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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3359 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Lugo, Emil 1840 Stockach - 1902 Munich. Short break during haymaking. Charcoal, India ink, pencil and opaque white on wove ... | ||||
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3306 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Lugo, Emil 1840 Stockach - 1902 Munich. Short break during haymaking. Charcoal, India ink and pencil, heightened with ... | starting price: 500,- EUR | |||
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2121 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Lugo, Emil 1840 Stockach - 1902 München. Black Forest landscape. Oil on panel. Signed lower right and dated 1890. DDDD1840 ... | ||||
2122 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Lugo, Emil 1840 Stockach - 1902 München. Landscape at Breisgau. Oil on panel. Signed lower left and dated 1889. Verso a letter ... | ||||
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3292 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Lugo, Emil 1840 Stockach - 1902 München. Hilly landscape with gnarled trees. Oil on canvas, mounted on plywood. Monogrammed ... | ||||
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4404 (Autumn Auctions Lugo, Emil 1840 Stockach - 1902 München. View from the hill, called Lorettoberg, at | ||||
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4486 (Spring Auctions Lugo, Emil 1840 Stockach - 1902 München. «Badende Nymphen (bathing nymphs)». Oil on canvas. Signed lower left and dated ... | ||||
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4702 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Lugo, Emil 1840 Stockach - 1902 München. E At the lake. Oil on canvas. Unsigned. Catalogue raisonné: Djabapour ... | ||||
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1661 (Spring Auctions Lugo, Emil 1840 Stockach - 1902 M¸nchen. E ´Loretto im Sommer (Loretto in summer)ª - Freiburg im Breisgau. Oil on canvas, ... | ||||
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1973 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Lugo, Emil 1840 Stockach - 1902 München. Öl/Karton. St. Salvator-Kirche in Prien am Herrenchiemsee. Auf einer Wiese an einem ... | ||||
1974 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Lugo, Emil 1840 Stockach - 1902 München. Öl/Karton. «Herbstlandschaft». Auf einem Weg zwischen lichtem Bewuchs im Vordergrund ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 1562 (Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009) Roman, Max 1849 Freiburg i.Br. - 1910 Karlsruhe. Öl/Lw., auf Hartfaser aufgezogen. Abend. Über Felsen und Geröll Blick auf ... | |||
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1924 (Autumn Auction Lugo, Emil 1840 Stockach - 1902 München. Öl/Lw. In sommerlicher Küstenlandschaft spielende Kinder mit antikisierend ... | ||||
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1991 (Spring Sale Lugo, Emil 1840 Stockach - 1902 München. Lavierte Bleistiftzeichnung, weiß gehöht. Hochgebirgslandschaft, wohl im Berner ... | ||||
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2775 (Spring Sale Wilhelm Jensen Der Schwarzwald. Mit Illustrationen von Wilhelm Hasemann, Emil Lugo, Max Roman, Wilhelm Volz, Karl Eyth. 2. Aufl. ... | ||||
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2501 (Autumn Sale Lugo, Emil 1840 Stockach - 1902 München. Gouache. Blick über Gesteinsbrocken und Tannenwipfel auf verblauende ... |
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