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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4319 (Autumn Auctions Andreae, Karl Christian 1823 Köln-Mülheim - 1905 Sinzig. Portrait of a young man. Oil on canvas, mounted on masonite. Unsigned. Paint loss, ... | ||||
4413 (Autumn Auctions Morath, Johann Martin 1805 Stühlingen - 1867 ebd. View of Konstanz. Lithograph, coloured with gouache, on wove paper, mounted on ... | ||||
4415 (Autumn Auctions Müller-Kaempff, Paul 1861 Oldenburg - 1941 Berlin. Peasant woman at dawn in front of the house. Oil on canvas. Signed lower left and ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2030 (Spring Auctions Picasso, Pablo 1881 Málaga - 1973 Mougins. «Le Taureau noir». Lithograph on Arches wove paper (watermark). Signed lower left. ... | starting price: 15000,- EUR | ||
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3099 (Spring Auctions Kleine Seladon-Fischschale Small celadon fish bowl. Vietnam probably | starting price: 600,- EUR | |||
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4165 (Spring Auctions Kleine Barock-Stil-Kommode Small Baroque style marquetry commode. France | starting price: 2000,- EUR | |||
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4376 (Spring Auctions Andrae, Karl Christian 1823 Köln-Mülheim - 1905 Sinzig. Portrait of a young man. Oil on canvas, relined on masonite. Unsigned. Paint loss, ... | starting price: 300,- EUR | |||
4434 (Spring Auctions Hempfing, Wilhelm 1886 Schönau b. Heidelberg - 1948 Karlsruhe. Female sitting nude. Oil on canvas, margins relined. Signed upper ... | starting price: 1000,- EUR | |||
4453 (Spring Auctions Kibiger, Julius 1903 Feldberg - 1983 Müllheim. Landscape in the High Black Forest. Watercolour on ribbed (Vergé) Ingres paper ... | starting price: 400,- EUR | |||
4489 (Spring Auctions Marinemaler Marine painter | starting price: 1200,- EUR | |||
4563 (Spring Auctions Weiss, Emil Rudolf 1875 Lahr - 1942 Meersburg. Landscape in the High Black Forest. Oil on canvas. Signed lower left. DDDD1875 Lahr ... | starting price: 600,- EUR | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2159 (Autumn Auctions Haase, Volkmar 1930 Berlin - 2012 Brüssow. Fan sculpture. Metal. Signed and dated 1963 to base. Provenance: private collection ... | |||
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3061 (Autumn Auctions Große Champlevé-Vase Large Champlevé vase. China | starting price: 800,- EUR | |||
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4223 (Autumn Auctions Spätgotische Kassette Late Gothic chest. South Tyrol | ||||
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4505 (Autumn Auctions Landgrebe, Heinrich Geb. 1908 München. Upper Bavarian farmstead. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. Verso gallery label «Heinrich ... | starting price: 1400,- EUR | |||
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4548 (Autumn Auctions Kafka, Franz 1883 - 1924. German writer. L.A.S. «F». (Planá nad LuÏnici [arrival mark Prag:] 11.IX.1922.). Two double ... | ||||
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1362 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Musealer Knödelfresser Automaton clock of museum quality. Furtwangen second half 19th C. Wood, iron and brass. Full plate movement. In the ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2177 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Hartung, Hans 1904 Leipzig - 1989 Antibes. Composition in blue and yellow. Lithograph in colours. On the stone inscribed «HARTUNG ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2235 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Pfahler, Georg Karl 1926 Emetzheim - 2002 Weißenburg-Emetzheim. «Orlando II». Acrylic on canvas. Verso signed, titled and dated 1968 as ... | |||
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