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.
Carl Spitzweg |
There are 251 matches. | ||||
| ||||
In our current auction you will also find works by Carl Spitzweg. | ||||
Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
3227 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Holzschlag Kaltenbach». Black Forest farm with shed. Pencil ... | ||||
3228 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Ibental». Mill with overshot water wheel. Pencil and coloured ... | ||||
Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
3313 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Feldbergtannen im Morgenlicht (Feldberg firs in the morning ... | ||||
3314 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Feldbergtannen (Feldberg firs)». Deeply snow-covered fir trees in ... | ||||
3315 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Herzogenhorn (Feldberg)». Summit cross in winter twilight against ... | ||||
3319 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Todtmoos Rütte». Snow-covered Black Forest farms at the blue ... | ||||
3320 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Im kl. Wiesental. Schwarzwald. (in the small Wiesental. Black ... | ||||
3321 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 1920s. Snow-covered Black Forest hamlet in the glaring sunlight of ... | ||||
3325 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Two Black Forest farms in the winter twilight. Oil on canvas. ... | starting price: 6500,- EUR | |||
3326 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Snow-covered Black Forest farms with pond. Oil on canvas. ... | ||||
3330 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Thaw in the Black Forest. Oil on canvas, mounted on plywood. ... | ||||
3341 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Todtmoos Rütte». Black Forest hamlet in the sunny early spring. ... | ||||
3347 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Höfe bei Zell/Wiesental (farm houses near Zell/Wiesental)». Black ... | ||||
3348 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Waldinneres (inside the forest)». Creek in the summer fir forest. ... | ||||
3353 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Red sandstone bridge over a creek during summer. 1908 - 1914. ... | ||||
3354 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Naturstudie, Elzach (nature study, Elzach)». Black Forest house ... | starting price: 1400,- EUR | |||
3355 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Black Forest farm in spring. Watercolour and gouache on ... | starting price: 600,- EUR | |||
3366 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Autumnal view of the Wiesental. Oil on canvas. Signed lower ... | ||||
Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
3268 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Wintertag im Wiesental (winter day in the Wiesental)». Oil on ... | ||||
3269 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Blick v. Blößling z. Wacht (view from the Blößling to the ... | ||||
3270 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Pentaptych with snow-covered Black Forest landscape. Oil on ... | ||||
3271 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Snow-covered Black Forest farm in the evening sun. Oil on ... | ||||
3272 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Aufziehendes Wintergewitter. Elztal (rising winter storm. ... | ||||
3273 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Black Forest farmhouses in winter. Circa 1930. Oil on canvas, ... | ||||
3274 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Frühling im Schwarzwald (spring in the Black Forest)». ... | ||||
Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
3191 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Bei St. Märgen». View of the snow-covered Rankmühle. Oil on ... | ||||
3192 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Looming snow front at the Feldberg. Oil on canvas. Signed ... | ||||
3193 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Nach einem Schneegewitter auf dem Herzogenhorn (after a snow ... | ||||
3194 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 View from the Feldberg to the Herzogenhorn in the evening ... | ||||
3195 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 City view of Freiburg. Oil on canvas. Signed lower left und ... |
| ||||