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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2159 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Honigberger, Ernst 1885 Brasov - 1974 Wehr a.R. Farmer couple. Oil on masonite. Signed upper right. H 60, | ||||
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1068 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Grima, Andrew 1921 Rome - 2007 Gstaad. Amethyst pendant brooch from the Omega «Jeu d'Or» collection. London and Biel 1972. ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2114 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Marow, Ernst 1934 Chojna/West Pomerania - 2018 Kronshagen. «le champ métaphysique, auch: Das brennende Feld (II) (le champ ... | starting price: 1500,- EUR | ||
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3286 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Atlas compendiarius quinquaginta tabularum geographicarum Homanniarum alias in Atlante Majori contentarum. Published by Johann Baptist Homann. Nuremberg, Homann heirs, 1752 (dating of the ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2149 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Muter (Mutermilch), Mela (Maria Melania) 1876 Warsaw - 1967 Paris. Recto. «Buchtlandschaft (bay landscape)». View of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon. 1940s. Oil ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2045 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Troubetzkoy, Paolo (Pavel Petrovitch) 1866 Verbania - 1938 ibid. Girl braiding her hair. Dark patinated bronze. Signed to plinth. H 44, W 15 cm. ... | starting price: 1000,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2126 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Stoll, Artur und Völkle, Bernd 1947 | starting price: 350,- EUR | ||
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4508 (Spring Auctions Normann, Adelsteen 1848 Vågøya - 1918 wohl Kristiania. Sunset over lake panorama. Oil on canvas. Signed lower left, dated (18)81 and ... | ||||
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5526 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Matania, Eduardo 1847 Neapel - 1929 ebd. Musician boat. Oil on canvas, relined. Signed and dated 1872 lower left. Minor ... | ||||
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