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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Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2002 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Baudrexel, Eduard (Edvard) 1890 Munich - 1968 ibid. «Hibiskus (hibiscus)». Oil on masonite. Signed lower right and dated 1966. H 60, W ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2013 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Dalí, Salvador 1904 Figueras - 1989 ibid. «Dante recouvre la vue» from «La Divine Comédie». 1964. Xylography in colour on BFK ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2016 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Ewald, Reinhold 1890 Hanau - 1974 ibid. «Am Lido I» Oil on canvas. Signed lower left. Verso on the stretcher titled by a ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2021 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Hubbuch, Karl 1891 Karlsruhe - 1979 ibid. «Le Havre». Probably 1961. Mixed media with coloured chalk and ink on watercolour ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2022 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Hubbuch, Karl 1891 Karlsruhe - 1979 ibid. «Auf dem Boulevard de la Chapelle (Paris) (at the Boulevard de la Chapelle in ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2038 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Miró, Joan 1893 Barcelona - 1983 Palma de Mallorca. «Album 13, plate XI». Lithograph on PUR FIL MARAIS wove paper ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2049 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Beauvoir, Hélène de 1910 Paris - 2001 Goxwiller. «Les Femmes Papillons». Oil on canvas. Signed lower right and dated (19)79. Verso ... | starting price: 6000,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2051 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Berke, Hubert 1908 Gelsenkirchen-Buer - 1979 Cologne-Rodenkirchen. «Syrien (Syria)». Mixed media with watercolour, gouache and ... | starting price: 500,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2055 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Bohrmann, Karl 1928 Mannheim - 1998 Cologne. Untitled. Collage from journal cuttings, cardboard, watercolour, opaque white and ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2056 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Bohrmann, Karl 1928 Mannheim - 1998 Cologne. Untitled. Collage from envelope, cardboard, Japon, watercolour and chalk, mounted ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2068 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Dreher, Peter Born 1932 Mannheim, lives and works in Wittnau. Bunch of roses in a glass vase. Etching on 8Y laid paper ... | starting price: 800,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2076 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Fauth, Claudia Born 1962 Berlin, lives and works in Berlin. «Matrix In Creation No 6». Acrylic on canvas. Verso signed, titled ... | starting price: 2000,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2078 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Feito López, Luis Born 1929 Madrid, lives and works in Paris. «1977». Acrylic and oil on canvas. Verso signed, titled and dated ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2084 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Förg, Günther 1952 Füssen - 2013 «Untitled». Green-red. Gouache on light cardboard. Signed upper ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2097 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Hickel-Lopez, Matthias Born 1947 Marburg, lives and works in Wilhelmsfeld. Two counterparts. Blue nudes. Oil on canvas. Signed lower ... | starting price: 600,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2098 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Hickel-Lopez, Matthias Born 1947 Marburg, lives and works in Wilhelmsfeld. Reclining female nude from the back. Oil on canvas. Signed ... | starting price: 1200,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2102 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Hüppi, Alfonso Born 1935 Untitled. Gouache on wove ... | starting price: 400,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2104 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Klemm, Barbara Born 1939 Münster, lives and works in Frankfurt a.M. Andy Warhol at the Städel Museum. Silver gelatine print on ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2116 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Penck, A.R., i.e. Ralf Winkler 1939 Dresden - 2017 Zurich. «Daten (data)». 1990. Serigraph in colours on light cardboard. Signed lower middle ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2117 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Richter, Daniel Born 1962 Eutin, lives and works in Berlin, Hamburg und Vienna. «Fun de Siècle». Offset in colours on coated ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2120 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Sherman, Cindy Born 1954 Glen Ridge, lives and works in New York City. Untitled. Witch. C-Print on photo paper. Verso signed, ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2127 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Stratmann, Roland Born 1964 Weseke, lives and works in Berlin. Untitled. Colour layers. 1989. Oil on canvas. Unsigned. H 190, ... | |||
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3148 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Barbieri, Giovanni Francesco called Il Guercino follower 1591 Cento - 1666 Bologna. Ceres with cornucopia. Oil on canvas, relined. Unsigned. White shrinking cracks. H ... | ||||
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3169 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Bizer, Emil 1881 Pforzheim - 1957 Badenweiler. Lörracher rapids at the Tumringer bridge. Oil on canvas. Signed lower left. ... | starting price: 3000,- EUR | |||
3175 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Compton, Edward Theodore 1849 London - 1921 Feldafing. Rushing stream in front of an Alpine panorama. Watercolour on strong paper, ... | ||||
3176 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Compton, Edward Theodore 1849 London - 1921 Feldafing. Chalet in the mountains. Watercolour on strong paper, mounted on backing ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2003 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Breker, Arno 1900 Elberfeld - 1991 Düsseldorf. Seated female nude. Lithograph in colours on strong Arches wove paper ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2004 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Breker, Arno 1900 Elberfeld - 1991 Düsseldorf. Kneeling female nude. Lithograph in colours on strong Arches wove paper ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2005 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Breker, Arno 1900 Elberfeld - 1991 Düsseldorf. «Der Kuss (the kiss)». 1980. Lithograph in colours on strong wove paper by Arches ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2014 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Dalí, Salvador 1904 Figueras - 1989 ebd. «Gala». 1973. Lithograph in colours on Japon. Signed lower right and numbered E.A. ... |
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