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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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Rodin, Auguste after
1840 Paris - 1917 Meudon.
«The Thinker».
Dark brown patinated bronze. Inscribed on the rock «Rodin» and «RAC» (Royal Art Collection), dated 1989, numbered 297/750 as well as foundry mark «KUNSTGUSS STREHLE», Winhöring.
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This work is a posthumous casting from an edition of 750 numbered copies. Cast by Kunstguss Strehle, Winhöring.
When Auguste Rodin conceived the well-known statue «The Thinker» as the central element crowning the monumental «Gates of Hell», the work was still entitled «The Poet». This was an allusion to the famous Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321), who wrote the «Divine Comedy», which served as the literary model for Rodin's spectacular, visually stunning portal. The pose of this figure is inspired by the sculptural group «Ugolino and his sons» by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827 - 1875) and the pensive statue of Lorenzo de' Medici by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564). Rodin's masterpiece has entered the collective visual memory and has become a symbol of the contemplative man himself, lost in thought.
Certificate: Kunsthaus Royal Art Collection, Hanover, n.d. 
Rodin, Auguste nach
1840 Paris - 1917 Meudon.
«Der Denker».
Bronze, dunkelbraun patiniert. Auf dem Felsen bez. «Rodin» und «RAC» (Royal Art Collection), 1989 dat., 297/750 num. sowie Gießerstempel «KUNSTGUSS STREHLE», Winhöring.
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Posthumer Guss aus einer Auflage von 750 nummerierten Exemplaren. Gegossen bei Kunstguss Strehle, Winhöring.
Als Auguste Rodin die unter dem Titel «Der Denker» weltbekannte Statue als zentrales, das monumentale «Höllentor» bekrönendes Element konzipierte, trug das Werk noch den Titel «Der Dichter», eine Anspielung auf den berühmten italienischen Poeten Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321), der die «Göttliche Komödie» verfasste, welche als literarische Vorlage für Rodins spektakuläres, bildgewaltiges Portal diente. Die Pose dieser Figur ist der Skulpturengruppe «Ugolino und seine Söhne» von Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827 - 1875) sowie der nachdenklichen Statue des Lorenzo de' Medici von Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564) entlehnt. Rodins Meisterwerk ist in das kollektive Bildgedächtnis eingegangen und zu einem Symbol für den in Gedanken versunkenen, kontemplativen Menschen an sich geworden.
Zertifikat: Kunsthaus Royal Art Collection, Hannover, o.D.