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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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Hackert, Jacob Philipp
1737 Prenzlau - 1807 San Piero di Careggio b. Florenz.
Tuschzeichnung. Blick auf die Villa Tuscolana in Frascati. O.l. bez. «à Frascati», 1779 dat. und sign. Fleckig, Risse und rest. H. 41,5,
Eine Expertise von Dr. Claudia Nordhoff, Rom, vom 12. Oktober 2004 liegt in Kopie vor.
Dort heißt es u.a.: «Die vorliegende Zeichnung Jacob Philipp Hackerts entstand im Jahr 1779, das sich vor allem durch die Kontakte des Künstlers zur römischen Adelsfamilie Borghese auszeichnet. [...] Der Betrachter blickt von einer Anhöhe über eine baumbestandene Senke hinweg auf eine kleine Villa auf einem Hügel; rechts dahinter erscheint ein weiteres Gebäude. Die beiden Villen sind nur zart vom Zeichner konturiert und kaum im Detail zu erkennen, doch läßt der Turm der Villa auf dem Hügel darauf schließen, daß es sich hier um die Villa Tuscolana im Besitz der Familie Borghese handelt; das Gebäude rechts dahinter ist wahrscheinlich die Villa Borghese-Taverna. Der Ort Frascati selbst ist hinter der Baumgruppe am rechten Bildrand vorzustellen. [...] Es wäre durchaus denkbar, daß Hackert [...] schon in den ersten Monaten des Jahres 1779 an mögliche Themen für die Bilder der Villa Borghese dachte und in diesem Hinblick die beiden Borghese-Villen Tuscolana und Borghese-Taverna skizzierte. [...] Die Zeichnung besitzt ein Pendant, das den Palazzo Borghese in Torrenova zeigt; von denselben Maßen wie die Ansicht Frascatis, ist es signiert a Torrenova 1779/Ph. H. fec. Roma. Beide Zeichnungen müssen im Zusammenhang gesehen werden insofern, als daß auch die zweite Zeichnung als Bildvorschlag für den Prinzen Borghese gewertet werden kann.»
Studium an der Berliner Akademie.
Lit.: Claudia Nordhoff/Hans Reimer, Jakob Philipp Hackert 1737 - 1807, Verzeichnis seiner Werke, 2 Bde., Berlin 1994.