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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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Bott, Francis
1904 Frankfurt a.M. - 1998 Cortivallo.
«Poème - Dialogue de la Résurrection». Portfolio, consisting of eight screen prints in colours with text and one vignette on Arches wove paper (watermark). Each unsigned. Signed on the last side, numbered «4» and inscribed with the work's data. Dedicated in the first double sheet «für Madame et Monsieur Borchert ein kleines Weihnachtsgeschenk mit aller Bewunderung für Sie Beide. Manja + Francis Bott». Auction notes on the inside of the portfolio. Paper discoloured, partially water stains and foxing.
Published in 1953 in an originally planned edition of 100 examples with nine screen prints in colours, the first ten copies including an original gouache by the artist. Just a few copies have been realised. The present portfolio is incomplete, without the gouache and without Henze 286, instead with an additional copy of Henze 285. Published by Edition Caractères, Paris, printed by Bruno Durocher, Paris. Texts by Loys Masson, illustrated with the screen prints by Francis Bott on ten loose double sheets, in the original cream paper wrap.
Catalogue raisonné: Henze 
1904 Frankfurt a.M. - 1998 Cortivallo.
«Poème - Dialogue de la Résurrection». Portfolio, bestehend aus acht Farbserigraphien mit Text und einer Vignette auf Velin von Arches (Wasserzeichen). Jeweils unsign. Auf der letzten Seite sign., «4» num. und bez. mit den Angaben zum Werk. Im ersten Doppelbogen gewidmet «für Madame et Monsieur Borchert ein kleines Weihnachtsgeschenk mit aller Bewunderung für Sie Beide. Manja + Francis Bott». Auf der Innenseite der Mappe mit Auktionsvermerken. Papier gebräunt, partiell Wasser- und Stockflecken.
H. 19,5
Erschienen 1953 in einer geplanten Gesamtauflage von 100 Exemplaren mit neun Farbserigraphien, davon die ersten zehn mit einer Originalgouache des Künstlers. Es wurden nur wenige Exemplare realisiert. Hier unvollständiges Portfolio ohne die Gouache und ohne Henze 286, stattdessen mit einem zusätzlichen Exemplar von Henze 285. Herausgegeben von Edition Caractères, Paris, gedruckt bei Bruno Durocher, Paris. Texte von Loys Masson, illustriert mit den Serigraphien von Francis Bott auf zehn losen Doppelbögen, in der originalen Kartonmappe.
Werkverzeichnis: Henze