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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Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
3513 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Staudacher, Vitus 1850 Gaimersheim - 1925 Baden-Baden. View of Ebersteinburg, a district of Baden-Baden. Oil on canvas. Signed lower ... | ||||
Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
2137 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Staudacher, Vitus 1850 Gaimersheim - 1925 Baden-Baden. Antonia Staudacher aged 24 underneath a peach tree. Oil on canvas. Signed ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
3315a (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Staudacher, Vitus 1850 Gaimersheim - 1925 Baden-Baden. View of the Stiftskirche in Baden-Baden. Oil on canvas. Signed lower left and ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
4418 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Staudacher, Vitus 1850 Gaimersheim - 1925 Baden-Baden. Forest path with view of the collegiate church at Baden-Baden. Oil on canvas. ... | ||||
4419 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Staudacher, Vitus 1850 Gaimersheim - 1925 Baden-Baden. Black Forest house in an autumn landscape. Oil on canvas. Signed lower left ... | ||||
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4441 (Autumn Auctions Staudacher, Vitus 1850 Gaimersheim - 1925 Baden-Baden. «Besigheim». Oil on canvas. Signed lower right and dated 1922. The ... | ||||
4442 (Autumn Auctions Staudacher, Vitus 1850 Gaimersheim - 1925 Baden-Baden. Hay harvest. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right and dated 1922. DDDD1850 ... | ||||
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4546 (Spring Auctions Staudacher, Vitus 1850 Gaimersheim - 1925 Baden-Baden. Oxcart in the forest. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right and dated ... | ||||
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2908 (Autumn Auctions Staudacher, Vitus 1850 Gaimersheim - 1925 Baden-Baden. Black Forest idyll. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated 1912 lower middle. ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
1980 (Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010) Staudacher, Vitus 1850 Gaimersheim - 1925 Baden-Baden. Straßenszene in Steinmauern bei Rastatt. Öl/Lw. U.l. sign. und 1874 dat. Rest. ... | ||||
Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
2071 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Staudacher, Vitus 1850 Gaimersheim - 1925 Baden-Baden. Öl/Holz. «Beim Rotenbächl». Neben einem kleinen Bach auf einer frühlingshaft ... | ||||
Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
1596 (Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009) Staudacher, Vitus 1850 Gaimersheim b. Ingolstadt - 1925 Baden-Baden. Öl/Lw. «Herbst». Ochsengespann auf einem Weg zwischen herbstlich ... | starting price: 2900,- EUR | |||
Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
2091 (Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008) Staudacher, Vitus 1850 Gaimersheim b. Ingolstadt - 1925 Baden-Baden. Öl/Lw. Ansicht von Baden-Baden. Von einer Wiese am Rande der ... | ||||
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2043 (Autumn Auction Staudacher, Vitus 1850 Gaimersheim b. Ingolstadt - 1925 Baden-Baden. Öl/Lw. Frühling im Schwarzwald. Im hohen Gras an einem Bächlein ... | ||||
2044 (Autumn Auction Staudacher, Vitus 1850 Gaimersheim b. Ingolstadt - 1925 Baden-Baden. Öl/Lw. Lichtentaler Allee in Baden-Baden im Sommer mit Blumen ... | ||||
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2085 (Spring Sale Staudacher, Vitus 1850 Gaimersheim b. Ingolstadt - 1925 Baden-Baden. Öl/Karton. Straßenszene in beschaulichem süddeutschem Städtchen ... | ||||
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2192 (Winter Sale Staudacher, Vitus 1850 Gaimersheim b. Ingolstadt - 1925 Baden-Baden. Öl/Lw. An einem Bach gelegenes ländliches Gehöft, im Vordergrund ... | starting price: 2500,- EUR | |||
2193 (Winter Sale Staudacher, Vitus 1850 Gaimersheim b. Ingolstadt - 1925 Baden-Baden. Öl/Lw. Vor herbstlich gefärbtem Laubwald über eine Lichtung ... | starting price: 2900,- EUR | |||
2194 (Winter Sale Staudacher, Vitus 1850 Gaimersheim b. Ingolstadt - 1925 Baden-Baden. Öl/Lw./Hartfaser. Blumen pflückendes Mädchen in hügeliger ... | starting price: 2500,- EUR | |||
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2241 (Spring Sale Staudacher, Vitus 1850 Gaimersheim b. Ingolstadt - 1925 Baden-Baden. Öl/Lw. Zwei durch einen lichten Laubwald streifende Jungen. U.l. ... |
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