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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1257 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Pendant brooch with layered gemstone cameo «Ceres» France around 1900. Yellow gold 18k (tested). Oval front with broad frame, set with four cream-coloured seed pearls ... | ||||
1261 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Tricolour Biwako pearl necklace with diamond ball closure Christ, Hagen 1980s. White gold 14 k. All-round three-row cream-coloured, silver-grey and rose-coloured Biwako ... | ||||
1262 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Victorian starfish brooch with Deep Sea corals and oriental pearls England around 1900. Yellow and red gold 14k (tested). Front with stylised starfish, each centrally set with three ... | ||||
1263 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Belle Époque brooch with Midway coral and diamonds France around 1910. Red gold 18k (tested). Blossom-shaped front, centrally set with one Midway coral cabochon weighing ... | starting price: 500,- EUR | |||
1265 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Pair of entourage ear studs with Deep Sea corals and diamonds «2 in 1» France 1980s. Yellow gold 18k. Ear studs centrally set with one Deep Sea coral cabochon (Diam. | starting price: 1200,- EUR | |||
1266 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Lily of the Valley pendant on chain Mediterranean area 2000s. Yellow gold 18k (pendant, tested) and yellow gold 14k (chain). Flattened curb links. ... | starting price: 700,- EUR | |||
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1288 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Collection of twelve European gold coins Gold 917 and 900. 100 Crowns, Austria, profile Franz Joseph I, 1915; 20 Crowns, Austria, profile Franz Joseph I, 1915; ... | ||||
1289 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Collection of 33 commemorative coins and one medal 1968 - 1989 Silver 625. Three 10 Marks, Germany, Olympic Games in Munich, 1972; two 10 Marks, Germany, 750 Years Berlin, 1987; ... | ||||
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1291 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Movado vintage wristwatch La Chaux-de-Fonds 1950s. Yellow gold 18k. Smooth, round case. Beige-coloured dial with applied pin minute scale, pin ... | ||||
1295 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Patek Philippe white gold wristwatch «Nautilus» Geneva 2009. White gold 18k. Bull's eye case. Smokey grey-coloured, centrical horizontally embossed dial with applied ... | ||||
1296 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Patek Philippe rose gold wristwatch «Nautilus» Geneva 2009. Red gold 18k. Bull's eye case with glass back. Brown, horizontally embossed dial with applied luminous ... | ||||
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1323 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Parisian pendule Religieuse mantel clock Jean Minoche, Paris 1st half | ||||
1324 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Boulle Louis XV bracket clock with sun pendulum France around 1750 resp. around 1880 (movement). Dark patinated wood, bronze, brass and tortoiseshell. Centrally ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2002 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Cocteau, Jean 1892 Maisons-Laffitte - 1963 Milly-la-Forêt. «Le Baiser». Ball pen and coloured pencil on paper. Signed lower ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2003 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Corinth, Lovis 1858 Tapiau - 1925 Zandvoort. «Rudolf Rittner als Florian Geyer (Rudolf Rittner as Florian Geyer)». 1914. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2011 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Klinger, Max 1857 Leipzig - 1920 Großjena. «Intermezzi - Opus IV». Rad. Op. IV. 12 Compositions. 1881. Suite of twelve ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2023 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Matta, Roberto 1911 Santiago de Chile - 2002 Civitavecchia. Untitled from «Vivante Mortalité». 1973. Etching and colour ... | starting price: 250,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2024 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Pechstein, Hermann Max 1881 Zwickau - 1955 Berlin. «Frauenkopf (Lotte) (woman's head Lotte)». India ink on thin, brownish paper. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2026 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Picasso, Pablo 1881 Málaga - 1973 Mougins. «Mains au poisson». 1953. Brick coloured pottery with green, blue, black, white and ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2027 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Picasso, Pablo 1881 Málaga - 1973 Mougins. «Visage stylisé à l'Y». 1968/69. Brick coloured pottery with green, blue and white ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2029 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Picasso, Pablo after 1881 Málaga - 1973 Mougins. «Picador et Femme». Collotype on strong Arches wove paper (watermark). Signed lower ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2031 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Picasso, Pablo 1881 Málaga - 1973 Mougins. «Toros y Toreros». Published by DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1980. Not paginated, not ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2034 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Schwippert, Kurt 1903 Solingen - 1983 Mayen. Ecce Homo. Bronze, golden brown patinated. Unsigned. H 55, | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2044 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Zille, Heinrich 1858 Radeburg - 1929 Berlin. Portrait of the young Marga Behrends. Around 1925. Charcoal on ribbed, chamois ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2045 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Alechinsky, Pierre Born 1927 Brussels, lives and works in Bougival and Labosse. «Passe-Muraille». Colour lithograph on Arches wove ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2046 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Alechinsky, Pierre Born 1927 Brussels, lives and works in Bougival and Labosse. «Au pays de l'encre». Around 1991. Watercolour on ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2047 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Antes, Horst Born 1936 Heppenheim, lives and works in Karlsruhe, Castellina and Berlin. Untitled. Figure to the ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2050 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Antes, Horst Born 1936 Heppenheim, lives and works in Karlsruhe, Castellina and Berlin. Untitled from «Symbiosion». 1967. ... | starting price: 300,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2052 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Antes, Horst Born 1936 Heppenheim, lives and works in Karlsruhe, Castellina and Berlin. «Figur 1000 (figure 1000)». 1987. ... | starting price: 6500,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2053 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Antes, Horst Born 1936 Heppenheim, lives and works in Karlsruhe, Castellina und Berlin. «Casa Colonica weiß weiß (Casa Colonica ... |
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