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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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Kissel, Hans-Michael
Born 1942 Worms, lives and works in Ladenburg.
«Im Sternzeichen des Daedalus (in the star sign of Daedalus)». Wind kinetic sculpture.
1999. Standing mobile. Aluminium and stainless steel, varnished, ball bearing. Unsigned. Weathering.
H 258,
W 50,
H 159 cm (mounting).
Only when there is no wind, nothing will move; a light touch is enough to set the steel arms and their dovetailed sails in motion, sometimes sluggishly, sometimes sweepingly - one impulse causing another one. A requirement for the noiseless oscillation of the work «Im Sternzeichen des Dädalus (in the star sign of Daedalus)» is the delicate balance of each individual element. Daedalus, the mythical inventor who constructed wings from feathers and wax to carry him and his son Icarus to freedom, conquered the skies and thus originated the ancient dream of flying. A larger version of this work is in front of the Staatliche Zeichenakademie in Hanau.
Authentication: We would like to thank Mrs Annette Kissel, wife of the artist, for the authentication via
Provenance: private collection Klaus Hug, 
Kissel, Hans-Michael
Geb. 1942 Worms, lebt und arbeitet in Ladenburg.
«Im Sternzeichen des Daedalus». Windkinetische Plastik.
1999. Stehendes Mobile. Aluminium und Edelstahl, lackiert, kugelgelagert. Unsign. Witterungsspuren.
H.
B.
H. 159 cm (Halterung).
Nur bei absoluter Windstille regt sich nichts; ein leichter Hauch genügt und die stählernen Arme und ihre schwalbenschwanzförmigen Segel setzen sich mal träge, mal schwungvoll in Bewegung, wobei ein Impuls einen entgegengesetzten bedingt. Voraussetzung für die lautlosen Schwingungen des Werks «Im Sternzeichen des Dädalus» ist das empfindliche Gleichgewicht der einzelnen Elemente untereinander. Dädalus, der mythische Erfinder, der aus Federn und Wachs Flügel konstruierte, die ihn und seinen Sohn Ikarus in die Freiheit trugen, eroberte den Himmel und begründete damit den sagenumwobenen Ursprung des Traumes vom Fliegen. Eine größere Version dieser Arbeit befindet sich vor der Staatlichen Zeichenakademie in Hanau.
Echtheitsbestätigung: Wir danken Frau Annette Kissel, Ehefrau des Künstlers, für die Bestätigung der Echtheit via
Provenienz: Privatsammlung Klaus Hug,