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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2108 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Knijff, Wouter attr. 1605/07 Wesel - 1694 Bergen op Zoom. River landscape with fortified village. Oil on oak wood. Unsigned. H ... | starting price: 1500,- EUR | |||
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2120 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Beniscelli, Alberto 1870 Genova - 1952 Alassio. Reflections on the sea. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. Verso inscribed with the ... | ||||
2122 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Biedermeier landscape painter South Germany 1st quarter Monastery St. Trudpert in the Münstertal. Oil on zinc sheet. ... | ||||
2127 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Boehle, Fritz 1873 Emmendingen - 1916 Frankfurt a.M. Summer landscape with gathering clouds. Around 1890. Oil on cardboard. ... | ||||
2128 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Brendel, Albert Heinrich 1827 Berlin - 1895 Weimar. Pasture landscape with horses and cows. Oil on canvas. Signed lower left. Verso on ... | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2131 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Communal, Joseph Victor 1876 Châtelard-en-Bauges - 1962 Chambéry. «La Motte-en-Bauges». Savoyard landscape. Oil on panel. Signed lower ... | |||
2133 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Goldmann, Otto 1844 Berlin - 1915 (?). Alchemist in his laboratory. Oil on canvas. Signed upper right and dated 1882. H ... | starting price: 1400,- EUR | |||
2143 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «St. Märgen». Farm ensemble with pond. Pencil on wove paper. ... | ||||
2166 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Napier Hemy, Charles 1841 Newcastle-upon-Tyne - 1917 Falmouth. Fishing boat and cottage at the seashore. Oil on canvas. Signed lower ... | ||||
2168 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Romanticism painter Netherlands early Strollers and painter in front of a vast landscape overlooking the ... | starting price: 750,- EUR | |||
2181 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) ten Cate, Hendrik Gerrit 1803 Amsterdam - 1856 ibid. Ice skaters at a village church. Oil on panel, partly cradled. Signed lower left. ... | starting price: 1000,- EUR | |||
2187 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Zimmermann, Albert August 1808 Zittau - 1888 Munich. Hikers on the cliff in front of a raging mountain stream. Oil on canvas. Signed lower ... | ||||
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2190 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Mayer, Peter 1718 St. Blasien - 1800 Illumination of the Münsterturm (cathedral tower) of Freiburg ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 3002 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Dalí, Salvador 1904 Figueres - 1989 ibid. «Trajano joven». Yellow gold 18k, mounted on a black marble base. Signed on the ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3006 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Hofer, Karl 1878 Karlsruhe - 1955 Berlin. «Blumenwerfende Mädchen (girls throwing flowers)». Around 1924. Oil on canvas. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3009 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Matta, Roberto 1911 Santiago de Chile - 2002 Civitavecchia. Untitled from «Vivante Mortalité». 1973. Etching and colour ... | starting price: 180,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3010 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Miró, Joan 1893 Barcelona - 1983 Palma de Mallorca. Untitled from «Liberté des libertés». 1971. Colour etching on BFK Rives ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3017 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Picasso, Pablo nach 1881 Málaga - 1973 Mougins. Untitled from «Paul Eluard: Le Visage de la Paix». Offset on wove paper. Unsigned. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3034 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Antes, Horst Born 1936 Heppenheim, lives and works in Karlsruhe, Castellina and Berlin. Embracing couple. 1964. Drypoint on ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3036 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Antes, Horst Born 1936 Heppenheim, lives and works in Karlsruhe, Castellina and Berlin. Untitled from «Symbiosion». 1967. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3037 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) 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. | 3051 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Bosshart, Peter Born 1966 Lörrach, lives and works in Efringen-Kirchen. Two counterparts. «Zauberei (magic)». 2008. Oil on ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3052 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Bosshart, Peter Born 1966 Lörrach, lives and works in Efringen-Kirchen. «Blick (view)». Oil on canvas. Signed upper left. Verso ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3053 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Bosshart, Peter Born 1966 Lörrach, lives and works in Efringen-Kirchen. Egon. 2008. Oil on canvas. Unsigned. H 24, | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3055 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Bosshart, Peter Born 1966 Lörrach, lives and works in Efringen-Kirchen. «Beinhaart (tough hairy leg)». 2011. Oil on canvas. ... | starting price: 500,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3056 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Bosshart, Peter Born 1966 Lörrach, lives and works in Efringen-Kirchen. View through a window. Bosshart's reduced choice of ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3057 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Bosshart, Peter Born 1966 Lörrach, lives and works in Efringen-Kirchen. «Kritische Katze (critical cat)». Oil on canvas. Signed ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3058 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Bosshart, Peter Born 1966 Lörrach, lives and works in Efringen-Kirchen. «Weinglas (glass of wine)». Oil on canvas. Verso on the ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3064 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Brander, Lasse 1930 Stockholm - 2008 Inzlingen. «Bågar». Steel sheet, lacquered in red, on aluminium base. Signed on the ... | starting price: 300,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3067 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Brodwolf, Jürgen Born 1932 Dübendorf, lives and works in Kandern. «Paar vor Landschaft/Pompejanischrot (couple in front of a ... |
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