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.
Carl Spitzweg |
There are 180 matches. | ||||
| ||||
In our current auction you will also find works by Carl Spitzweg. | ||||
Autumn Auctions 26.–28.11.2009 Russian Works of Art | ||||
0142 (Autumn Auctions 26.–28.11.2009) Seltenes Osterei mit Monogramm Kaiserliche Porzellanmanufaktur, St. Petersburg um 1900. Porzellan, glasiert, polychrom bemalt und goldstaffiert. ... | starting price: 3500,- EUR | |||
Autumn Auctions 26.–28.11.2009 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
2076 (Autumn Auctions 26.–28.11.2009) Bellermann, Ferdinand Konrad attr. 1814 Erfurt - 1889 Berlin. Öl/Lw. «El Cayambe». Über eine weite Ebene der freie Blick auf gewaltige schneebedeckte ... | starting price: 5000,- EUR | |||
Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009 Icons | ||||
1230 (Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009) Hochzeitsikone Moskau Ende | starting price: 8000,- EUR | |||
1235 (Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009) Hochzeitsikone Moskau um 1910. Öl/Holz und Silber 84 Solotnik. Halbfigurenbildnis Christi im Pantokrator-Typus. Getriebenes ... | starting price: 11000,- EUR | |||
1236 (Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009) Paar kleine Ikonen mit Oklad Russland Anfang | starting price: 3000,- EUR | |||
Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
1329 (Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009) Banté, Arthur Alexander 1887 Düsseldorf - 1951 (?). Öl/Lw. Amberg in der Oberpfalz. Blick über einen Kanal auf mittelalterliche Häuser und ... | starting price: 800,- EUR | |||
1527 (Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009) Nasmyth, Alexander 1758 Edinburgh - 1840 ebd. Öl/Holz. Burgruine. Inmitten eines Waldes eine verfallene und überwucherte Burg. Unsign. ... | starting price: 800,- EUR | |||
1623 (Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009) Winterhalter, Franz Xaver 1805 Menzenschwand - 1873 Frankfurt/Main. Öl/Lw. Porträt des Herzogs Friedrich Wilhelm Alexander von Württemberg. ... | ||||
Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1779 (Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009) Szpinger, Alexander von 1889 Weimar - 1969 ebd. Öl/Lw. Am Wegesrand. Herbstliche Birken in der Abendsonne. U.l. sign. und (19)24 dat. ... | |||
Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008 Dolls and Toys | ||||
0019 (Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008) Konvolut Spielkarten 19./ | ||||
Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008 Russian Works of Art | ||||
0156 (Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008) Ovale Schale Orest Fedorovich Kurlyukov, Moskau 1908 - 1917. Silber 84 Solotnik, emailliert und innen ausvergoldet. Auf ovalem ... | ||||
0157 (Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008) Sahnegießer Orest Fedorovich Kurlyukov, Moskau 1908 - 1917. Silber 84 Solotnik, emailliert und innen ausvergoldet. Auf ovalem ... | ||||
0158 (Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008) Bratinia Pavel Ovchinnikov, Moskau um 1875. Silber 91 Solotnik, emailliert. Auf konisch ansteigendem Rundfuß, gebauchter Korpus ... | ||||
0163 (Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008) Deckelschüssel mit Presentoir Alexander Kordes, St. Petersburg um 1856. Silber 84 Solotnik, innen ausvergoldet. Auf ovaler, mehrfach eingezogener ... | ||||
0169 (Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008) Zigarettendose Moskau 1889. Silber 84 Solotnik, innen ausvergoldet. Auf rechteckigem Stand, quaderförmiger Korpus mit ... | starting price: 500,- EUR | |||
Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008 Glass | ||||
0535 (Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008) Glasbild Schweiz Anfang | ||||
Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008 Books and Atlases | ||||
2457 (Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008) Historia Ecclesiastica Von Alexander Natalis. Neubearbeitete Auflage von Constantin Roncaglia. Neunter Bd. Ferrara 1762. Guter, ... | starting price: 200,- EUR | |||
Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008 Icons | ||||
1298 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Heiligenikone Russland um 1800. Tempera/Holz. Darstellung von 15 Heiligen in zweigeteiltem Bildfeld, darunter Hl. Damian, Hl. ... | ||||
Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008 Miniatures | ||||
1396 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Herrscher-Triptychon | ||||
Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008 Paintings and Drawings 15th to 18th Century | ||||
1444 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Rubens, Peter Paul nach Kopist Öl/Lw., doubl. Die Löwenjagd Alexanders des Großen. In der linken Bildhälfte Alexander ... | starting price: 8000,- EUR | |||
1518a (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Galien-Laloue, Eugène 1854 Paris - 1941 Chérence. Gouache. «Animation Boulevard des Capucines». Lebhafte Pariser Straßenszene nahe der ... | ||||
1648 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Roslin, Alexander Kopie nach Um 1900. Öl/Lw. Kopie von Jenny Burckhardt nach einer Kopie von Joseph Esperlin von 1768. Halbfigurenbildnis einer ... | ||||
Autumn Auction | ||||
0139 (Autumn Auction Teller des Bankettservice von Alexander III. Kaiserliche Porzellanfabrik St. Petersburg, Alexander III., Ende | starting price: 750,- EUR | |||
0141 (Autumn Auction Schnabeltasse Kaiserliche Manufaktur St. Petersburg, Alexander II., 2. Hälfte | starting price: 750,- EUR | |||
0154 (Autumn Auction Teller mit Landschaftsszene Kaiserliche Manufaktur St. Petersburg, Alexander I., 1. Hälfte | ||||
0156 (Autumn Auction Prunkvase Manufaktur Miklachevsky um 1860. Porzellan, glasiert, polychrom bemalt und goldstaffiert. Auf vier Rocaillefüßen, ... | ||||
0159 (Autumn Auction Paar Campana-Vasen Kaiserliche Manufaktur St. Petersburg, Alexander II., 2. Hälfte | starting price: 3500,- EUR | |||
0167 (Autumn Auction Teller aus dem Hochzeitsservice Alexanders II. E.Gallée, Frankreich um 1880. Porzellan, glasiert, polychrom bemalt und goldstaffiert. Auf Standring, leicht ... | ||||
0168 (Autumn Auction Zar-Alexander-III.-Gedenkmedaille Entwurf Armand Bargas, Frankreich Ende | ||||
Autumn Auction | ||||
0954 (Autumn Auction Hochbedeutendes Großfürstliches Diamantcollier Deutsch um 1880 - 1890. Silber, GG |
| ||||