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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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Fei, Liu
Geb. 1964 Nanjing, lebt und arbeitet in Beijing.
«No. 4» (take a photo for me). Oil on canvas. Signed, dated 2001 and titled lower left.
H 99,8, W 70,3 cm.
Liu Fei depicts young, bald women in an interplay between conformity and self-presentation, with a broad, excessive grin and radiant faces in expressive, often negatively connoted poses and thus comments critically on the image of the woman in Asiatic region and the constant urge to «keep one's countenance». Painted in an almost photorealistic manner with a flat application of paint - a characteristic of the artist - the painting suggests spontaneity and almost acts like an impulsive snapshot of a young woman staging herself.
Verbal authentication: We would like to thank Mr Franz Schlag, Gallery Franz Schlag, Essen, for the verbal authentication, based on photos, 24.07.2013.
Provenance: Sungari International Auction, Beijing, 2007, lot 1299; since then private collection. 
Geb. 1964 Nanjing, lebt und arbeitet in Beijing.
«No. 4» (take a photo for me). Öl auf Leinwand. U.l. sign., 2001 dat. und bet.
H. 99,8,
Liu Fei zeigt junge glatzköpfige Frauen im Wechselspiel zwischen Konformität und Selbstdarstellung, mit breitem, überzogenem Grinsen und strahlenden Gesichtern in expressiven, oftmals negativ konnotierten Posen und nimmt damit kritisch Stellung zum Bild der Frau im asiatischen Raum und dem ständigen Drang des «Gesicht Bewahrens». In beinahe photorealistischer Manier gemalt und mit für den Künstler typischem flachem Farbauftrag, suggeriert das Gemälde dem Betrachter Spontanität und wirkt fast wie ein momenthafter Schnappschuss einer sich selbst inszenierenden jungen Frau.
Mündliche Echtheitsbestätigung: Wir danken Herrn Franz Schlag, Galerie Franz Schlag, Essen, für die mündliche Bestätigung der Echtheit, anhand von Photos, 24.07.2013.
Provenienz: Sungari International Auction, Beijing, 2007, Los 1299; seitdem Privatsammlung.