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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Image under artist's copyright. | 2188 (Autumn Sale Moderner Maler 2. Hälfte Öl/Lw. Abstrahierte figürliche Darstellung in pointillistischer Manier. Links oben ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2189 (Autumn Sale Moderner Maler 2. Hälfte Mischtechnik. Komposition in Blau, Rotbraun und Schwarz. Abstrahierte menschliche ... | starting price: 50,- EUR | ||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2192 (Autumn Sale Monogrammist C.R. Moderner Maler Öl/Lw. Auf einem Sofa liegender rothaariger Frauenakt. U.l. monogr. H. 45, ... | starting price: 65,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2195 (Autumn Sale Monogrammist R.P. Moderner Maler 2. Hälfte Mischtechnik. Abstrakte Komposition mit schwarzen und grauen Formen ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2223 (Autumn Sale Trzaska, Andrzej Moderner polnischer Maler Ende Öl/Lw. «Hafenlandschaft II». Der Danziger Hafen mit Bootsstegen ... | starting price: 150,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2235 (Autumn Sale Wössner, Stephan Moderner Maler Acryl und Öl/Holz. «Warholismus, since 1987. Goethe blau/gelb». Goethekopf nach ... | starting price: 200,- EUR | ||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2305 (Spring Sale Bonvecchio, Claudio Moderner Maler Öl/Lw. Abstrakte Farbkomposition in Blau, Weiß und Rot. U.r. unleserlich ... | starting price: 25,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2334 (Spring Sale Moderner Maler Öl/Karton. "Die Künstler". Zwei Männer und drei Frauen, an einer langen weißen Tafel vor grün ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2335 (Spring Sale Monogrammist C.R. Moderner Maler Öl/Lw. Auf einem Sofa liegender rothaariger Frauenakt. U.l. monogr. H. 45, ... | starting price: 125,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2336 (Spring Sale Monogrammist H.O. Moderner Landschaftsmaler 1. Hälfte Öl/Lw. Oberschreiber Hau im Riesengebirge. Blick auf ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2339 (Spring Sale Murad Moderner Maler 2. Hälfte Öl/Lw. Blick auf Häuser am Rande einer Stadt. U.r. sign. und (19)68 ... | starting price: 150,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2357 (Spring Sale Trzaska, Andrzej Moderner polnischer Maler Ende Öl/Lw. "Hafenlandschaft II". Der Danziger Hafen mit Bootsstegen ... | starting price: 300,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2362 (Spring Sale Wössner, Stephan Moderner Maler Acryl und Öl/Holz. "Warholismus, since 1987. Goethe blau/gelb". Goethekopf nach ... | starting price: 400,- EUR | ||
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2377 (Winter Sale Braun, A. Moderner Landschaftsmaler Öl/Lw. Blick entlang einer Landstraße mit vereinzelten Häusern. U.r. ... | ||||
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2275 (Autumn Sale Braun, A. Moderner Landschaftsmaler Öl/Lw. Blick entlang einer Landstraße mit vereinzelten Häusern. U.r. ... | starting price: 100,- EUR | |||
2312 (Autumn Sale Emerich Moderner Landschaftsmaler Mitte ÖL/Lw. Durchblick zwischen herbstlich belaubten Bäumen auf ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2729 (Autumn Sale Berger, Th. Moderner Maler 2. Hälfte Öl/Lw. "Erstickter Hai". U.r. sign. und 5-(19)74 dat. Verso sign. und ... | starting price: 200,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2730 (Autumn Sale Bittroni (?), Saludat Moderner Stilllebenmaler 2. Hälfte Öl/Lw. Auf taubenblauem Fond Korb mit Feigen. Im ... | starting price: 290,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2731 (Autumn Sale Bonvecchio, Claudio Moderner Maler Öl/Lw. Abstrakte Farbkomposition in Blau, Weiß und Rot. U.r. unleserlich ... | starting price: 100,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2747 (Autumn Sale Moderner Landschaftsmaler Öl/Hartfaser. Blick aus dem Schatten auf Schuppen eines Bauerngehöfts im hellen Sonnenlicht, ... | starting price: 200,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2748 (Autumn Sale Moderner Maler 2. Hälfte Gouache/Hartfaser. Abstrakte Komposition mit tierischen Elementen. U.r. unleserlich ... | starting price: 100,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2749 (Autumn Sale Moderner Maler 2. Hälfte Mischtechnik auf Aquarellpapier. Tanzende rote und blaue Linien, an der Spitze von ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2750 (Autumn Sale Moderner Maler Öl/Malkarton. Vielfigurige Prozession vor Kirchenportal. Unsign. | starting price: 120,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2751 (Autumn Sale Moderner Maler Mitte Öl/Holz. Brustbildnis von Pablo Picasso mit Baskenkappe und Stift in der Linken im ... | |||
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