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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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Gossaert, Jan called Mabuse after
1478 Maubeuge - 1532 Antwerp.
The Mocking of Christ.
Oil on copper. Unsigned. Paint loss, retouchings.
H 57,
The present painting is a painterly, extremely successful variation on the mockery of Christ by Jan Gossaert, called Mabuse, which is in the Szépmüvészeti Múzeum in Budapest with the inventory number 4326. It is part of the collection that Count János Pálffy (1829 - 1908) bequeathed to the museum after his death. The posture of Christ, the drapery of the cloth, as well as all architectural elements are based on the Budapest model. The most striking difference is the abandonment of the depiction of the people mocking Christ, which puts the focus on the body of the suffering Christ. In Gossaert's painting, the people are behind the blocks of stone on which Christ is sitting and in front of the wall in the background.
We would like to thank Ms Júlia Tátrai, head of the departement of Old Master paintings of the Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, for the kind remarks via
Provenance: estate of Curt Edgar Schreiber, former managing director of the watch factory Mauthe, Schwenningen, and successors. 
Gossaert, Jan gen. Mabuse nach
1478 Maubeuge - 1532 Antwerpen.
Die Verspottung Christi.
Öl auf Kupfer. Unsign. Farbfehlstellen, Retuschen.
H.
Das vorliegende Gemälde ist eine malerisch äußerst gelungene Variation nach der 1527 entstandenen Verspottung Christi von Jan Gossaert, gen. Mabuse, die sich im Szépmüvészeti Múzeum in Budapest mit der Inventarnr. 4326 befindet. Es ist Teil der Sammlung, die Graf János Pálffy (1829 - 1908) dem Museum nach seinem Tod vermachte. Die Haltung Christi, die Drapierung des Tuchs, sowie sämtliche Architekturelemente sind an das Budapester Vorbild angelehnt. Der frappierendste Unterschied ist der Verzicht auf die Darstellung des Volkes, das Jesus verspottet, und somit eine Zentrierung auf den Körper des leidenden Jesus. In Gossaerts Gemälde befindet sich das Volk hinter den Steinblöcken, auf denen Jesus sitzt, mit der Mauer im Hintergrund.
Wir danken Frau Júlia Tátrai, Leiterin der Abteilung für Alte Meister des Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, für die freundlichen Hinweise via
Provenienz: Nachlass von Curt Edgar Schreiber, ehemaliger Geschäftsführer der Uhrenfabrik Mauthe, Schwenningen, und Nachfolge.