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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Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2166 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Vasarely, Victor 1906 Pécs - 1997 Paris. «Lator». Serigraph in colours on wove paper. Signed lower right and numbered 86/300 ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2167 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Vasarely, Victor 1906 Pécs - 1997 Paris. «Biadan». 1975. Serigraph on light cardboard. Signed lower right and numbered 1/30 lower ... | |||
Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2131 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Vasarely, Victor 1906 Pécs - 1997 Paris. Untitled. Red inwards. Serigraph in colours on light cardboard, mounted on backing ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2132 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Vasarely, Victor 1906 Pécs - 1997 Paris. Untitled. Yellow outwards. Serigraph in colours on light cardboard, mounted on backing ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2133 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Vasarely, Victor 1906 Pécs - 1997 Paris. Untitled. Yellow inwards. Serigraph in colours on light cardboard, mounted on backing ... | |||
Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2245 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Vasarely, Victor 1908 Pécs - 1997 Paris. Polychrome composition. Collage of coloured, embossed papers, mounted on cardboard. Signed ... | |||
Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2183 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Vasarely, Victor 1908 Pécs - 1997 Paris. Geometric composition. Screen print on light cream cardboard. Signed lower right. Numbered ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2184 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Vasarely, Victor 1908 Pécs - 1997 Paris. «Hexa 5». 1988. Screen print in colours on light cardboard. Signed lower right and numbered ... | |||
Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2255 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Vasarely, Victor 1908 Pécs - 1997 Paris. Polychrome composition. Collage of coloured, embossed papers, mounted on cardboard. Signed ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2181 (Autumn Auctions Vasarely, Victor 1908 Pécs - 1997 Paris. Composition in black and white. Screen print on thin cardboard. Signed lower right and ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2271 (Autumn Auctions Vasarely, Victor 1908 Pécs - 1997 Paris. «Le musée imaginaire». 1978. Collage on cardboard. Numbered 13/100 lower left and signed ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2272 (Autumn Auctions Vasarely, Victor 1908 Pécs - 1997 Paris. Composition with flowers and angel. Serigraph in colours on laid paper. Numbered 163/200 ... | starting price: 500,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2287 (Autumn Auctions Konvolut Graphiken Collection of graphics. 16 pieces. Paul Wunderlich, «Guten Morgen (good morning)»; Friedrich Meckseper, «Drei Kugeln ... | |||
Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2286 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Vasarely, Victor 1908 Pécs - 1997 Paris. Abstract composition in red and blue. 1961. Serigraph. With later inscription «Vasarely» ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2302 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Hommage à Carl Laszlo Hommage à Carl Laszlo. Volume 2, Edition le Cadre, H. Dudé, Olten. 29 red cardboard cards with covering page numbered ... | |||
Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2357 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Konvolut Panderma Collection of Panderma magazines. Six issues. Revue de la fin du monde. Published by Carl Laszlo, Panderma, Basel. ... | starting price: 100,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2358 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Konvolut Kataloge Kestner-Gesellschaft Hannover Collection of catalogues of the Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover. 118 catalogues. Comprising «Joan Miró», 5/6/1989. ... | |||
Autumn Auctions | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1359 (Autumn Auctions Vasarely, Victor von 1908 Pécs - 1997 Paris. Abstract composition in red and blue. 1961. Serigraph. Signed lower right in pencil. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1360 (Autumn Auctions Vasarely, Victor von 1908 Pécs - 1997 Paris. «Naissances». 1963. Serigraph. Signed lower middle in pencil. Provenance: since 1967 in ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1361 (Autumn Auctions Vasarely, Victor von 1908 Pécs - 1997 Paris. «Naissances». 1963. Serigraph. Signed lower middle in pencil. Provenance: since 1967 in ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1362 (Autumn Auctions Vasarely, Victor von 1908 Pécs - 1997 Paris. Geometric composition. Seven serigraphs of one motive. Partially signed in the stone. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1386 (Autumn Auctions La lune en rodage I Edition Panderma, Carl Laszlo, Basel 1960. Collected volume of original drawings, collages, smoke drawings, paper ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1387 (Autumn Auctions La lune en rodage II Edition Panderma, Carl Laszlo, Basel 1965. Number 15 of an edition of 150 copies. Collected volume of original ... | |||
Spring Auctions | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1898 (Spring Auctions Vasarely, Victor von 1908 PÈcs - 1997 Paris. E Abstract composition in red and blue. Serigraph. Signed lower right in pencil. Minor ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1899 (Spring Auctions Vasarely, Victor von 1908 PÈcs - 1997 Paris. E Abstract composition. Serigraph. Signed lower right in pencil. Minor discolouration. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1900 (Spring Auctions Vasarely, Victor von 1908 PÈcs - 1997 Paris. E Composition in black and blue. Serigraph. Signed lower middle. Verso collection label ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1901 (Spring Auctions Vasarely, Victor von 1908 PÈcs - 1997 Paris. E Abstract composition. Serigraph. Signed lower right in pencil. Minor discolouration. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1902 (Spring Auctions Vasarely, Victor von 1908 PÈcs - 1997 Paris. E Abstract composition. Serigraph. Signed lower right in pencil. Minor discolouration. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1903 (Spring Auctions Vasarely, Victor von 1908 PÈcs - 1997 Paris. E Abstract composition. Serigraph. Signed lower right in pencil. Minor discolouration. ... | |||
Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2180 (Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010) Vasarely, Victor von 1908 Pécs - 1997 Paris. «CTA-102». Serigraphie, montiert. Abstrakte Komposition aus Kreisen in changierenden ... |
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