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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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Nesterov, Mikhail Vasilievich
1862 Ufa - 1942 Moskau.
E The holy of holies. Watercoloured pencil drawing and gouache on paper, paper and cardboard. Unsigned. Verso donation note and dated 1927. Verso cardboard with label of the I.E. Grabar Centre with expert report number 68/09. Expert report: Federal agency for art and cinematography, federal office for culture, Russian artistic I.E. Grabar Centre for scientific restoration, 18.02.2009, in copy.
1862 Ufa - 1942 Moskau.
Das Allerheiligste. Aquarellierte Bleistiftzeichung und Gouache/Papier/Papier/Karton. In gr¸ner Landschaft die Darstellung der Hl. Olga in rotem Gewand und gelbem Umhang, mit Krone und Kreuz. Unsign. Verso Schenkungsvermerk und 1927 dat. Verso auf Karton Etikett des I.-E.-Grabar-Zentrums mit Expertisennummer 68/09. H. 14, B. 8 cm (Blattgr–þe).
Nachdem Nesterov sich zun”chst mit gesellschaftlichen und historischen Themen befasste, widmete er sich gegen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts vornehmlich religi–sen Motiven, wie auch auf dem vorliegenden Bildchen der heiligen Olga, die zwischen 945 und 969 Groþf¸rstin von Kiew war und im Jahr 1547 von der russisch-orthodoxen Kirche heiliggesprochen wurde.
Gutachten: Bundesagentur f¸r Kunst und Kinematographie, Staatliches Bundesamt f¸r Kultur, Allrussisches k¸nstlerisches I.-E.-Grabar-Zentrum f¸r wissenschaftliche Restaurierung, 18.02.2009, in Kopie.
Die vorliegende Arbeit ist laut Gutachten eine Skizze zu dem Bild ´Die heilige apostelgleiche F¸rstin Ol'gaª von 1927 aus der Sammlung der Staatlichen Tret'jakov-Galerie Moskau. Es handelt sich um eine Ðberarbeitung des Bildes der heiligen Ol'ga, das Nesterov 1892 f¸r die Ikonostase des s¸dlichen Seitenaltars der Vladimirkathedrale in Kiew gemalt hatte. Die Schrift des Schenkungsvermerk an seine Enkelin Irina zum Geburtstag verso, stimmt laut Gutachten mit den entsprechenden Autographen von Nesterov ¸berein. Ein weiterer Schenkungsvermerkes der Enkelin Irina Vladimirovna Sreter an den K¸nstler Sena Usakov befand sich auf dem Passepartout, welches verloren gegangen ist. Trotz fehlender Signatur best”tigt das Gutachten die Arbeit aufgrund der Entstehungszeit und der stilistischen Eigenheiten als Werk von Nesterov.