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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Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2131 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Beuys, Joseph 1921 Kleve - 1985 Düsseldorf. E «Honigpumpe am Arbeitsplatz (honeypump at work place)». Collage and offset prints ... | starting price: 500,- EUR | ||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 1152 (Autumn Auctions Beuys, Joseph 1921 Kleve - 1985 Düsseldorf. «Free International University». Serigraph on foil. Signed in the middle in felt-tip ... | starting price: 150,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1153 (Autumn Auctions Beuys, Joseph 1921 Kleve - 1985 Düsseldorf. «Ich mach doch lieber mit dem Küchentheater die Revolution als mit...(I'd rather ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1154 (Autumn Auctions Beuys, Joseph 1921 Kleve - 1985 Düsseldorf. «documenta 7». Offset illustration and serigraph writing on paper. Signed lower right ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1155 (Autumn Auctions Beuys, Joseph 1921 Kleve - 1985 Düsseldorf. «Volksentscheid (Proposition)». Offset lithograph. Multiple inscription. Signed ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 1993 (Spring Auctions Beuys, Joseph 1921 Kleve - 1985 D¸sseldorf. E ´Tafel I (plate I)ª. Serigraph. Signed lower middle in pencil. Unframed. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1994 (Spring Auctions Beuys, Joseph 1921 Kleve - 1985 D¸sseldorf. E ´Tafel II (plate II)ª. Serigraph. Signed lower middle in pencil. ... | |||
Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008 Modern Prints | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1890 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Beuys, Joseph 1921 Kleve - 1985 Düsseldorf. Siebdruck. «Ufo». Braunes Kreuz auf weißem Grund. Mit Bleistift o. Mitte sign. und ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 1567 (Spring Sale Beuys, Joseph 1921 Kleve - 1985 Düsseldorf. Multiple mit Filz und Holz. «Filzpostkarte» und «Holzpostkarte». Edition Staeck. ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2007 (Autumn Sale Beuys, Joseph 1921 Kleve - 1985 Düsseldorf. Multiple. Filz und Holz. «Filzpostkarte» und «Holzpostkarte». Edition Staeck. ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2540 (Autumn Sale Beuys, Joseph 1921 Kleve - 1985 Düsseldorf. Sieben Handzeichnungen, zwei Serigraphien und zwei Multiple. Darunter «documenta 7 ... | starting price: 10000,- EUR | ||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2327 (Spring Sale Beuys, Joseph 1921 Kleve - 1985 Düsseldorf. Multiple. «Joseph Beuys 7000 Chenes». Sechsseitiges Baumdiplom. Auf dem Titel Beuys ... | starting price: 150,- EUR | ||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2315 (Autumn Sale Beuys, Joseph 1921 Kleve - 1985 Düsseldorf. Postkarte. «Künstler für die SPD! Kitschpostkarte». O.l. sign. Min. besch. H. 14,5, ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2415 (Spring Sale Beuys, Joseph 1921 Kleve - 1985 Düsseldorf. Farbiger Offsetdruck. Brustbildnis des Künstlers mit von einem Tuch bedeckten ... | starting price: 70,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2416 (Spring Sale Beuys, Joseph 1921 Kleve - 1985 Düsseldorf. Postkarte. "Künstler für die SPD! Kitschpostkarte". O.l. sign. Min. besch. H. 14,5, ... | starting price: 100,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2417 (Spring Sale Beuys, Joseph 1921 Kleve - 1985 Düsseldorf. Farbiger Offsetdruck. Die künstlerische Vision des Jahr 2000 Problems. Mit Bleistift ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2900 (Autumn Sale Beuys, Joseph 1921 Kleve - 1985 Düsseldorf. Kunstdruck. Stehender weiblicher Akt mit hochgestreckten Armen. Mit Bleistift u.r. ... | starting price: 150,- EUR |
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