest. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. ... | ||||
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1606 (Spring Auctions Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Freiburg i.Br. - 1947 Todtnau. E Spring in the Black Forest. Oil on canvas. Signed lower left. DDDD1880 ... | ||||
1607 (Spring Auctions Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Freiburg i.Br. - 1947 Todtnau. E House on the Feldberg. Oil on canvas. Signed lower left. DDDD1880 Freiburg ... | ||||
1608 (Spring Auctions Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Freiburg i.Br. - 1947 Todtnau. E Snow in the mountains. Oil on canvas. Signed lower left. DDDD1880 ... | ||||
1609 (Spring Auctions Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Freiburg i.Br. - 1947 Todtnau. E ´Sonniger Wintertag im Elztal (sunny winter day in Elz valley)ª. Oil on ... | ||||
1610 (Spring Auctions Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Freiburg i.Br. - 1947 Todtnau. E View over the valley. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. DDDD1880 ... | ||||
1611 (Spring Auctions Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Freiburg i.Br. - 1947 Todtnau. E Winter in the Black Forest. Oil on canvas. Signed lower left. ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
1812 (Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Freiburg i.Br. - 1947 Todtnau. «Blick vom Feldberg ins Wiesental». Öl/Holz. Sommerliche Schwarzwaldlandschaft ... | ||||
1813 (Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Freiburg i.Br. - 1947 Todtnau. Aufziehendes Herbstgewitter im Schwarzwald. Öl/Lw. Schwarzwaldhaus in ... | ||||
1814 (Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Freiburg i.Br. - 1947 Todtnau. Schwarzwaldhaus im Schnee. Öl/Lw., auf Hartfaser aufgelegt. An einem mit Schnee ... | ||||
1815 (Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Freiburg i.Br. - 1947 Todtnau. «Blick ins Wiesental bei Brandhalde». Öl/Holz. Fernblick auf ... | ||||
1816 (Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Freiburg i.Br. - 1947 Todtnau. Schwarzwaldlandschaft. Öl/Lw. Von erhöhtem Standpunkt Blick auf ein ... | ||||
1817 (Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Freiburg i.Br. - 1947 Todtnau. Herbstliche Schwarzwaldlandschaft. Öl/Lw. Panorama von Schwarzwaldhügeln ... | ||||
Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
1901 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Freiburg i.Br. - 1947 Todtnau. Öl/Lw. Hochalpental. Blick über eine weite verschneite Fläche mit einzelner ... | ||||
1902 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Freiburg i.Br. - 1947 Todtnau. Öl/Lw. Hochtal in den Alpen. Über eine verschneite Hochebene mit vereinzelten ... | ||||
1903 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Freiburg i.Br. - 1947 Todtnau. Öl/Lw. Alter Hof im Gutachtal. In abendlicher Stimmung Blick auf ein ... | ||||
1904 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Freiburg i.Br. - 1947 Todtnau. Öl/Lw. Winterliches Schwarzwaldhaus. Auf einer kleinen Anhöhe über einer ... | ||||
1905 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Freiburg i.Br. - 1947 Todtnau. Öl/Lw. Kapelle im Schnee. Auf einem nach rechts abfallenden tiefverschneitem ... | ||||
1906 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Freiburg i.Br. - 1947 Todtnau. Öl/Lw. Schwarzwaldhof im Schnee. Von einer Anhöhe mit kleinem Teich Blick auf ... | ||||
1907 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Freiburg i.Br. - 1947 Todtnau. Öl/Lw. Verschneite Tannen. Vom Waldrand aus Blick in eine kleine Lichtung ... | ||||
1908 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Freiburg i.Br. - 1947 Todtnau. Öl/Lw. Abendstunde im Schwarzwald. Von erhöhtem Standpunkt Blick auf ein ... | ||||
1909 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Freiburg i.Br. - 1947 Todtnau. Öl/Lw. Abend im Schwarzwald. An einem verschneiten Hang ein Schwarzwaldhaus im ... |
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