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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Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
3532 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Werner, Anton Alexander von 1843 Frankfurt a.d.O. - 1915 Berlin. Gentleman in tailcoat. Pencil on brownish wove paper. Monogrammed lower left ... | ||||
3533 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Werner, Anton Alexander von 1843 Frankfurt a.d.O. - 1915 Berlin. Figure study with top hat. Pencil on brownish wove paper, with tear-off edge ... | ||||
3534 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Werner, Anton Alexander von 1843 Frankfurt a.d.O. - 1915 Berlin. Study of a man in his armchair. Pencil on laid paper. Monogrammed lower left ... | ||||
3535 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Werner, Anton Alexander von 1843 Frankfurt a.d.O. - 1915 Berlin. Study of a gentleman in profile. Pencil, heightened with opaque white, on ... | ||||
3536 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Werner, Anton Alexander von 1843 Frankfurt a.d.O. - 1915 Berlin. Bearded man. Pencil, heightened with opaque white, on brownish wove paper. ... | ||||
3537 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Werner, Anton Alexander von 1843 Frankfurt a.d.O. - 1915 Berlin. «Söhne des Herrn Fr. Wollner (sons of Mr Fr. Wollner)». Pencil, heightened ... | ||||
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2135 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Schaaff, Alexander Theodor 1875 Dresden - 1943 ebd. The Dresden Frauenkirche. Oil on canvas. Signed lower left. Verso old stamp. Minor paint ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2026 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Hölzel, Adolf 1853 Olmütz/Mähren - 1934 Stuttgart. Composition with figures. Pastel over pencil on velour paper. Signed lower ... | |||
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4371 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Kanoldt, Edmund Friedrich 1845 Großrudestedt - 1904 Bad Nauheim. «Brunnen im Walde - Bei Subiaco im Sabinergebirge (the well in the forest - ... | ||||
4431 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Werner, Anton Alexander von 1843 Frankfurt a.d.O. - 1915 Berlin. «Konradin von Hohenstaufen und Friedrich von Baden, das Todesurteil hörend ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2020 (Autumn Auctions Hölzel, Adolf 1853 Olmütz/Mähren - 1934 Stuttgart. Composition with figures. Pastel over pencil on velour paper. Signed lower ... | |||
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1244 (Autumn Auctions Antike Griechische Goldmünze mit Manschettenfassung Wohl Makedonien | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2130 (Autumn Auctions Calder, Alexander 1898 Lawtown/Philadelphia - 1976 New York. «Phonograph». Lithograph in colours. Numbered 74/75 lower left and ... | starting price: 900,- EUR | ||
Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2053 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Masjutin, Wassili Nikolajewitsch 1884 Riga - 1955 Berlin. «Der Goldene Hahn (the golden cockerel)». Portfolio with 15 coloured ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2148 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Dine, Jim Born 1935 Cincinnati. «Tool box 1», from the portfolio «Tool box». 1966. Serigraph on vellum. Signed lower middle ... | |||
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3008 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Biblia Germanica The Ninth German Bible or also known as the «Kobergerbibel». Printer Anton Koberger, Nuremberg, «Montag nach ... | ||||
3025 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Die Coss Author Christoph Rudolff, 1499 - 1545. Edited edition by Michael Stifel. Printer Alexander Behm von Lutomysl, ... | ||||
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3095 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Ravenna, Petrus von Italian humanist, lawyer and memory artist. L.A.S. Mainz 15.IX.1508. Three-quarter p. 4°. With seal traces and ... | ||||
3146 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Maret, Hugues Bernard 1763 - 1839. Duke of Bassano, French statesman. L.S. «Le Duc de Bassano». Brienne 31.I.1814. P. gr.-fol. ... | ||||
3153 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Königin Louise 1776 - 1810. Wife of Friedrich Wilhelm III. née Princess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. L.A.S. no location. and undated. ... | ||||
3160 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Franz I, Nachfolger Karl VII. 1708 - 1765. Successor of Charles VII, husband of Maria Theresa, founder of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. L.A.S. ... | ||||
3163 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Marie-Sophie, Zarin 1759 - 1828. Maria Feodorovna, born Princess Sophia Dorothea of Württemberg, second wife of the Russian Tsar Paul ... | ||||
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5503 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Hillingford, Robert Alexander attr. 1825 London - 1904 (?). Antiques dealer. Oil on canvas, relined. Unsigned. Verso inscribed «Hillingford» and ... | ||||
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5587 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Le Brun, Charles 1619 Paris - 1690 ebd. Alexander the Great's triumph over king Porus of India. Engraving. Unsigned. With multiple ... | starting price: 250,- EUR | |||
Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012 Modern Prints | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 5591 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Kanoldt, Alexander 1881 Karlsruhe - 1939 Berlin. Young gentleman. Lithograph. Inscribed «Probedruck I Ka» lower left as well as ... | |||
Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2051 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Pechstein, Hermann Max 1881 Zwickau - 1955 Berlin. E «Auf dem Lager (at the rest place)». Woodcut in colours. Signed and dated 1931 lower ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2078 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Derrière Le Miroir Alexander Calder. No. 141. Aimé Maeght Editeur, Paris 1963. With essays by James Jones and Michel Ragon. Eight ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2148 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Calder, Alexander 1898 Lawtown/Philadelphia - 1976 New York. E Five figures. Etching. On the margin signed lower right in pencil. ... | starting price: 1200,- EUR | ||
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4624 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Begas, Karl nach 1794 Heinsberg - 1854 Berlin. E After Karl Begas. Alexander von Humboldt. Oil on canvas, margin relined. Unsigned. ... | starting price: 3200,- EUR | |||
4693 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Koester, Alexander 1864 Bergneustadt - 1932 München. E Ducks on the water. Oil on canvas. Signed lower left. Restored. Provenance: ... |
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