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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1783 (Autumn Auction Decouver, (?) Stilllebenmaler der belgischen Schule Öl/Holz. In schlanker weißer Vase mit floralem Golddekor ... | ||||
1785 (Autumn Auction Desnoues, J. Stilllebenmaler Öl/Lw. Bukett aus strahlend weißen Rosen vor grünem Fond. O.l. monogr. sowie ... | starting price: 400,- EUR | |||
1867 (Autumn Auction Intlekofer, A. Stilllebenmaler Ende Öl/Lw. Küchenstillleben. Auf einer sandfarbenen Oberfläche ein erlegter ... | ||||
1927 (Autumn Auction Male, K. Stilllebenmaler Öl/Karton. Stiefmütterchenstrauß in gebauchter Vase vor dunklem Fond. U.r. ... | starting price: 250,- EUR | |||
1954 (Autumn Auction Müller, Erich Martin 1888 Berlin - 1972 Rothenburg ob der Tauber. Öl/Lw. Beschauliche Straßenszene in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, im ... | starting price: 600,- EUR | |||
2022 (Autumn Auction Schödl, Max 1834 Wien - 1921 ebd. Öl/Holz. Antiquitätenstillleben. Auf bestickter grüner Decke vor dunklem Hintergrund ... | ||||
2045 (Autumn Auction Stilllebenmaler Öl/Karton. In grüner Henkelvase üppiger Blumenstrauß mit Dahlien und Rittersporn. U.r. ... | starting price: 100,- EUR | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2136 (Autumn Auction Hanfstaengl Stilllebenmaler Öl/Lw. Reiches Blumenstillleben in gebauchtem Glaskrug vor dunklem Fond, ... | starting price: 500,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2145 (Autumn Auction Hueber, Luc 1888 Ste-Croix-en-Plaine - 1974 Straßburg. Öl/Hartfaser. In impressionistisch-expressivem Duktus gearbeitete ... | starting price: 800,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2164 (Autumn Auction Laugé, Achille 1861 Arsenz - 1944 Cailhau. Öl/Lw. Vase de fleurs. Im pointillistischen Duktus gearbeitetes Stillleben mit ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2195 (Autumn Auction Stilllebenmaler Um 1900. Öl/Lw. In Henkelvase Strauß üppig blühender Chrysanthemen. U.l. undeutlich sign. H. 46, | starting price: 300,- EUR | ||
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1805 (Spring Sale Stilllebenmaler 18./ Öl/Holz. Auf einem Holztisch in einem Weidenkorb üppiges Blumenstillleben mit Dahlien und ... | starting price: 700,- EUR | |||
1832 (Spring Sale Boentgen, (?) Stilllebenmaler 1. Hälfte Öl/Holz. Blumenstillleben. In zylindrischer Glasvase üppiger Strauß ... | starting price: 50,- EUR | |||
1850 (Spring Sale Dänischer Stilllebenmaler Öl/Lw. Blumenstillleben vor dunklem Fond mit Feuerlilien, Narzissen und Tulpen. Unsign. ... | starting price: 3500,- EUR | |||
1857 (Spring Sale Desnoues, J. Stilllebenmaler Öl/Lw. Bukett aus strahlend weißen Rosen vor grünem Fond. O.l. monogr. sowie ... | starting price: 800,- EUR | |||
1913 (Spring Sale Herrmann, G. Stilllebenmaler um 1900. Gouache. In gebauchter hellblauer Balustervase üppiger Strauß mit rosafarbenen und roten ... | starting price: 200,- EUR | |||
1925 (Spring Sale Huber-Andorf, Eduard 1877 Grafing - 1965 Germering. Öl/Hartfaser. Prunkstillleben mit edlen Silbergefäßen, einer blütengeschmückten ... | ||||
1928 (Spring Sale Iversen, Helen Vor 1870 Cismar - nach 1930 Berlin. Öl/Lw. Prunkstillleben mit üppigem Strauß weißer und rosafarbener Rosen in ... | ||||
1971 (Spring Sale Kopp, Mathilde 1836 (?) - (?). Öl/Lw. In gebauchter Henkelvase Blumenstillleben mit üppig blühenden Rosen sowie weißem und ... | ||||
1983 (Spring Sale Lischke, Emmy 1860 Elberfeld - 1919 München. Öl/Lw. Am Meer unter hohen Zypressen gelegener Friedhof in abendlicher Stimmung. ... | ||||
2054 (Spring Sale Rossmann, Augusta Charlotte Cornelie 1863 Gent - 1895 Basel. Öl/Lw./Karton. Stillleben mit Krug, daneben auf einer flachen Platte Äpfel und Zitronen. ... | ||||
2086 (Spring Sale Stilllebenmaler Öl/Karton. In grüner Henkelvase üppiger Blumenstrauß mit Dahlien und Rittersporn. U.r. ... | starting price: 200,- EUR | |||
2087 (Spring Sale Stilllebenmaler Öl/Lw. Blumenstillleben mit Stockrosen in verschiedenen Farben vor dunklem Fond. Unsign. ... | ||||
2088 (Spring Sale Stilllebenmaler Öl/Holz. Üppiges Blumen- und Früchtestillleben im Stil des 17. Jahrhunderts mit Dahlien, ... | ||||
2089 (Spring Sale Stilllebenmaler 19./ Öl/Lw. Auf einem Holztisch vor dunklem Fond in einer Schale Orangen. Dahinter eine ... | starting price: 800,- EUR | |||
2098 (Spring Sale Tschepiga, Konstantin Mikolajewitsch Geb. 1941 Poltawa. Öl/Lw. Stillleben im Schein einer brennenden Kerze auf weißer Tischdecke mit Trauben, Orangen, ... | starting price: 1200,- EUR | |||
2111 (Spring Sale Weber, H. Moderner Stilllebenmaler Öl/Lw./Karton. Blumenstillleben mit in hellblauer Balustervase üppig ... | starting price: 200,- EUR | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2200 (Spring Sale Scholz, (?) Düsseldorfer Stilllebenmaler Öl/Lw. Blumenstillleben. In Balustervase üppiger ... | starting price: 400,- EUR | ||
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2191 (Autumn Sale Stilllebenmaler Öl/Lw., doubl. Vor dunklem Fond üppiges Stillleben mit Mohnblumen, Rosen und Schmetterlingen ... | ||||
2226 (Autumn Sale Boentgen, (?) Stilllebenmaler 1. Hälfte Öl/Holz. Blumenstillleben. In zylindrischer Glasvase üppiger Strauß ... | starting price: 100,- EUR |
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