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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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Dietrich, Adolf
1877 Berlingen - 1957 ebd.
E ´Buchen im Herbst mit Eichelh”hern (beeches in autumn with jaybirds)ª. Oil on cardboard. Signed lower right and dated 1921. Verso label of the Kunsthaus Mannheim, label with number 21, inscribed, titled and dated 1921 and indistinct stamp. Wavy, minor retouching and minor pigment loss on the margin. Expert report: Markus Landert, Kunstmuseum Thurgau - Ittinger Museum, Kartause Ittingen, Warth, 17.03.2011. Provenance: Das Kunsthaus Mannheim, Mannheim; Private property, Ludwigshafen, and heirs. Exhibitions: Das Kunsthaus, Mannheim, 1925, no. 41; Gem”ldeausstellung von Adolf Dietrich, Ernst D¸ring, K. Adolf Egli, Hermann Volz, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, 05. - 12.09.1926. Literature: Margot Riess, Der Maler und Holzf”ller Adolf Dietrich, 1927, ill. 13; Maler und Holzf”ller, in: ´Die Wocheª Heft 30, Berlin 1927, p. 884; Dr. Musper, Maler und Holzf”ller Adolf Dietrich, in: ´Stuttgarter Illustrierteª no. 45, 1932, p. 1068. Catalogue raisonnÈ: Ammann/V–gele 21. 
1877 Berlingen - 1957 ebd.
´Buchen im Herbst mit Eichelh”hernª. ÷l/Karton. Vor dem Hintergrund eines in warmen Erdt–nen gemalten Herbstwaldes zwei Eichelh”her in den Baumkronen und eine Amsel auf einem St¸ck gr¸ner Wiese am Fuþe des Waldes. U.r. sign. und 1921 dat. Verso Etikett des Kunsthauses Mannheim, Etikett mit Nummer 21, bez., bet. und 1921 dat. sowie undeutlicher Stempel. Gewellt, min. Retuschen, kl. Farbabsplitterungen im Randbereich. H. 63, B. 52,5 cm.
Das von Ausstellungen bekannte Werk des ber¸hmten Thurgauer Malers Adolf Dietrich zeigt in eindrucksvoller Weise die malerische Umsetzung seiner in der Natur skizzierten Eindr¸cke, die er in akribisch feiner Malweise in seinem Atelier ausarbeitete. Dabei wirkt die Ausgestaltung der zahlreichen, mehrfarbenen Buchenbl”tter beinahe ornamental, w”hrend die genaue Darstellung des Gefieders der Eichelh”her die Detailverliebtheit des K¸nstlers zeigt, f¸r welche dieser hoch gesch”tzt wird.
Gutachten: Markus Landert, Kunstmuseum Thurgau - Ittinger Museum, Kartause Ittingen, Warth, 17.03.2011.
Provenienz: Das Kunsthaus Mannheim, Mannheim; Privatbesitz, Ludwigshafen, und Nachfolge.
Ausstellungen: Das Kunsthaus Mannheim, Mannheim, 1925, Nr. 41; Gem”ldeausstellung von Adolf Dietrich, Ernst D¸ring, K. Adolf Egli, Hermann Volz, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, 05. - 12.09.1926.
Literatur: Margot Riess, Der Maler und Holzf”ller Adolf Dietrich, o.O. 1927, Abb. 13; Maler und Holzf”ller, in: ´Die Wocheª Heft 30, Berlin 1927, S. 884; Dr. Musper, Maler und Holzf”ller Adolf Dietrich, in: ´Stuttgarter Illustrierteª Nr. 45, o.O. 1932, S. 1068.
Werkverzeichnis: Ammann/V–gele 21.