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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1769 (Spring Sale Heiligenmaler 18./ Öl/Kupfer. Von Strahlenkranz umgebene Maria, das Christuskind im Arm haltend. Unsign. ... | ||||
1770 (Spring Sale Heiligenmaler Öl/Lw., doubl. Flucht nach Ägypten. Hl. Familie unter einem Baum rastend. Im Hintergrund ... | starting price: 1500,- EUR | |||
1906 (Spring Sale Heiligenmaler 19./ Öl/Lw. Brustbildnis der Hl. Maria mit weißem Kruseler, rotem Gewand und blauem Umhang, den ... | starting price: 1200,- EUR | |||
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2228 (Autumn Sale Bonnekamp, Viktor Porträtist und Heiligenmaler um 1900. Öl/Lw. «St. Cäcilia». Darstellung der Heiligen, Heiligenschein über den nach ... | starting price: 400,- EUR | |||
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2011 (Spring Sale Heiligenmaler Öl/Kupfer. In Landschaft kniende Maria Magdalena, von Putti umgeben, eine Quelle, ein Buch ... | ||||
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1857 (Winter Sale Heiligenmaler Süddeutsch Öl/Lw., doubl. Vor der in den Wolken thronenden Maria mit Jesuskind kniender Hl. ... | ||||
2003 (Winter Sale Heiligenmaler Peru Öl/Lw. Über drei Puttiköpfen und Mondsichel stehende Madonna in prächtigem Gewand, in ... | starting price: 200,- EUR | |||
2004 (Winter Sale Heiligenmaler Peru Öl/Lw. Halbfigurenbildnis einer gekrönten Madonna mit Kind auf dem rechten Arm. Starke ... | ||||
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1658 (Autumn Sale Heiligenmaler 18./ Lavierte Tuschezeichnung. «Maria Hilff». In Rahmung mit Zopfgirlanden und ... | starting price: 60,- EUR | |||
1659 (Autumn Sale Heiligenmaler Wohl Öl/Lw. Brustbildnis der betenden Muttergottes. Unsign. Starke Farbabsplitterungen. ... | ||||
1660 (Autumn Sale Heiligenmaler Süddeutsch Öl/Lw., doubl. Vor der in den Wolken thronenden Maria mit Jesuskind kniender Hl. ... | starting price: 400,- EUR | |||
1999 (Autumn Sale Paas, A. Heiligenmaler Gouache. Vor floral geprägtem Goldgrund Kreuzigung Christi, flankiert von Maria ... | starting price: 250,- EUR | |||
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1608 (Spring Sale Heiligenmaler Um 1800. Tempera/Holz. "Ecce Homo". Halbfigurenbildnis von Christus als Schmerzensmann vor Goldgrund mit ... | ||||
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1788 (Spring Sale Heiligenmaler Öl/Lw. Vor dem schlafenden Christuskind kniende Maria mit Johannesknaben. Im Hintergrund ... | ||||
1789 (Spring Sale Heiligenmaler Süddeutsch Öl/Lw., doubl. Vor der in den Wolken thronenden Maria mit Jesuskind kniender Hl. ... | starting price: 900,- EUR | |||
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2295 (Winter Sale Heiligenmaler 18./ Öl/Holz. Brustbildnis des Hl. Franziskus mit Buch und Kreuz. Unsign. Ber. H. 23,5, ... | ||||
2296 (Winter Sale Heiligenmaler 18./ Öl/Holz. Halbfigurenbildnis des Hl. Antonius mit Buch und Lilie, den Kopf nach links oben ... | ||||
2297 (Winter Sale Heiligenmaler 18./ Öl/Holz, furniert. Die Heilige Familie. Sitzende Muttergottes, dem Christuskind einen ... | ||||
2298 (Winter Sale Heiligenmaler Öl/Lw./Karton. Halbfigurenbildnis der Hl. Barbara, in den Händen einen Kelch mit Hostie ... | ||||
2299 (Winter Sale Heiligenmaler 18./ Öl/Lw./Holz. Maria mit Christuskind in den Wolken. Die Gottesmutter mit nach oben ... | ||||
2300 (Winter Sale Heiligenmaler 18./ Öl/Blech. Taufe Christi. Auf einem Stein im Jordan kniender Christus, vor ihm Johannes der ... | starting price: 350,- EUR | |||
2301 (Winter Sale Heiligenmaler Öl/Lw. Kreuzigung Christi. Links vom Kreuz Hauptmann zu Pferde und Stephanus mit dem ... | starting price: 3800,- EUR | |||
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2475 (Winter Sale Heiligenmaler Öl/Holz, parkettiert. Beweinung Christi. Weinende Maria, sich an den Leichnam Christi ... | ||||
2476 (Winter Sale Heiligenmaler Öl/Holz. Stehende Heilige mit brennender Kerze nach gotischem Vorbild, wohl die Hl. Agathe. ... | starting price: 1200,- EUR | |||
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2192 (Autumn Sale Heiligenmaler 18./ Öl/Holz, furniert. Die Heilige Familie. Sitzende Muttergottes, dem Christuskind einen ... | starting price: 250,- EUR | |||
2193 (Autumn Sale Heiligenmaler Wohl Öl/Lw./Holz. Junge Frau, vor Jesus, in Begleitung seiner Jünger, auf die Knie fallend. Im ... | ||||
2194 (Autumn Sale Heiligenmaler 17./ Öl/Lw., doubl. Apostel Paulus. Brustbildnis eines älteren bärtigen Mannes in rotem Gewand, ... | starting price: 500,- EUR |
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